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The Huron Expositor, 1945-09-14, Page 7r;s, C YS Darri$eRk, Solicitor!., Etc, P*tdekII McConnett ^ II Glenn HAYS 8'?+ld'+QITII, ONT. ° Telephone 174 li• I. McLEAN Barrister, Solicitors Etc. S11AFORTH - - ONT.AIII'O Branch Office -- Remail ' Hensall ' Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 173 1. MEDICAL • c- SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with „complete and modern X-ray and other upto-date ;diagnostic and -therapeutics equipment. Dr. 1'. 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 Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month -from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W Res. 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Mose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitai, London,'Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday of each month. 63 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist . in Farm and Household iSales. i Licensed in Huron and Perth Counr ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. , W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD If you want to realize greater re- turns from your auction sales of live stock and farm equipment, ask those who know and have heard me. Fif- teen years' experience. Salts conn- • ducted anywhere. For sale 'dates, 1 Phone 28-7, Granton, at mar :expense.. 8979hf i LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. London, Lv. 9.00 Exeter 10.17 Hensall 10.64 ' Kippen 111,43 1 Brucefleld 10.55, 1 Clinton, Ar. 11.20 i SOUTH P.M. ; Clinton, Lv. 3.10, 1 Brucefield 3.32 Xippen 3.44 ' Hensall 3.53 + Exeter 4.10 - London, Ar. - 5.25 i r C.N.R. TIME TABLE I EAST + • A.M. P.M. I Goderich 6.15 2.30 Holmesville .. 6.31 2.50 Clinton 6.43 6.13 • Seaforth 6.59 3.21 + St. Columban 7.05 3.27 i Dublin , ......... 7.12 3.35 Mitchell 7.25 3.47 ° WEST Mitchell 11.2.7 10,33 Dublin 11.37 10.44 1 St. Columban 11.40 , Seaforth 11,61 10.56 Clinton 1'6.04 11.10 Goderieh 12.35 11.35 ' i C.P.R. TIME TABLE ' EAST P,M. Goderieh 4.35 , Meneset 4.40 McGaw 4.49 Auburn. 4.58 ' Blyth , 5.09 ' Walton 6.21 MeNaught ..... 5.82 , Toronto 9.46 WEST A,M.' Toronto 8.20 I P.M. , MeN tight .... ....... ........,12.04 :4 Walton • 1115. Auburn .......,.... • ., . a . di. L 12,80 j Mean* 1L47 .1 JEeneset ,. not 1 1000)00 1/Wt ...0,• ,. 0.4:0 .,y ! w !,R J°Y+Kr:, (Continued. from last week). This amazing piece of information gave Ruth a shock.. In her selfish absorption in Gloria and herself she hadn't thought of the servants and the inevitable toll of Christmas efts "Do you know, Jennie, I didn't buy any gifts before I came up here and I almost forgot, but I want to give you a present-" She was just about to offer money, and then something in the kind, stolid, face warned her that this would be wrong. "I'd like to give you something of my own that you like. If you'll just tell me what you want you can have any- thing of mine -any dress or hat or - well, just anything you like." The girl's eyes spread wide. "Anything?" "Yes, anything, that -is, if 1 ;have anything you like. If not I'll have to follow Professor Pendragon's exam- ple and give you money to buy your own gift," • "You've got such lots of - pretty clothes-" Ruth thought her wardrobe very limited, but waited. "There is one dress -not a party dress -I've always wanted one - there ain't any place to wear it, but if you could -do you really mean it -anything?" "Of course," said Ruth, expecting a request for one of her three pre- sentable evening, gowns. "Then I'd like that blue silk thing with the lots . of lace -.the thing you wear here in ,your own room." She pointed• to a negligee thrown over a chair by the dressing -table. "Take it; it will make me very hap- py to know that you have it." She tried to visualize Jennie in the negli- gee, but the picture was not funny, She turned her head away so that Jennie should mot see the tears in her eyes. "You'll most likely ,:be getting a lot of things yourself, Miss; a man's gone down to the village <for the mail. You'll be getting a lot of things from the city." "I'm afraid not; still I may get some letters' which will be welcome." "I'11 go down and see -he may be back, He went early." She was back ,in an incredibly short space of minutes bearing one letter, from Dorothy Winslow. "And Miss Mayfield wants to know if you'll come to her room. when You're dressed," 'said Jennie, who, seeing that Ruth was going to read her letter, left her with another hur- ried, awkward "thank you, Miss," de- livered through the door as she hur- ried off with her blue silk prize. Dorothy's Christmas letter fairly bubbled over with happiness, and with an affection for Ruth which she had never suspected, "It seems ages since you went way," she wrote, "and I'm just dy- ng to tell you everything -how Nels was awfully humble and admitted he's been a perfect silly over that imita- tion high siren, and then he was jealous -furiously jealous over your roses. It was'. bard not to tell him the truth, but 1 didn't -not until af- :erward, when he asked me to marry him.' Yes, he did! And we've done t. Neither of us had any money, but that didn't really make any dif- erence. He's always been able to buy his own cigarettes and so have I end there's no reason why we can't io it together just as well as apart. We've got the funniest little apart- ment on Thirty-fourth Street -just a room with an alcove and a bath and a titchenette. Nels is going to get an- ther place to work -one room some dace -very business -like and all that ort of thing and I'll work at home. But please do hurry back and have sinner with us sometime. You'll see. 1 can cook, But I must work, too, Ise Nels will get ever so many leagues ahead of me. And please have You delivered my message to he Dragon? You did give him Nels' message I know for Nets heard from bit and that man with the double name who is' s.o splendidly entertain- ing you over the holidays is going to buy -the picture. You must get back n time for the party we'll put on to celebrate when the cheque comes. You know I feel that you made it all happen," She chatted on over ten pages of rt school gossip that made Ruth ra- ther homesick, and eager to get back to New York, especially as the first abject of her visit had been accorn- lished. But had it been accomplish- ed? The snake was killed and Pro- lessor Pendragon was cured. To her the connection seemed obvious. Pro- essor Pendragon had been cured ho- use the object of George's faith had been destroyed and with it the mixed; born malaiiy which, through faith, he h�9Q kite "'Lipott the man who was his rival. But this did not accomplish all of Ruth's desire. There still remain e4 the Prince. Even though George's power over Pendragon bad been de - door. "Why, you're not .leaving?" "No; I only thought: I was. Chang- ed my mind again." stroyed, might he not still exercise I "Arid yee're quite well. The poor, the same influence over Gloria? And t dear Prince - has been quite frantic, would George calmly submit to the insult that had been Her whole trust was put upon him? now in Pendra gon. He had shown that he could fight. Hexing gone so far he must go further and drive away Prince Agii ipogue. Then every one would be hap py-that is, every one except herself and Terry. She was no longer sure that Terry loved Gloria: Probably he had loved her because no man could be indifferent to Gloria, but perhaps he had resigned himself tothe unro- mantic role of friend. He had sus- pected her of being interested in Pen- dragon for herself. That might mean anything - his thought might have been fathered by the hope that some one would remove Pendragon, one of his own rivals; or perhaps she had betrayed her love for him and he wanted to turn her attention toward another object, or perhaps -but men were such curious creatures and who' could tell? At least he did not Jove her which was all that really mat- tered now. Nels and Dorothy could go working and playing together through the future, but she must con- tent herself to her art; and cartoons! While she thought she was dress- ing, for she was really •very curious to see Gloria and hear what she had to say. The door of Gloria's room was half open and Ruth knocked and went inside at the same moment. GIoria was fully dressed and seemed to be in the midst of packing.' There were dark circles under her eyes as if she had not slept. "Ruth, I want you to do something for me,".was her abrupt greeting. Ruth waited for an explanation. "Will you?" ' "Of course, Gloria -anything." "I believe you would at that -you're an awfully nice child; sometimes I suspect that you're older than I am; but this is something rather nasty, so don't be too sure that you'll want to d -o it. I want you to tell Aggie that I can't marry him -that I must have been insane when I said I would, that the whole thing is utter- ly impossible -that it' would please me if he would go back to New York at once. I don't want to see him any • more," Ruth struggled to conceal her joy 'at 'this announcement, "Don't you think Gloria, that it -would be more effective if you told him yourself?" "No; and besides I don't want to see the bduite-he-lie- Oh, I can't bear to look at him -to remember everything-" "Suppose he doesn't believe me?" "He will" "You could write a note," "Then be wouldn't believe;, 'a note would be too gentle. He'd want to see me and talk, but if you tell him he'll know that it's final or I wouldn't have chosen to tell him through a third person. Will you do it?" "I was going to leave myself," ex- plained Gloria with a wave of her hand toward the evidences of pack- ing. "But I can't. George has disap- peared -absolutely disappeared-" "When -where?" "I said disappeared; that doesn't mean he left a forwarding address. He slipped off into the nowhere, sometime between midnight and morning and of course I can't move until we hear from him." "You can, too! Ruth was intense in her excitement. "You can -you've given up the Prince; the next thing is to give up George. He's been the cause of all your troubles. I know you don't believe it, but ho has -he's hypnotized you -and if he's disap- peared you ought to be glad of it." Gloria looked at her curiously from between half-closed lids. "Why do you think I won't believe you? I don't believe or disbelieve, I know that I have been hypnotized, or mad, or ill -something. I woke up this morning quite new- Perha ,s it's religion-" She laughed with something of her old careless mirth. "Anyway I'm quite sane now, and Ili do want to get back to New York so that I can begin rehearsals in Terry's new play.. I feel like work- ing hard, like beginning all aver again- I feel --so-so free, that's the word, as if I had been in ,prison -a prison with mirror walls, every one of which reflected a distorted vi- sion of myself. That's all I could see -myself. always" myself and always wrong." "Mayr 4 come In?" It was Angella at the still half -open be wedded for life to such art -newspaper He's so anxious to see you for him- self before he will be assured that you're really all right, after the shock last night. He's waiting for you now. The other men have gone off on a hike through the snow. John has such a passion for exercise -afraid of getting stout, though he won't ad- mit it. I told the Prince that I would• try and send you down 'to him," "I can't go now, Ruth will go dawn and talk to him." "Ruth? But he wants you." A sign from Gloria counselled Ruth to go now before the discussion, and she slipped out unnoticed by Angela whose blue eyes were fixed on Gloria awaiting explanations. Prince., Aglipogue was ,,not difficult to find. She could hear his heavy pacing before she had reached the bottom of the stairs. • He stopped abruptly when he saw her approach- ing, waving his cigarette frantical%' with one hand while he twisted his moustache with the other. "Gloria, Miss Mayfield, she is well; you have news from her? She is coming down?" "Miss Mayfield is well, but she is not coming down just now. She wants to be alone, 'but she sent me-" It was impossible.to .tell him. Much as she 'hated the man she did not quite have the courage to deliver Gloria's message without preliminar- ies. "Yes? Yes? -speak, tell me; she is ill, is it not?" There was a nervous apprehension in his voice and manner that made Ruth suspect that the news would not be altogether unexpected. at 0hd 0000Kair w404 ; ou and A, 0.00' c u if P4.76241 atrilt to °Hiar Qr i. nt foie w ' out t . tR; 'sge It 'Wag »1i4,' bit Ar could kink of .,p.' oder 'wad. to tela; it. 1JHWelcome Olathe are oltly Mao mere gay by any,- ;;ef4rt to soft”; their harshness. - His cigarette dropped 'unnoticed :Up- on nnoticedr1tp- on the rug and his jaw dropped ip. a. stupid 'way that made him look like a great pig, One part of Runt's brain was really sorry for him, for he hath doubtless been fond of Gloria in his own way; the other half of her brain wanted to laugh, but. she only stood with bent head, as if, having struck him she was waiting for his retalia- tion. It came with a rush as soon as he had assimilated the full mean- ing of her words: "1 do not believe -it is a plot -she would not ,send a message such as that to me -it is the work of that Riordan- He is' jealous- I will sue her for breach of promise -one can do that, is it not?" "Women sometimes• sue men for breach of promise," said Ruth, who was quite calm now, "but men sel- dom sue women; besides, you can't sue Gloria, because she has no money." "No money?" He laughed and lit another cigarette to give point, , to his carelessness and unbelief. "You say she has no money? With a house on Gramercy Park, she is poor?" Behind his words and his nonchal- ant air Ruth caught the uneasiness in his small eyes and knew that she had struck the right note. "It is true that she has a 1?ouse on Gramercy Square, but it takes her entire income to pay the taxes. She got thee' hous from'her second hus, band; the third was more careful. He only gave her a small income, which, of course, she loses when • she re- m arries." For a moment he stared at her in- credulous, but there was nothing but honesty in her face. "It is the truth, you are speaking? Come, let us sit and talk -have a cig- arette? No? You do not smoke? I r#10. -of 1,9 1 :T :stn• tzar O., She lopko4; nt lis,, 1p .he, his' fat facet itis a7S1;r ;broFvp was ei ted:-'tP ;telt` 'T .th. . what 'she tialzi,lght a laid ane Ek W. hand on hera� with a, fan 1litazr • g,satli 'e and • involuntarily she drew back, a ''it something unclean had touched Tier IIe saw but pretended not to see. He had an object to achieve and could not afford to be sensitive. She un- derstood and thought it all out 'before she spoke. If she followed her 'm pulse he would cause trouble, or an noyance .to Gloria at the least. If she told him the truth he would be- lieve her and would go away without further urging. Evidently he had. thought that Gloria had money, and Gloria, to whom money meant noth- ing, had never thought, to tell hint anything of her affairs. It was a re- pulsive task but Ruth decided to give him the information he wanted. "You must understand," she said, "that Gloria is merely a professional woman, an actress, not an heiress. She has no money except what she earns. One of her husbands gave her the house on Gramercy Park.. A year later she married again and when she was divorced from her last husband he settled on her a small income - hardly sufficient to keep up the house when she is not working. If she marries again she loses even that.'" She rose to leave him,' having fin- ished with her mission, but he caught her hand, "You are speakingthe tr uth, Miss Ruth.? She drew away her hand without answering,,. "But you? Perhaps you have been helping her?" "I have even less than Gloria." His amazed lack of finesse -his ap- palling vulgarity stunned her into making a reply. "There is a train in the morn - vols can Fai h;s .4110 14:7044 ,t T;ha"nk Y,pt! I s via1 ed Me a groat deal: Ili zine al4 g'SeiuX if But 11/4124.1.4 not w,1 of his remarks to look at him ;for. on, en,, dei He was evena r 1Porse tba�. she, supposed. F,.vident1r• he ha!d net' ed for Gloria at all? and .she hjn„ f f„ ways conceded to shim that m!ukl:4a; that Gloria hvo touched " some .l small bit of fineness in his sordid tore. She dared not return to Gloria .1n then, for she knew that Gloria in 'heir usual frank manner had doubtlei30 told Angela of her changed Plans;",ems en now Angela might be protesting with her and urging her not to ,ibis pose of a real title so carelelasiy. Rite' en without the title Angela.wouldnot approve of the biroken, engagement. for it had been announced in her house; therefore, she had, in a way, been sponsor for it, and would want to see it go through to a successful conclusion, (Continued Next Week) • I, SAVE THAT TEAR Net curtains, ' especially if they? have been, well starched, .are liable to tear as you push them on the cur- tain rod. • ,Prevent that by slipping the finger of an old' glove -on even a piece of paper -over the 'sharp end of the curtain rod. Your curtains will then slip on easily and without a tear. To keep your bedroom cur- tains clean longer, pin them back ,at night with clothes pins. tOSTOMER� Mµ 90 ME AAV0911.1w SOVINV'R8 tAIG� yHARM10GOT' ,S OVER• NOW INE WAOR 110401SgVSRy801 SAy_. O0'R el KNOW y'£ N018v1 �t 5 THIS 51.1711009 10-4391 a ()tics.t "SLIP INE A. tp0VLS OF SHIRTS 8ROTHERr GO? "HAVEN'T jeogR TNEOVNTEHt.. ?RICE. 'r �R ;- 1HIN�'ta 1'1.1. PAY ANY .�.yoyoWvfcor a Let's not deceive ourselves by the belief that the danger is over -just because the war is won. And let's remember that inflation is always followed by deflation with its misery of bankrupt businesses, mortgage foreclosures and unemployment: WE HAD IT BEFORE a- Orad♦l�rws♦ THE BUBBLE Q�``�y 0.±•♦ 1920 • BURST t)• ♦ PRICES • ®se ' 0.'� UNEMPLOYM Nit♦`•MPED 4® ♦OP. FOLLOWED t.° ••0.- 1918 19221I41 • N.LE1 k ,.ory,AVFJrAcArn It's your job and your savings that are at stake. The danger of inflation, with its black shadow -deflation, -will remain as long as goods are Scarce and insufficient to meet demands. That may be 6 mon't'hs, 12 months, 18 months. Only time will tell. As quickly as controls are unnecessary, they are dropped. After nearly 6 years of war, industry Cannot switch over to normal production of civilian goods by a snap of the fingers. Reconversion takes time. The whole system of raw materials, l abor and production has to be re -geared. * tit rh In the meantime, price ceilings, rationing and other controls are the safeguard fore/ every one of us. It's everybody's responsibility to help make them work. stee' Keep on watching your buying. Don't rush to buy scarce good% Keep on saving your money. Put It Into Vinery bonds and Wor Savings certificates, Keep on supporting wage and prise controls, and rationing. Keep on fighting Inflation and Its black shadow ... deflation. i�sts t t, Issued by rub Gevs l ot,Gnna¢p;to emPhustss the, Importance p ii�}Lso'u (urthltr tsi sole to lh. oil df It�thr um, end deflation and rtMsetdileysNwi eI 4r+ Y.: it,