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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1950-03-31, Page 71.7 eet CHAPTER KIII Ann caught her breath and. looped at him, shocked and incred- ulous, "Row?" she asked after a mo- ment, ,and •Tracy nodded in an- swer nswer to the look in her eyes. "Suicide," he said grimly. "Ohl, no!" in a small shocked whisper. 'An overdose of a sleeping medicine, taken by accident,' wilt be the story in the paper as brief es we can make it," Tracy told -her quietly. "She had been in ill health tor some time -you know the line." Ann was very still for a" mo- ment and then she said uneve niY, "Poor Julie!" Tracy studied, her curiously. 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You can depend on Dodd's.ts5 iy, and once she tried to )till you." he said grimly. "Yet now You can be sorry for her?" Ann lifted her head proudly, un- ashamed of the tears in, her eyes'. "Julie -wasn't ready to. blame," she said swiftly. "She was -neu- rotic, unhappy. She was --insane 'about Lyn -and he -well, he's. pretty much of a heel -as we both know now." "As I've always known he was," stated Tracy flatly. "Then it, must upset you a lot to think of him . being married to Lissa,"- Ann offered with delicate insolence "Lica can take care of herself in a situation like that," Tracy told her flatly. "Anyway, Fra.zier's nuts about her and I've an idea Lissa is going to revenge some of her sex who haven't known how to handle him. I -had dinner with them last night" Tracy went on, his eyes on the salt shatter he was moving about the table as though he had been playing chess with it, "Julie -took poison late yesterday afternoon. The nurse who takes care of the baby found her and managed to get an ambulance 'and get her to the hospital. It was touch-and-go for a few hours -they thought up until late this afternoon that Julie would live. But - she got away from them, at five -twenty this afternoon -less• than an hour ago. • "Lissa- telephoned me yesterday as soon as she learned what Julie had done. .She asked me to come to dinner, and -talk things over with Lyn. He was worried sick for fear that something would leak out and that the Board would fire him, after all; and with a, thing', like this hounding him, .he was pretty desperate, I went, and be- came clean. I honestly think he told me the truth-" Ann smiled thinly. He can be very charming," she said coolly. "When it suits his purpose." Tracy loopedat her almost sternly. "You think it would have served some •good purpose for me to have broadcast •through the papers' `that Julic'"•Barton was so insanely in love with Dr. Lyn Frazier that, after having staged a scene at his home yesterday afternoon, this went back to her own home and took poison? What earthly good could it have done anybody to -- shame the Fraziers, to humiliate Dan Barton, to hang an ugly story on their baby, a story she would never quite outgrow -just so that the gossip mongers and scandal bearers could have a juicy tidbit to roll about their evil tongues for a few days?" he demanded almost savagely. Ann studied him coolly for a lona, moment. "You have chang- ed" was her only comment. He looked badgered and bewil- dered, but he tried hard to speak ligi?}3.'.' "For the better, I hope?" . Fm • not sure," she answered him quietly. "When I first came to work on the paper, you were all for broadcasting all the news re- gardless of where the effects might hit. Remember the first hint, you had of Julie Barton's affair with Lyn, when you ordered me to go out and get the story -all of it, because our readers were entitled to it? Whatever became of that Tracy Driscoll, I wonder?" Your Business Directory LEGAL McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS County Crown Attorney SEAFORTH, ONT. • Telephone 174 A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phone 781, Seaforth SEAFORTH - ONTARIO OPTOMETRIST M. ROSS SAVAUGE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses lit- e& Oculists' prescriptions accur- ately filled. Phone 194, Evenings 120, Seaforth. VETERINARY J. O. TURNBULL, D.V.1'i., V.S. Main Street - Seaforth' PHONE 105 AUCTIONEERS MEDICAL Tracy colored .and looked like an. abashed small boy, "Hadn't you heard? ale met a small 'enchanting person • named Ann Clayton, who took Wm •off his feat, and injected a bit of the milk of .human •kindness. into •a heart he didn't know the had until he dis- covered he'd given it to het,'" he told her gently. ' Ann's eyebrows went up a little, just as though her heart was not beating like, mad. "Oh, that could not be the same Tracy •Driscoll," she 'protested.. "That is, unless he's bees taking lessons front Lyn Frazier - and I wouldn't like it if I thought he had." "Look. Ann," Tracy said dog- gedly, "you know darned well that I love you-" But Ann flung up pretty hands, pains outward, and said swiftly, "Please! Let's not go into that again! I'm• afraid I'm a little bor- ed by that record!" Tracy was angry now, his jaw set and hard, his eyes blazing. "For two cents, I'd, turn you across my knee right here and whale some sense into you!" he told her recklessly. Ann nodded thoughtfully. "It's a twist in the lines," she admitted judiciously. "But I'm not sure it's an improvement. Mter all, that caveman stuff is terribly overdone, don't you think?" Grimly Tracy studied her, and' then he asked shortly, "Well, then, what lines would you suggest?" Ann's laugh was brittle. "One you could never possibly put over, so there's no use your trying it! Simple sincerity and honesty - shall I draw you a diagram?" Once more Tracy studied her for a moment without speech. And then he said grimly, "Well, 'now that we're :being frank, perhaps I might be permitted to point out that your own Iittle line is a nit frayed -the gay little sophisticate isn't you, Ann! You do it very badly." Her face burned, but before she could answer him, Nick arrived with their. dinner. And paused to chat a moment, asking about- "the grandmama," and when he had gone, Tracy suggested politely; "How is 'the grandenama,' by the way?" "Having the time of her life," Ann answered, attacking her din- ner just as though she was really as hungry as she should have been. "She's found an apartment she adores, bought Andrew and Mar- tha a little farm and installed them on it, and it's hard to tell who's the most excited 'about it, Sarah or Andrew and Martha. Janie likes the new apartment, too. It's small, only has one bed- room, but Sarah says she's enter- tained house guests all her life and now she's going to yisit instead of being visited." Tracy looked; startled, "Only one bedroom? Then what becomes of you?" Ann lookedysp at him with a po- lite pretense of surprise. "Oh, I'm enlisting in the W. A. C.," she told him cheerfully. "Just as soon as I finish serving out my thirty days notice to the Courier." "In the W.A.C.?" protested Tracy, unbelieving. , "The Woman's Army Corpse -- hadn't you heard?" asked Ann gently. Tracy was half out of his seat, his eyes blazing. . "You'll' do nothing of the sort!" •he protested, dazedly. "The only problem," Ann went on as though he hadn't spoken, "is Junior.. He told me confidentially he wouldn't like an apartment, and Sarah has only three rooms, and Junior is growing so fast that he would wag his tail once and wreck the place. So I suppose the only thing for him is; a boarding kennel -I'm afraid he's not going to be very happy there -maybe you could suggest something?" She said it brightly, as though they had been the most casual ac- quaintances discussing a problem of only momentary importance. Tracy ran his fingers through his dark red; hair' and said .sharp - 1y, "What's all this nonsense about your joining the W.A.C.? I won't have it!" Ann's smile was a delicate in- sult. "More caveman stuff? You nev- er.learn, do you?" she suggested sweetly. 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The bottom photo shows a crew of men at work with a winch, drawing the trailer back onto the road. ever to do with my affairs=" "Listen, you!" said "Tracy so loudly that several people turned from the bar to look at him in lively curiosity, and he lowered his voice. "See here, Ann, all this is crazy business. You know darned well that I love you, and that I want to marry you-" "You've certainly managed to keep that a secret -remember the night Lissa wired us she was mar- ried, and Sarah tried so hard to play Cupid? You balked like a- like an Army mule at the very thought of .getting married to me-" Ann reminded him. J. B. HIGGINS PHONE 138 . SEAFORTH Authorized Surge Service Dealer "And you and Sarah both knew why," he told her violently. "It was because I was afraid I couldn't make you happy. Because I was afraid I couldn't take care of you the way you deserved. I knew that ----once you were really mine, I couldn't go on living if I lost you -if you -walked out on me -because I wouldn't have any- thing to live for." "But if I loved you, why should I walk out on you?" she demand- ed sharply. "I don't know -it's -well, I sup- pose it's chiefly because nothing really swell ever happened to me that didn't-•ha.ye to be paid for in painful coin!" he admitted wryly, his .eyes bitter, and bleak with memories that were not happy. "Judging by what happened to me in the past, I guess I sort of took it for granted that -the happiness and the delight of having you could only be paid for by the mis- ery and agony - of losing you - after a little while. And -4 felt it would be easier to -give you up without ever really having' you - than to -lose you -afterwards." She stared' at him now, every trace of anger and fight melting away from her, her wide eyes filled with tears. "Tracy -you poor lamb!" s said huskily. "What a rotten time you must have had -to be so ter- ribly afraid of happiness!" He nodded grimly. "f guess that sums it up - I've always been afraid - a little suspicious - of happiness; usually the price tag's prettyigh _and -I wasn't sure 1 could afford it -not this time." "My darling," she said huskily. "Will you please marry me, so I can -make you happy and -teach you not to be afraid any more?" He looked at her with humility so new that it was, deeply' touch. ung_ and• said very low, "Would yosl, dearest?" "I'd -adore to," she told him and smiled through the tears, He leaned forward and kiaaed her, completely oblivous to anyone who might be looking on. In fact, in that moment, he and Ann for- got there was anyone else on earth save the two of them, For a moment that"kiss endured and then, in quick alarm, he pro- tested, "But the;-W.A:C., Ann -you -you won't lea0e me?" 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Whether you want a tractor or a washing -machine, livestock, a new building or road repairs, you will be wise to talk it over as soon as you can with Jack Irvin, Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Hensall. On completion of a 1,150 mile pipeline, it will take 26 days to move a barrel of oil between Ed- monton and Superior, Wis. Seaforth Shtii ►rooms See' Dr. tiarbuirn meat any outer time; 4I,;f Ialxeter r; of the dark. "I can aid the war effort on the home front -homes are terribly important, you know, arid - you are fond of babies, Tracy?" she remembered to ask in quick alarm. Such a look of radiance came into his eyes that she felt humb- led. and at the same time deeply proud that she could bring such a look upon him. "Fond of 'em? I'm mad about 'em." said. Tracy with simple fer- vor. Ann beamed at him contented- ly. "Then I'll do my bit by the war effort by raising a family," she told him happily, and her voice shook a little. "Oh, darling, dar- ling -what fools we've been - to waste so much time -when we might have been so happy toge- ther!" "We'll not waste another min- ute," he told her simply, and his hand held hers tightly. "Tomor- row, darling?" Sire leaned forward and kissed him and said, her Voice shaken with magic, "Tomorrow, my clear- est." And .Nick, watching them from the:, door of the kitchen• turned and went hack, carrying the tray on which was their dessert, knowing flies probably there had never been a aline when they were less inteiettted in food than at this moigeht. (VIE END) Will -Power Pays Off Will -power pays off when it comes to leaving the vegetables alone while they are cooking. When the lid is off the pot, valu- able vitamins and minerals escape and the cooking is prolonged. With the lid on the food is not only more nourishing, it is more tasty as well. Fun Outdoors Children need plenty of exercise in the open air all year 'round. 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