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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1950-10-20, Page 7'i CHAPTER I11 WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Lisbeth Carmichael lived alone with her mother, Gay, who had been divorced from Bob Ferris, before he was sent to prison. Gay had been going with Reid Terry, who Lisbeth loathed. One day visiting Dev. vine, fashion authority, Lisbeth SURGE MILKERS DAIRY MAID Hot Water Heaters .1. B. HIGGINS PHONE 56 r 2 BAYFIELD Authorized Surge Service Dealer met Joe Everton, whose father was head of a farm implement business. He asked for a din- nor and show date the next night. Not until later did it occur to Jon that she had said "would be," not "is." Abruptly she was smiling,' her hand outstretched to his. "This is where I live." Jon's fingers closed around hers warmly, hard. He felt absurdly let down because 6hey had reach- ed their destination so quickly, be- cause, obviously, she wasn't go- ing to asic him in, "But I'll see you again." it was 'a statement, not a question. "I've got to see you again! How about tomorrow? How about dinner -gat seven, shall we say? And we could see a ehow." He thought her fingers returned the pressure of his own. He thought there was a queer breath- lessness in her low voice, saying, "I'd like that." But she was gone before he was quite sure'. . Letting herself into the fourth - floor apartment she and her e Daily Remin.-er e OCTOBER 1950 Paici4- /few- Protea- CANgDA sA�iNGS $oNDS ;tow- 40-vezdad. Phee. frJ.�2 4f61 ".e7' oda eeffe, pre7lta#OURAPCP4d wag. 4")#€.40 -*ace - SBWIO , 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. Phones: Office 173, Residence 781 SEA.FORTH - ONTARIO MUSIC TEACHER STANLEY J. SMITH, A.T.C.M. Teacher ,of PIANO, THEORY, VOICE TRUMPET Supervisor of School Music Phone 332-M - Seaforth 4319-52 VETERINARY J. O. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S. D. C. MAPLESDEN, D.V.M., V.S. Main Street - Seaforth '"PHONE %5 T. R. MELADY, D.V.M., V.S. Main Street - Dublin PHONE 80 OPTOMETRIST JOHN E. LONGSTAFF Optometrist Eyes examined. Glasses fitted. Phone 791 MAIN ST. - SEAFORTH Hours: 9-6 Wed. 9-12.30; Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and House- hold Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; sat- Isfaetion guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. EDWARD W. ELLIOTT "'Licensed Auctioneer Correspondence promptly answer- ed. nswered. Intmedlnte arrangements can be made for sale dates by phoning 203, Clinton. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. JOSEPH L. RYAN Specialist in farm stook and pimento and household b'itecte. Satisfaction guaranteed. tteettaed in Huron and Perth Coutitlell., " For particulars and open dates, write or phone JOSEPH L RYAN, R. R. 1, Dublin. Phone 44) r S, Dublin WOO MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. MCMASTER, B.A., M.D. Internist P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon . Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Wednesday and Sun- day. EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments made in advance are desirable. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon ' IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: , Office 5-W; Res. 5-3. Seaforth DR. M. W. STAPLETON DR. ROSS HOWSON Physicians and Surgeons Phone 90 Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER 53 Waterloo St. South, Stratford. Eye, Ear, Nose and,'Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. • Late assistant New York Opthal- mei, and Aural Institute, Moore - field's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Seaforth, third Wednesday in every month, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 - Hensali CHIROPRACTIC D. H. McINNES Chiropractic - Foot Correction COMMERCIAL HOTEL Monday, Thursday - 1 to 8 p.m. ACCOUNTING RONALD G. McCANN Accountant CLINTON - ONTARIO Phone 561 Rattenbury St. E. C.N.R. TIME TABLE GOING EAST (Morning) Goderich (leave) Seaforth Stratford. (arrive) (Afternoon) Goderich (leave) Seaforth Stratford (arrive) GOING WEST (Morning) Stratford (leave) Seaforth Goderich (arrive) (Afternoon). (le'ave) . Stratford 044 mother'shared, Lisbeth heard: vote" es, 'Gay's and a man's. Recogniz- ing those slightly mocking mascu- line tones as she slipped out of her coat in the beltway, Lisbeth was aware of a eharp upweiling of distaste. 16 Reid Terry! What Gay saw in the man had never been apparent to her daugh- ter. Lisbeth despised his sleek good looks, his brittle, sardonic humor. She would have gone to her own room to await his de- parture, had not her mother's voice stopped her in mid -Hight: "Lisbeth, Darling, is that you?" Lisbeth went into the living - room because there was nothing else to do. She amid at Gay, and greeted Reid politely for her mother's sake. Only one lamp was lit in the exquisitely furnished room, its dim glow falling- on the warm rusts and browns of fabrics, the pale, dull wood of modern furniture. Gay and Reid sat side by side on a low couch. Gay was wearing a house gown of palest ivory, high -necked, long-sleeved, classically simple. She was so lovely it made Lisbeth's throat ache a little. In that light Gay Ferris might have been twenty instead of al- most twice that. Her hair was much lighter than Lisbeth's, a true golden shade, and her eyes were a deep, purplish -blue. Her skin seemed as vital and glowing as Lisbeth's own, and if considerably more time and effort were re- quired to keep it that way than Lisbeth would 'have dreamed of lavishing on hers -well, that was Gay's affair. Nor did she begrudge the money paid to a skilled mas- seuse, or the hours of physical discomfort required to keep her figure slender, but delicately, ma- turely rounded. Now she exclaimed, drawing her daughter down to the arm of the couch, "Sweet, you look positively bedraggled! Your 'stockings are a mess. You shouldn't walk in this beastly weather"--a.•faint quaver marred the smooth flow of her voice, but she smiled bravely - "even if we are practically desti- tute." estitute." • Reid lifted his glass to Gay, "That's the spirit, darling. Car- ry on. Keep up a front if it kills you. After all, you've been broke before," Reid said. Lisbeth wondered when Gay had heard about Bob Ferris. Perhaps Reid had told her. There was a sadistic streak in his nature; he always seemed to revel in being the bearer of bad news. Gay Found Out That Her Income Had Stopped "Don't mind me," Gay pleaded. Her tone was light, but beneath the lightness was a note of panic. Lisbeth could sense that, being .so close to Gay, knowing. her so well. She felt, in that moment, older than her mother, stronger, cur- iously protective toward her help- lessness, her hidden fears. Gay said bitterly, "I hate Bob Ferris! He •always was a fool." "For being dishonest -or get- ting caught?" Reid inquired, one eyebrow quirked in bhe supercil- ious way Lisbeth disliked so acutely. "Both! And for several other reasons, which we won'•t go into at the moment. But he was gen- erous about alimony. I've never denied that. When I remember how Steve Butler fought against even the tiny settlement that judge allowed me . . . " Lisbeth wished, poignantly, that her mother wouldn't speak that way about former 'husbands. It made her sound -cheap. The fierce young flame of Lisbeth's loyalty flared, hotly at the very thought. Gay wasn't cheap. She was won- derful. She was sweet and kind and gracious. She had been -un- fortunate in her marriages. Ex- cept the first one. Gay had loved Mike deeply, sincerely. It was the sort of love, Lisbeth told herself staunchly, that would have gone on and on through the years, if only Reid Terry was drawling, "Per- haps it would have been kinder if he'd been less generous. As it is, you've grown soft, Gay darling, accustomed to luxury. And habits like that are hard to break, as I've learned from experience. Since you were doomed to be plunged from the sunny heights of a very generous alimony to the gloomy depths of no alimony at all . . . "You're such a comfort to 'me, darling, so helpful." But Gay's SOLUTION TO. BOXWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Scent 1. Sordid 4. Heart 2. Exalt 7. Boo 3. Tutor 8. Usage 4. Here 10. Roast 5. Arm 11. Ramrod 6. Too 15. Odd 7. Bland 16. Ostler 9. Art 19. Intern 12. Arroyo 22. Rogue 13. Rigid 23. Dude 14. Dwell 25. Outdo 17. Snooze 26. Cello 18. Later 27. Yodel 20. Nectar 80. Sot 21. Eclat A.M. 31. Zircon 24. Upset 5':40 34. Anthem 28. Onward 6:20 37. Wed 29. Eider 7.16 38. Stare 32. Impose P.M. 40. Polka 33. Colic 8.00 41. Torso 35. Nettle 8.46 42. Rare 36. Heron 4.40 46. Light 38. Solid 46. Secede 39. Angel A.M. 49. Linden 43. Aerate 10.45 52. Rue 44. Elegy 11,86 .63. Dulcet 47. Enact 12.90 6¢. Arena 48. Eject PsM. 57. Comic 50. Itch 9.86 68. Toy 61. Dim 59. North 54. Urn. 60. Title 55. Cur 1,Q21 (arrive) .. r ....... 11.50 aa�a'u�a tone was tth4llt�I4 a0Xed Plain v�,ly, *4,4 any conatruetive $ugtet?l4•tut fer?„ I. "You might go up to Slug Sil#g on visiting day and Tann B00'0ad,, Y.ice. He rhas a Mach 0040 heed for business than I. Qr" Ugidaet I his empty glass on a low table beside him and .l'aid.'bis"hand light- ' ly. affectionately, over (,lay's IfYou might marry me." Gay's laugh was delicately de-, risive. "How touching, Reid. The supreme sacrifice, I take it?" "Not at all. I think it might work out very well. At least, we amuse each other, and that's more than I can say for a great many married couples I know. There's just one obstacle." "I know," Gay said with elabor- ate naivete, "but why speak of money at a time like this? We could be so 'happy in a little walk- up alkup flat, you going out to work each morning and coming home, •tired but exalted, at night, to a deli- cious dinner I'd prepared with my own hands." Reid lifted one of those hands to his lips with an expertness that sickened Lisbeth. She slipped un- obtrusively from the arms of the couch. They wouldn't miss her. She closed her bedroom door on the sound of their laughter, of Reid's voice saying, "So you spurn a poor man's offer of honest matri- mony?" and Gay's, answering, "Darling, much as I adore you, I'm afraid you aren't the stuff of which husbands are made." • FT Gay Was Really Worried About Ferris Lisbeth's room was small and rather plain. Gay had •offered' more than once to have it done over to her. But Lisbeth liked the simplicity of maple and chintz and crisp ruffled organdy. She leaned ,agAinst the door nowand let the cool, peaceful charm of the little room envelop her. The acute distaste she felt for Reid Terry receded a little. If only Gay didn't like him so well. If only she wouldn't let his influence make her flippant and amused over things that weren't funny. Real things, like men and women loving each other and being content, no matter how little they had, be- cause the one they loved was there to share that little with them. It wasn't Gay's fault. She wasn't herself just now. She was shocked at this thing that had happened to Bob Ferris, worried over the sudden cutting off of the alimony she had come to depend on. If Reid hadn't been there, Gay and Lisbeth could have talked, ser- iously and without pretense, of the future. They could have dis- cussed ways and means. But Reid was there. Heaven knew when he'd go home. Lie•beth crossed to the window and stood there, staring out unsee- ing into the sodden dusk. She'd have to figure things out alone. Perhaps it was just as well. Cray was so helpless, so dependent, so sweet. Love for her mother wash- ed over Lisbeth in a great tide. She thought, "If we sell the furni- ture and move into a smaller place Gay won't , like it, but what else can we do? With no money coming in at all . . . Her thoughts went round and round in tightening circles. It would have been easier to plan constructively if the memory of gray eyes, looking down into hers, an eager voice demanding, "But I'll see you again. I've got to see yon again!" hadn't kept getting in the way. Lisbeth didn't know bow long she stood there. • It was quite dark when her mother's voice, petulantly insistent, reached her ears. The girl moved swiftly across the room, not troubling to turn on a light, and through the adjoining bath to another, larger bedroom. Gay sat before her dressing table. She said, not turning at Lisbeth's entrance. "You'll have to help me, darling. I'm dining out at seven and I gave Jenny the evening off. Run my bath, that's a dear. Not too warm, and lots of crystals." Lisbeth said, hesitating, "I hop- ed we'd have a chance to talk." But Gay pleaded, "Run the bath first, sweet. Then, if you'll get out my things I'll have time to lie down for fifteen minutes and we'll talk. Isn'•t it too vile about Bob? I'll want my dubonnet din- ner dress and diamond clips . ' Later, while Gay lay flat on her back, astringentpacks over her closed eyes and a rejuvenating cream spread thickly on her face and throat, Lisbeth began pur- posefully, "But Gay, we've got to decide things! We can't go on as though you still had an income. I want to try to find a job."/ "A job!" Gay's tone was scorn- ful. "What could you do, what could either of' us do, that would bring in anything like a sufficient amount of money to live on?" "Not as we've been living," Gay's daughter persisted doggeoly. "But if we found a cheaper apart- ment and sold some things . . . I might be able to get on with an orchestra; or do radio work . . . " She wasn't talking nonsense. She had a sweet, small, husky voice, a distinctive way of putting over a song that had been much praised, even among the more crit- ical members of the sophisticated crowd in which she and her mother moved. And last year Russ Georgio, whom she had met at a party, had seriously offered her a job as singing girl with his band. Gay had scoffed at the very idea. But now, with their financial situa- tion altered so drastically . . Lis Keeps From Her Mother, Meeting With Jon But Gay was saying piteously, "Lisbeth, you mustn't think of such a thing! I can't bear it - truly, I can't! You mustn't mention It again. As if I'd let you support Me! Something will turn up, dar- ling. Something will break." She went on gtilnkly, then, before Lis - beth could speak, "I've had about all 1 can stand at one session. Let's be cheerful, so I ca.n relax a little. Didn't anything nice happen today? Where did You go? What did you do! Tell me." (Continued Neat Week) �Val'.0 g lLege)080 1:tA heY;OI,t,}1p0r pvaa;,eld in the church abed when �tboli 500 attended; 4 play,. "#en JPecked %Teary," riro!in Walton, 'w'aa very much enjoyed after the sap. ;per, fi . Wm. Johns and Mrs. Chas.Ste»ilen attended the W.M.S. con- vention at Grand Bend on Tuesday. Mr. Lewis Woods and Jim Sin- elair spent the week -end at the former's cottage at Stokes Bay. Mr. Elgin Skinner, teacher, of New Toronto, spent the holiday week -end with Mr. and Mrs. E. Skinner. WINTHROP The organization Meeting of the Winthrop Young People's Unipn was held in the basement of Cav- an United Church on Sunday. The meeting was opened by the Call to Worship, followed by Hymns 562 and 541. Rev. H. E. Livingstone outlined the purpose, organization and objective of the Young Peo- ple's Union and directed the meet- ing. The nomination and election of officers followed, with the fol- lowing elected: President, Dorothy Dodds; convener of Christian Fel- lowship, Betty Montgomery; as- sistant, Rome Johnston; convener of Missions, Earl McSpadden; as- sistant, Irwin Johnston; convener of Citizenship, Eric Anderson; as- sistant, Don McClure; convener of Culture, Lorraine Smith; assistar}t, Marjorie McClure; Recreation, Ar- thur Bolton; assistant, Harry John- ston; secretary -treasurer, Leslie McSpadden; assistant. Mac Bol- 1WhenYearBACK BlIJMS' t0 Ache BECAUSE - Backache is often due to an upset kidney condi- tion; and for over half a century Dodd's Kidney Pills have helped bring relief from 'backache by treating the kidneys. Get Dsdd's Kidney Pills today at any drug counter. Look for the blue be: with the red band. You can depend on Dodd's. 155 .on; 'lee -pines dent, nook lei lute; . iltnlats,<y oiralr a amttrji ,and :I►y Dodds A motion was mgyed end neeonded that a Y.P. 00,0Wmust be ordeired It was moved that ,meetInge • be held the quer; snip third Stltldlay and aeeoA'd Tuesday of each ,month. It wad silo moved i thatthe tee 02 2;5,c ;Amiduntli. the ,end of 1951., The next n4e , lag will be held on Oct. 39.The meet ing closed with Hymn 400 and, prayer. WI WI1-ELSEA Mrs. Clarence Fletcher attended a shower on Saturday last at the. home of Mrs. Earl Atickens, and trousseau tea given Thursday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hebert Davis for daughter Janette, who on Saturday became the bride of Jim Barker of Lucan. Miss May Jackson, Walton, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bailey and Betty. • Miss. Jackson re- turned home on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, who spent the clay with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jackson at Walton. Misses Joy Whitlock' and Win- nie Smithson, of St. Thomas, spent the week -end with Mr: and Mrs. Freeman Horne. Sunday visitors with Mr. and• Mrs. Ivan Brock were: Mr. and Mrs. Clyn "Dobbs and Mr, and Mrs. Tom Stevenson, of Glencairn; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Oke, of Seaforth; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oka, of Hamil- ton; Mr. and Mrs, Cliff Brock and Mrs. Minor Dobbs, of Elimville. Mrs Newton Clarke is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. The Voice Of Temperance Said a minister to a beaten alco- holic: "Harry, in God's name, how did a man like you come to this?" The answer came: "Well may you ask that question. I ,bad a good home. But I was a young fool. I knew what liquor had done to many, but I was sure it could not happen to me. I could drink and let it alone. I ought to have kown better, that no one can safe- ly experiment on himself with alco- hol. One thing I completely over- looked, that alcohol is a habit- forming abitforming drug. 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