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We thank you all for your generous
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THt'RSDAY. DEC. 9/r#,
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"Blue Doorway"
By ANN WU RTFLE
I wish I could mike you see the haute with the little blue
door. Other distin.tive characteristics about the house there
undoubtedly wore, but it was th'e blue door that attracted and
held yqur attention in an unaccountable, compelling sort of way.
As you walked raiang the path outs:dc the white picket
fence, you were apt to notice the trim little muslin curtain:, and
the curious sheen of the white paint orate:d:. The vi:lage
priest, who had been on the Empress of Ireland when she was
cut in two, need to say that on moonlight nights the h;.use glist-
ened like the :hip when she slowly rolled over, revealing the
slippery expanse of her side above the black water. —
If the season was Spring, you could not fail to remark the
gnarled old apple trees with their load of blossoms. If it Was
Winter, you noticed the bright geraniums in pots on the window"
ledges; but it was the blue doorway to which your eyes inevit-
ably returned,
Miss Nancy Beckett had built the horse for herself the
year the war ended. She was a eomplete stranger to the little
North of England village and her coming.*as anticipated as a
welcome break in the monotony 'of lift. People were disap-
pointed, however, when Miss. Nancy made it plain that she de-
sired neithei to receive nor repay neighborly attempts at fam-
iliarity. - -
The villager, speculated about Miss Nancy's age. She
was not young, but she was not very old either; And she was
gored -looking, undeniably good-looking.
During the years she bad lived in the village its inhabi-
tants had come to know some of her little peculiarities. There
was one, for instaryae, which caused a great deal of comment.
At four thirty o'eloek on winter afternoons Miss Nancy always
lit a lamp andplacedit in the window facing north and there it
burned all night.
• "Jtest as if she expected someone," people said..,
Yes, there was a mystery about Miss Nancy AU :sorts of
rumors were circulated, It was Priscilla, the little girl who
lived across the road, who carne nearest to the truth. Priscilla
was Miss Nancy's only friend. Her apple trees in fall appealed
to Priscilla,
One day in late autumn, Priscilla, supporting herself
against the picket fence, was gazing with deep melancholy at
the enticing panorama of laden apple trees, when suddenly a
window was opened and. Miss Nancy's head appeared.
"You'd better come in and pick some," she said. ,
Prittcilla, naturally hesitant, hugged the picket fence hard-
er than ever but waited in a flutter of suspense for a second
invitation. Miss. Nancy came' to the door.
"Surely you aren't afraid of me?" she enquired,
'"Oh, no," replied Priscilla, "but. they do .say you're edd:
A ---a sort of recluse:" she hiccoughed the word. •
"They do, do they?" asked Miss Nancy, endeavoring to
'hide her amusement. "You'd better come in and tell me what
else they say;" and she held the door wide for Priscilla.
When Priscilla went home that night she was full of ex.
citement. . ••
"She told me stories all about Belgian children .and Red
Cross nurses and she hasa ne-nor-pious picture of a soldier on
her mantle -piece; it's the only one she has:" added Priscilla,'
thoughtfully.
From that day forth -Priscilla was Miss. Nancy's devoted
friend and the -entree to the house with the blue doorway was
never.. denied her,.
One -day -in -early December when the apple trees,stood
stark and rigid against aelead-grey aky, and the earth, see and
desolate and forlorn, awaited its concealing covering of snow,
Priscilla, her hands clasped about her knees, sat perched' on a;
low stool in froimt-oLthe fire in Miss Nancy's living room. She
looked up suddenly from the book in her lap and addressed Misr
Nancy, who was dreamily musing by the window,
"Miss IVtncy, what is a great love like?"
There 14aa�silence_in_the_inoni for while but theaik_sj ern-_.
ed full.of little interrogation marks.
At --1 tst Miss...Haney-said.alaw.lyss".l,'ll-.teiLvon a stoi.v, _Friss
• cilia, and then we shall see if we agree on what a great love
really is like. • .
'In the early days of the War, an English died Cross nurse
was out on the fields of Flanders doing what she could to help
' . • the sick and suffering sotdters.One night, after a terrific bat-
tle, she, with others of the hospital staff, was going.,over the
ground from which the enemy had retreated and among the
barbed wire entanglements, they found an English soldier, badly
wounded. WhileAlewas in the field hospital he depended very
largely- on the English Red Cross nurse and in the course of
eveh*s, ther-grew to love one another,.
"After he recovered. he -was despatched to England but be-
fore long, he was returned -to Belgium and by this time the
'soldier and the Red Cross nurse -loved each other so much that
they wanted to be married before he again went into the tren-
ches; but there seethed to be insurmountablee difficulties in the
way. The soldier had very little' money -and Was scarcely able
to keep his, old mother maul little blind brother back .in England.
They, he told the Red Cross nurse, lived among the beautiful
Devon hills in a little white cottage with a blue door. 'You
hever,no idea,' he Mad, 'how that cottage haunts my dreams and
how greatly I long to see it- again,T •. _. _.
''Well, Priscilla, they were not married, for soon after that
the soldier went into battle and was reported missing and when
the Armistiee watt signed the Red Cross, nurse returned to Eng-
land and went straight to Devon, where she learned that the
soldier's old mother and little blind brother had both died and
the cottage posited into the hands of tenants who had re -painted
it alt mud brown."
Miss Nancy ceased speaking and the only sound in the
room was the ticking; of a clock and the. soft putt -putt of the
first heavy snow flakes against the window,
"Your cottage has a blue door;" suggested Priscilla in a
low, questing little voice.
"Yes," answered Miss Nancy; "and would it nurprise.. you
very much if I were to tell you that I wars the Red Cros::nurse
and the soldier my lover for whom I wait? For I know that he
is not dead," "said Miss Nancy positively; "and when he comes
for me he will know by the blue doorway and shall find me
waiting."
The day* went by and Miss Nancy faced yet 'another beak
and desolate Christmas. Of all the festivals of the year Christ-
man was for her tate moot poignantly lonely. The beacon light
burned in her windnw as always, but Mis* Nancy's heart was
waning and sometimes her heart was weil.night ready to break.
Bat on Christmas Eve when the stars blinked and twinkled
...down and the atmosphere felt aaarcharged with excitement, at
atcange re*tleesiwas seised hold upon the nest+pant of the hoer*
with the bine doorway. One by one the lights of the rillaxt
were put wt., In the hour before the dawn when It asenneil ti
)licca Nancy as if she had the whole world to hermit. ahe threw
wide the door. and wndMr the night sky a solitary pedestrian
approae.4red and Micas Nancy wart forth to meet her lower, far
you moot have grteaoed that it wait he.
"t`ald it a premonition. rail it kismet or what yr* wilt." said
Mica Nancy as they at+od face to face. TM's, as they trued le
at the white gate his arm wort round Mies Nasty and her head
carne wry doe. to his shoulder and to herself she whispered :
"Love is like a Motown flame in the rasrnM`. but at the
end of the day Lore i* 1 . . . Ntrhpo hem lesuell-
ne.s; like a Mee darwsy flair amens to wbiis psrtA,"
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Christmas Gifts
Let the REXALL STORE Solve Your
Gift Problems
Never before have we offered such a variety
to choose from. You are invited to call in
and inspect without any obligation to buy
Here are a few of the lines we suggest :
RED AND GOLD LINE—
Dainty Toiletries. neatly Boxed
LUTHER GOODS --
Hand Bags, Purses Cointainers,
Novelties.
FNENCH IVORY—
Sets, or separate pikes.
PEARL-TONE—
Beauti•,tul sats, in Pearl, Blue, or
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Hair
BONYHair Brushes, Military Brushes,
Mirrors, and complete sets. •
STATIONERY—
Fancy i3.cxeri tor Gift purposes
CANDY—
Liggett's, Patterson's and Billy
Burke, 1 lb. to 10 Ib. Boxes,
special Christmas wrapped.
CIGARS, CIGARETTES, PIPES,
ETC, suitable for the smoker,
KODAKS, BROWNIES—
Photo Albums, Photo Calendars
PERFUMES, TOILET WATERS
All attractively Boxed.
THERMOS BOTTLES And
KITS, always useful Gifts.
HOT WATER BOTTLES ---
Various prices, "illi -g*lhranteed.
SAFETY RAZORS--
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H. C. DUNLOP
THE REXALL STORE
Bedford Block
CONGRATULATIONS TO
MR. WM. CAMPBELL
alayor of Barrie, Himself a Former
Goderich Man, Sends
Congratulations
Mr. William Campbell is in receipt
of the following letter from the may-
or of Barrie, in which town Mr. Camp.
hell
, imp-
lsell was burn. The mayor of Barri t
is himself a former Goderich man as
he states in his letter and Mr. Camp-
bell appreciates •. his kindly message
and greetings ;
Barre, Ont.,
Dec,, 17th, 1926
Mr. William Campbell,
Goderich, Ontario.
" Dear Mr. Campbell.—I am taking
the liberty of writing to congratulate
you on the very ripe old age you have
attained. I had the pleasure el read
ding the write-up re your attitude in
the recent election and in this Connec-
tion I learned that you were born in
Barrie, which is my home -by adop-
tion. I was born in Goderich and i(►
has been my privilege and pleasure
to have served- hisemuuicipality fol
about eighteen years as alderman
deputvereeve and reeve. alko nmavom
for six years, 191546-17 and 1924-25-
26. I am quite sure that you are the
oldest person living -that was. born in
Barrie. You will not remember r*
but if You are the Wm. Carnnhell wh.,
conducted_a shoe_ business in Goderich.
many years ago I remember you as
you were then,
.--As--Mayor--of—the—town—in—which—you.
were born I wish to extend to you may
heartiest congratulations on your long
and .useful life and to express the
•hope that you May be spared for
ninny years in the enjoyment of
health 'and hnnpiness.
With kindliest greetings of the
Christmas Season. 1 am,
Yours sincerely,
J. F. CRAIG,
Mayor.
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It's train time now—pack up—get
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The social season is on in Florida—
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Florida is a winter rendezvou:t•where
you may enjoy summery pastimes • to
your heart's content--swinmming .
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loafing.
An enchanted land, it seems, with
its wonderful climate—its :voncirors
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Ypur fondest dreams of a tropical
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