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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-01-09, Page 2rebss Qjjjl11BU11111 "1""ifuui 1111?IubII lll1IIIHfl111;1111 lllllllllllll(Offlltll1115SulllnIm[fllll1) AzTiiui2, .'R,E V E CITAPTIat V1I. INTERFERENCE, Nor an 11000 00 more Dick waited patiently at his wireless dicinglaph in Gar'rick's room. 1n the silence, broken now nod then Gy some 1nateu•, he had plenty of "With Dek?" This quick query was time to think of Ruth. In spite of ,from Ruth and a bit anxious. himself 1(1s suspicions carried hint 00 "No, alone" to ;lie Parr robbery, now known to "O11 , , ," 'Her voice died off in re- lieve included the taking of vnluahie jewels as %'ell as the looting of the Porr cellar of some of its Choicest vintages. His thoughts 0011 beyond that, to the radio dance and the sus- pieious signaling from the tower of 1110 Gerard house, Who Was the ringleader 01 this mis- erable a1ah .' He thought of Brock, of Georges ---aid of Jack Curtis, He gritted his teeth. He hated the very name of the debonair adventurer, Dick started from his reverie. The dictagralih writs working! Vira ems speaking to Ru:h. "Well, here we are again. For a second last night I thought we were new going to get to the old Inner Circle again," ''there 11'110 .ilence for a few (minutes, then Ruth spoke; "I -wonder when Jack t; coming" Dick, at the other end, hod been a bit worried about the ethics of what Garrick's detective proclivities had got him into. He told himself that lie would stop listsning if it were 1(01 for what Guy Would say, The fact Was that Dick ("00 almost beside himself with jealousy as he heard Ruth dis- cussing'Jack. Then he heard another voice over the wireless. He recognized it as Brock's voice and Brock did 1101 seem in the best of tempers with the girls. "You oughtn't- to butt in and try- to stop anything, Ruth—not when it bas gone as far a, that tiling (fid last night. You'll get somebody taught one of theee days and—" There Was a thinly veiled threat in the gruff breaking orf 'of Brock's re- mark,' heard the distant soun.l of a comcer- just because it was the parrs— end where,tiarrick was running into tine; Coupled with voices and orcn- $101111 laughter, Our men seemed pleased to think that the Germans One Night in Flanders Those early trenches were extreme- ly crude -simply ditches. Sandbags were few and far between. Corrugated iron had not been introduced. Ram had transformed these trenches into watery slots. "Dugouts were muddy Georges, by the sound, must have shut alcoves interjected at random into rho door. „ either wall of the trench, Muddy "That was a call from the g nage, rifles lay in crevices. The gaps he, came Jack's voice, "T:11' Garrick guy tweets the rifles were filled with rust- has been hanging around. 111y mem ing cans, which had brought us food. left. But sonmeme saw Garrick 10 a Here u1nc1 there were slots running taxi" back from the trench, which served es toilet stations and refuse pits, Be- hind our unpleasant habitation, sun- dry small wooden crosses stuck out of the ground, recording the passing of those who could not have been buried farther away, because of the dangers and pressures of the moment, Try to visualize this scene, over which rifle shots "crack" intermittent- ly; then try to realize flint this is where you must live, and that there can be no escape except on a stretcher, lief, 'I've sent another fellow out, Hope he's in time." "Where?" This was From Vira. "Your place." Jack seethed to Imnmd a table. "They'll give him the beating of his life, confound Moll—mash his foot im-put him in the shee,0 for a \week=maybe Illattl If you can do this, you will have a' Dick tinkered and tickled and act- Picture 01 the spot in which the first jested. All he got t6 0 some fuel Christmas of the 100r tonal 00. amateur on the same wave length, What n Christmas) Lurking in n He mem Hs tried to swear over the filthy slot bhat wound its Way across ether, but with ill success. The inter- an ex -turnip field! Yet when the post ferelce 10110 there to stay, as it always arrived on Christnn0 live, bringing is when one is listening in on souse- several small packages of food and taming pretty gels cigarettes from those. hack at home, Dick was sore. But he was not the effervescent natere of the British surprised, In fact he would haivebeenl soldier shelved itself and We all cheer-' pleased at almost any other time, For, even if his f0nnity were wealthy, Dick had visions of himself 0010 day doing ed up a bit. By about midnightsongs (001.0 breaking 011t 1101'6 and there. How painfully ridiculous it scented! better than the biggest of the radio Nation faring nation from two long, firms doing business and of 010101 11- winding slots in the ground This, interference. Dick yeas working: after all the mental eyolntion of roan or an intention to that cud now through the ages, was the method used He east the headgear in useless vexation on the table. It seemed to him that he had been on the point of getting just the important thing he wanted to hear. Ido had boon making notes as he went along, for aonlewhere sat idly scraping the mud off my he had leant something about the Loots, methods of defectives. IIis mind was in a whirl, as if. a Suddenly a sentry on my right turn- down people were sending in his men- ed down the trench and shouted ex- ta1 ether at once_ Then, suddenly, as citedly, Shut nnli, you fellers! 1(101011!" if unconsciously, ire had sharpened the The stopped <lecw. 'What'., thoughts to the exact wa00 length, th� mattter?ter? " 1 asked. one idea seemed to swamp ell others,, "The Germans is efngin', sir. LisIon 1 Il place where Ruth had spent the aught to settle a dispute! Hoy strange is the dual nature of civilization which eaves even for hopeless cripples at enormous expense in peace, and throws its strongest and best into a mechan- ical hell in War, So I thought, as I Dick felt that ho must get to this nit 3rou ear eat: Sure enough. We all dielinclly tome friends of—" danger, if he had not already fallen "I know," interrupted Ruth. "But into it. And he Hurst get there first: wizen you all picked us up atter the He lore out of the apartment, grab - smash -up and tools us to Virt s—why bed the first taxi rgde ronly a Ion cold sing, anti play nmusic, tae. There t!id'you leave the balky stuff at her blocks and dismissed it, wits much laughter and interest at house? Suppose AOme0110 comes in As he sped down the block, he eauld titin phenomenon. We all went in- houses to the trench approached the German line most neatly, and 110100ed again, The Gelman singing awl playing continued mg toward them Dicic could make out amidst ;anti # Jocular •.mnteut'Aron] there and finds 1t. A pretty little see the ea in front of Gerard's. 'then point where our front-page scandal!„ "Dont worry, No one wilt find any- thing. Jack will tske care of that." Vira made a little suppressed ex- clamation. "I can imagine my Mater if Iwas caught in a bootlegging clean ostf That'd be the last straw on the dronmedary. She'd be looking for some new sheik for 000 in the shape of a grand old octogenarian husband, 1 was straight on the road. to perdition when Iwent into pictures, I shack the folks a dozen times a clay. But 11 rum - running scandal! Go, get thee to a nunnery, Viral" Dict: at the other end was aghast. It. wa0 all surprising news, this clue to where Ruth had been the night before, Also, it Was some mitigated relief. She had got back to town shaken u b r p y 1110 accident and land gone with Vira to 1 ira's empty town s }L11000 he ,.c, More than that, thea something he diel not get; but some- how her smash-up had been concerned mutat tying to frns'rat0 something, not perpetrate it. "I •von't go back there tonight, Vira," she said at length, "I'm going to stay at the Usonia. A nice little lecture is conning to me for being out two nights and smaohing 111y car. Well , no runs -running arrest yet, 1t might dampen the ardor of 001110 - one I know whose ardor I do not want •dampened, , Brock, you said this would be a lark. It's a lark, all right 1Vo wake up the 1arks!" "Ruthie, old sore -hones, i,ovv do you feel? I heard you talking about 0 lark. You look as 111 you l,ad been on one that took a nose dive." It was Rae, who was at least one of the new arrivals. "Lail.! This from Ruth contempt0u- ouely. 1 es. One thing leads to an- other, all right. First 110 01011 this the stuff was gone! `with enli.lnmg cul'losit3, There Was place. Then we get in over cu1' heads. "Then --why the fight_With us?" II Mutual trust about the whole thing, Their we begin getting our own stuff puzzled Dick as they parted front the although naturally accompanied b,y a to save money, Then we begin get- chagrined raiders. curious shyness at first, Which rapidly ting more than Ove 1511 use Here—to "Just to get us out of the way," wore ori, There vvas no trace of make some money -to pay the other grunted Garrick, "0osh! I ache! , , I hatred or antagonism. One felt the hat friendliness he exsubsided .1S' another voice be- d0)11. know Tri whetherit's0 obolectivt w111011 establishment itself tbetteen comport - Ruth a roan ran 0cross under the arc light. Dick hurried, He saw in the shadow two amen struggling and a third cneep- Garrick IIe was just in time He 0iii• men;. ,-� }llln'led himself. at the other attacker. Suddenly onn.pf the crowd scrambl- TI ey were two against two now.ed up the parapet and shouted out, But at the moment when it seemed "Coupe over 'ere'•" that. each 111 getting the upper bend There was a laugh amongst 1s at of his Winn, a couple of others tan am. the 510urduly or the 1101 em Someone Evidently they had been trailing hint else n0 511ed the my ,•'i011 louder from Garric.kC's where they must have Thee w1 e" 1.nclem01. miahle reply been watching. from the Cc: slat] tenure:' 1(hich The fight of the four now sweats f.th still further merriment entirely against Garrick and Dick. on our side of the field. I'aPD this From the Avenue,, (whence lad Coors terrible war had been unable t1 check the new assailants, now crone ,t nuiel h it of 011 0101. 0 0) that 000ined ,n scurry of feet. A whistle, `-,et ons } be ab toad. H re, on Christmas hve, rapped as with a hickory 111111 on the 001001hint,*shad :snapped1,Si; curb, making hollow echoon, An excited oldier run to 10, '191e four fled, 1))(1'10 met, sirs One of nun Men The newcomers hau':d Garrick ;,rad a"'1 a German! Out there in the open!'' I hastened bald: with him to 0 You're under urea!" n,,;, or part of the trench, and found that chit them flushed a badge. "Saw you come had not only really happened, but that out of the cellar of the Inner Circle one or two nmm'e from both sides wore last night. Also you were on that on their way to do the same thing. The roof tonight!" situation 11 o ma military point of view Garrick looked at the badge. They was absurd. What ,should be Alone were revenue enforci:nnent riven. Ile about It? We were soldiers who land pulled his own card, issued by the fought, and had got to emmtinae figllt- Comptroller of State. There was a 1°g, lb stop suddenly and he irlendl,y 11101110)0 of perplexity, then es -plane seemed rehinRu Dons and apologies, thele d'nsE1 5 pgreposterousater forcetthang. armiest "Thought you were in the Velvet at the front that night. Gang, too." As the dawn came 1 00 s anile to -see "The Velvet Gang?" the situation. Our soldiers were 0000y- Yeh—that's (chat we nicknamed in disorder. Some were stand - us that bunch of aristocract10 ing on the parapet, a position which rum-run- lyes.,, at a normal time would have spelt One of them shad picked up the ko'. sadden death. Others were straggling "A11-100! We're in luck!" out into No Man's Land, So, without the formality of al Looking towards the Cer man lines search warrant, they enterd the Ger- saw precisely the same scenes, 'Phe and hoose. soldiers of both armies were approach - If anything had ever been there--) ing one another across No Man's Land came audible also to Didc, Glen had that's needed so much --or a psycho- evdiently been another of the new al'rit 110, "Now, fellows," smoothed out Glenn, "quit doing your stuff. No good ever come,0—". "To rogues when rogues fall out," Ruth finished with at laugh and some claws 111 the soft voice. "I heat' Jack and Georges down- stairs," Rae changed the subject diplomatically. "Oh, here's Jack, now, Well, Jack, what's the dirt?" Ruth did not wait for any answer, "Did you—?" "Yes, I did, Rutin," hastened Jack. "Got .1 good scout to go up there to Visa's place and remove those Par cases as soon as the coast is clear— say, eleven o'clock." "What time is it now?" "Must be about that now'.... , It's after." Georges' s ,,10 '-Otel'rupted i "Tcdt- phone, Curtis.'` ; Jack. (eat Put, .,ppa•cntly, - and :1SSU No. 1—'30 analyst—or an alienist—or a spiritual adviser!" (To lie continued.) 1 111et a young German officer and exchanged buttons as souvenirs. With my wire -cutting pliers I removed a button from his tunic, and gave hint cute of mine in exchange. Later, 1 was photographed by a German with 001.- erals others, 111 a group composed of both sides. Not far from us lay 00010 dead, now appro0chnble for the first time. The scene w110 so strange that in a simple, foolish way I felt the win. m1(1( 15101 endure in face of it all, This fraternization (5'011 now taking place on a front of half a mile. Stroll- ing about in No Alan's Land, 1observ- "That ansa leeks perfectly cow. ed the extent of the thing. No Man's tented." Land! where only a few days ago it "He ought to he. He has h(s 00111 would have been impossthle to Move ter (laurels broken In and eight tons of coal in the cellar." dices were exchanging food, souvenirs, The Little Star without disaster, but where now sol soldiers, gone front the war, it would be hardto get the thicg started again, If someone could have shouted loud enough to hate been heard all along the. front --then what? What could time directing few do if a herd, numbering a million, refused to start again? And what is the right have m nli- pontofviewtoha i 'f sash acondi- tion 0(000? Should Peace and Good Wild---Christianity—be fostered, lead- ing to mineable settlement of the (110- pute, or should armed force prevail? But if someone powerful enough had arisen in No Man's Land on that morning acid advocated a "stop fight- ing" policy, ho would have been court- martialed and executed, About noon, as the general laxity- and friendliness were growing, a foots Mill match was suggeete(L Someone had evidently received a deflated foot- ball as a Christmaspresent. Playing football with the enemy doesn't sound right somehow: however, this pro - vet was interrupted. . I was suddenly sent for by the cap- tain Of my company, and something within ire told me that all W00 not well. I arrived nt his dugout and heard that 'hire was displcaeuve in the mind of the Colonel at the pro- ceedings. ro- ceeelitigs. The 11015'0 had reached the General, and sharp orde(s had arrived to tenni- nate any fraternization immediately, 1l'hnt else can a general do? Chatting with the enemy takes no place in his profession. So, with much trouble, the officers in the front line began herd- ing the soldiers bac!.:, The. Germans were made to understand that the friendly meeting was over, The orders to return to the trenches were reluc- tantly obeyed. Christmas Night 0p(0 110111 sides 110011 111 their lines, and on our left a few still•minghng soldiers, who had not grasped the serious nature of the ender_, were shot down by opposing fire. The war Sad 001te.! again. Rides spat forth death across the shell_ seamed turnip field, banishing the Spirit or Clnistoas that had flitted in a strange way a'aoss No Man's Land, mrd for few hours had t:'iumphed- Ask for Saladla Orange Pekoe -mit is the finest I 1 ORANGE PEKOE BLEND •1' 'Freshiiom the gardens' 11 WHAT WEARI?`,1' Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished with Eery Pattern By Annebelle Worthington 01,0 of the most practical fashions of the season for the school miss of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years is illustrated in navy blue wool crepe with beige .:repo collar and cuffs. 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Patterns sent by an early 101(11,, s-� 2947 THEeHAPPIEST DAY +'. . ^If';aoy man, poor or rich, were to "1 11)111111 lore you nos!, becrosc you remind me so flute(1'of`ta1y first wife." less anti if I married'you,:'1'51 1dfi nil you'd always lit' reinlmding hie of her." Beside Stili Waters ' 'When at last the' e311ecM m are led 11thile still waters,' iron geed 1t is, aasr the dust mitt heart of the sheep- ''ths. O'0nld yoo get the shepherd mean ing here? '10011 _remember that streams aro few,: i11 the shepherd country of Bible lands. The shep- herds do not rely on therm. Ilven whore sI('earis are formica, theirheels and 11anka are messily broken sal their Slow rough, Sheep are timid and fear a current of water, as they well may, for they are easily carrier stream because of their woof:' "Poor things, how do they ever get a good drink?" ex001100d ono of the 1,100 little maids, whose Heart teas al- ways 0p0n lovingly to animals. the shepherd sees to that, doesn't he?" said the otter Gnmidly, with earnest eyes sot on out guest, , . , "Shall I tell you avow the shepherd sees to it that, the sheep have a good drink every day? Listen: 'There are 100110 and fountains all through the vast regions where the necks,. Foams, and some parts there are cisterns, though the sheep like the living water hest, The shepherds know where these drinking -places are all through the treeless country where streams are fog. It is a fine sight to see the shepherds bring flocks 'beside the skill waters' at 00100 well or foun- tain, while the wide silent country over which they aril many other sheep have Wandered, spreads all around them, and the full expanse c1 the sky arches over them, "The .shepherd makes a certain sound; all his sheep !le 11011'11 and are quiet Then he fills the drinking - troughs. The hobbling 51 the foun- t0in, or the current, 11 it be by a stream, Is no longer there to trouble the sheep. They can drink now um disturbed. This is the delicate mean- ing of;that word 'still; As the He- brew words put it, 'Ile leaded' beside the waders of quietness.' "--From "The Song of Our Syrian Guest," by William Allen hnight, and cigarettes.' "It requires very little nerve to What would have happened if this speak frankly when yet are alone curious situation had spread in both with your typewriter:' --Heywood directions, until such a scene Was be- Browsn. isg enacted along the entire length of the front? With hate, and all the Minaret's 'Wards Oft Grippe. propaganda that is used to inflame Twinkle, 1winkle, little star, How 1 wonder if go . are, Up above the footlight's sheen Forlynhe or seventeen, That Sore Throat Needs Minaret's, 0113''that he- .mild tell us what had been the happ'st day in his life, and the eey turd tete wherefore, 1 suppose talar u'o 0110111(1 all cry out, 'Hear Olin! Idea' !him!" 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