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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-11-21, Page 34.41.0101~porwp, 14.V1,1 1,Figuiwirpr71, THE EXETER TIMES -ADVOCATE NOVIAME11 •Pli 102.2 011•0:11,!..••••••••••••,••!...1• liouponillioinuminnumonnounwommomon , -2, ove's Igiiract 2- _ ....... ..... --:-A ANNA $ . SW AN 11111••••• - 1 111111111111111iii111111111111111111111111m11111111111V-7 011111111111111111111111111111111111111 Dolly's careless., heart had aWak- 'oiled, and it beet with en Intolerable ihug whenever she thought of Very), Kerr. She had had many aorers of eort, keeping the most of 'eltem. at arm's length and setting them about their business when she was tired of their attentioes, But X.larry was the first who had touch - ad her heart, end iu her inmost soul Ate loathed with unutterable loath - 'lug the compact into -which she heel :qutered with Lionel Maurice. Wo - ninety iptultien, by no Means dead within. her, had eenabled her to di - Tine that HarrY Kerrs heart .wa•e already given, and that he was suf- fering now because he had fallen in the estimation of the woman whom he loved through his cop- Panionehip. herself. Dolly did not know which of the two ladies she Thad seen was the object of his love, nor did she greatly cere. Time was when evil would have triumphanted in Dolly's undisciplined heart, when jealousy and hatred would have in- aited her to any course, whatever which would in .the long run lead to the gaining of her revenge. But that time had passed. Dolly's heart awakened—whether for good or who could tell? "Whea the play .was over •she made the greatest possible haste with her dressing, and slipped out. before any of the others, She intended—and had indeed proinised—to .take a hansom and go• sound for Behy,, who would, pro- bably be. waiting for her at her own place of establishment, but some- thing occurred when she got outside that drove her promise 'clean out of her head. Rain was pouring in torrents, and "the stage door of the Frivolity was deserted as she- opened it quickly ;Said passed out. ' At the moment a snan stepped from the shelter of the adjoining doorway, and she saw his lace. "Harry!" she exclaimed, half re- lieved, half alarmed; "It's a brute •of a night! , Why did you come? I just wanted to get hoMe with Baby as quickly as I could." • "You have got to talk to me first, Dolly," he .sa,ici in a strange, low voice, gripping her at the same time by the arm. They moved a step forward, and' then the light fell full on his face, and she noted its ghastly whiteness, its set expression. ' - "Good heavens, Hal! whatever has happened? You look as if—as if everything was over!" e"So-everything.is, I' believe, .Doll, cas far as I'm concerned—I have hill - ,a man." "What!" . • She almost shrieked the word, and stood still on the deserted pave- ment, beginning to tremble. "Lionel?" she asked in a tense whisper. eHe nodded, She glanced sharply eound, al - =oat as if she .exiteeted to see an officer of the law on his track, but Atte solitary policeman was standing at the bottom of the street and not concerning. himself in the least kvith their movements, "Let us get out of this—they'll all be out. presently. Let us go down to the Enbankment, where it is quiet." "I want something to eat, Dolly. I don't think have had anything since my breakfast this morning, ', Couldn't we turn 'in somewhere in Vie ,Straed?" e' "If what you. say it true .we can't said Dolly decisively. "Let us walk on, and you tell me what has hap- pened. Killed. Lionel It can't be /true • When and how did it hap - en? Tell me everything:" "I haven't a very coherent idea. •Dolly. must begin at the begin- ning, I went to business as usual .this morning, and everybody turned ,the cold shoulder to Inc. Carrington himself was simply rotten. He treated me like an outsider, and he practically as good as kicked me out of the place." "But why?" inquired Dolly, her ' wound eyes full of wonder and in- dignation "What harm were we ' el oing on the Brighton Front? We Were perfectly innocent, behaving A 4 4 • 9 01•11.11111.11.11.16MMOCIMMIROCCIMPACX431114M17,30". ackaches and Ileac es Mrs. Murray Tebbutt, Chatsworth, Ont., write :—For years I had been subject to backached and headaches, and could find. no remedy that really mewled to relieve me until a neighbor 'told me about Doan 's Kidney Pills. "I hesitated, for a while, about tak. i'ng them, but finally 1 got a box and found to my great satisfaction thee both the haekaeites and headaches were slowly but surely leaving me, so/ got live more boner and before I had fed/died the second one I was feeling very dilrerent. "IiIy work became a pleasure again, •said tteda.y 8,113. perfect health, )11 Fri, 50 conte box cat nil druggiste end Aenlers, or mailed elirect on reeeipt of ;trice by Tho T. Milburn Co., LiMitecl, !Toronto, Ont. 1 • ourselves like :angels:" "That islet the, paint. They be- . Lovell something quite elirrereet, Wo are up against this. Dolly, and we have get to call things by their true names. 'Well, I hung about the blooming place .as long as I could stand it, and then I -shunted, • awl I'll never go back. m done .with them all, the- self-righteous crew.," "Well,: but how about Maurice? Hid you have the row with him at the Blanefield House?" "No, 1 never saw him there. He kept out of my way. I went to Ryder Street and got together all my stuff and cleared." "Where to?" "Nowhere. I took the baggage to Euston and put it in the cloak- room, and at the present moment haven't a place where to lay my head," "That's a small matter," said Dolly calmly, "Tell me •about Maurice." ° "I 'waited till the evening, when I thought he would have arrived at home and have had time to eat his dinner Then I let myself in with the latchkey and wont for him tooth • and nail." • "Did you fight?" said Dolly in an awestricken voice. "Not at first. I simply stood up to him and accused him • of double- dealing and of lying in order to ruin me. It is Maurice who has Put them up to all this Dolly, and you needn't deny it, because. I'm as certainly convinced of it as I am of anything in this world." "I'm not seeking to deny it," said Dolly through her parched line, But please go on. What did he say?' "He said precious. .little—he couldel:; he was cornered every tittle. But he was so beastly ag- gravating—you know the sort of slow, supercilious' smile he wears at times—that I couldn't stand. I'm a hot tempered beggar, Dolly; all my' People are. 'They can't control themselves when they get to a cer— tain pitch. Maurice got me to that Pitch with his superior way, and I wont for him. I only gave hima back -hander, and Ile landed on the fender. I didn't wait to see what happened after that, but I thought as I glanced back just before I left the room that he looked as if he were dead, and I didn't care." Dolly drew a big breath. "Hal, yeti nearly bowled me over, and you don't seem to realize what it means. to hill a man. You speak of it as if it was the siert of thing that you were bandy at every corner. Maurice isn't dead at all. He's tough; he'll come round. Pece. bably by this tine he's all right, or nearly. • What •a fright you gave me!" ' Her voice shook and her eyes sud- denly dimmed. But she crushed the tears back—not, however, before .Harry Kerr had seen them. And they had a curiously softening ef- fect on. him. Be was alone in a great city, without a single friend except this girl, into whose company everycircumstance seemed- to force him. Perhaps she represented to him relentless fate ' "Dont take on, old girl," he said almost tenderlye'I'm sorry I have given you such a fright, but couldn't help it. I have • had an awful night of it, wandering the streets till it was time to sea you, You're the only friend that I have got in this ghastly hole, and you mustn't go back on Inc." Dolly, thinking rapidly, dried her tears and brought her native com- mon-sense to bear upon the pro- blem of nervy Kerr's existence, That he had behaved throughout like an irre,sponsible child did not disturb or even surprise her: She had some considerable experience with his sex. But she had never met a man so transparent or so lovable. "Look here, Hal, we have got to ' look this thing in the face, as you express it. Did the people of the house hear you or see anything that happened?" "I don't think so. Mrs. Briscoe's Sittinzeroom it at the baelc, and the Frenchman, who has the second floor, was dining out. I know be- cause he told me so last night." • "Who let you in?" "I let myself in with my key, and I have got. it In my pocket yet." "Then nobody actually saw yoe?" • Nobody at all saw me. The ser - vanes were at their sapper, and the door doeen't make the smallest noise," "Then who is there to prove that it we...5 you •who hurt Lionel?" she said with another breath of relief. "Even it the worst has happened, there. would be nobody to lay the blaine. en you." "I don't care if they do 'blame me, Dolly, I gave the beggar what he deserved, though really I didn't want to kill him." "You talk like a baby. Dont you knew what they do to relics that kill a mon? Nal, I haven't any patience witel Seems like as you had gone dotty ell of a sudden." "eo I have," lie said gloomily. "I' alim n'It seeking to deny it." • "Well, the muleteer you stopbe- ing dotty the better it will be for you," she said in her .aliarpeet de- cisive tone. "First thing you have gat to Ile low until to-movrow till I find out exavtly whatehas happened!. What do yeti propose 10 do with your.s.tqf tonight?" ,,,teen't know, I have beet DTI the bridges once Or twice, looking over and wondering whether it wouldn't be a gooriddance for everybody concernea if I took the plunge." "That's the poorest way out or Anything, Hal," she answered int - patiently. "Well, first thing you have got to do is to go to Huston in a fottr-wheeler anti get out your star." "And after that?" "co to an address over 'ceasing - tan way that I will give you. An old dresser of my mother's lives there. She's a pensioner or, some big follts at the West End, and elle has got a dear little house. She has two rooms to let. You'll be com- fortable there," ! • "But she will be in bed by this time." 'Wever mind. Well, let me see. Perhaps it would be better for you to wait till the morning. Coeldn't you sleep at the Bunten Hotel' all eight? But perhaps -that wouldn't be a good move! They would re- cognize you there. A chap like you makes people remember him. No, you must lie low, to -night. Tell You what, Hal, I'll go with you to get out the stuff, and then take you to Mrs. Ancourt's myself, Poor Baby will be wondering what has happen- ed to me. I dare say by this time she lute gone 'home. Here, call that growler, Hal, it's time we were off.' "Why should I put you to al this trouble, Dolly? Let me ,drift. ought to bear the brunt anyhow of what I have done. I'm no coward." "No, you're only a baby and a fool," replied Dolly calmly. "Call that growler and let us be off." CHAPTER XXII •t Woman's Heart Baby Vandom arrived home at the usual time, ate her supper, and went to bed. Accustomed to the vagaries of Dolly, the mother did not feel any acute anxiety about her until midnight had passed. Then site be- gan to ask herself what could have become of the girl, and to wonder whether the restlessness and peev- ishness of the day •culminated in some fresh disaster. Disaster was very familiar to poor Mrs. Vandom, who had had a cheq- uered career, full of troubles which would have overwhelmed most wo- men, but which a sort of dogged placidity had enabled her to struggle through. The Vandom :iris were Very steady, and their mother had never 'entertained the smallest fear that they would make the usual ship- wreck of . their lives. She had them up well, inclucating upon them from their earliest years the truth that the road is not only the road to ruin, bat is .also an unprofitable one, looked at from any point of view. But when twelve o'clock struck, and she • sat' listening in the quiet house to the beating of the rain on time panes, her motherly anxiety be- gan to exert itself. It was about half -past twelve when through the open window she lmeard the rumble or wheels. • A •cab stopped at the end of the street just under a gas lamp, and Dolly alighted, paid the man,and proceededeto walk rapidly towards the door of the house. She was alone. Her mother was waiting on the landing when she came swiftly and quietly up. She was very pale, and she looked thoroughly exhausted, but she tried4to reassure her mother with a smile. "All right, motherie. Don't worry, nothing has happened to me." She threw a careless but really tender arm round her mnother's shoulders and kissed her chedk. Then they passed together into the house. "I was getting frightfully anxious, Dolly. Baby has been in bed for a good hour." Dolly nodded as she took off her damp cloak. "I know but I couldn't help it, mother. No, I elon't want anything to eat. .A. cup of toffee 1LS strong as strong as you can make it would do me. I feel rather faint inside." "A drop of whisky, dear," said the mother, thinking that she needed a stronger stimulant. Doily shook her head. "Not that stuff, mother. It's dangerous for me. Get me the cof- fee. What rain! My feet are soak- ed through." She sat down by the fire while,her mother retired to the little kitchen to prepare the .coffee, drew off her titin, wet boots, and spread her chilled hands before the kindly blaze She was shivering, and was on the verge of tears. When the coffee was brought she drank it feverishly, but when pressed to oat she shook she head. "Feed would 01101(0 me, motherie, Sit douln and let uS talk. I know you can keep a secret, so I'll tell you mine. But not a word to Baby or anybody else." • "I'm not a talking machine, so tell me what itis happened." "Harry has got into trouble; in fact, he has mauled Muria°. Says, indeed, that he has killed him, but that I don't believe. He left Ryder Street in the afternoon, and has been wandering about ever since. We met at the stage door and told me what had happened, and after we had talked it over, I took him 'to Mrs. Andottrt," Mr. Vandom .stared in mute as- tonishinent. ,Dolly ,disposed or big events in the most matter -or -fact tone, "The old 'dear was iu her bed when we arrived, but she got up and^ received us in the most matter-or- dourse fasitiort, and let Harry itto. the Moms. There's one advantage about our profession, inother—it prepares us fOr emergencies. But what a baby he Is!" "Was it abbut YOU that they fought?' asked Mrs. Vandomn piexedly, Dolly burst •out laughing. ' "I Very nearly said that I wished It had been, but no etch luck for Dolly,. She's doomed to walk on the outside all tile tiole," else said with motile bitterness. "It's a long story, and I rant go into it, mother; besides, it wouldn't do Any good. It was nay about another woman— at least she Wali at the bottom of It. I was only a sideshow, so to speak, but if he has really hurt Maurice he'll have to pay. INlaurice won't let him off.. He can be iMplacable, when lie likes," "Maurice hasn't been here very muck lately," said the mother mus- ingly. "Where did this happen, then?" "At Ryder Street, and nobody saw Harry either .conie or go—eso ite says, at least. But lie is such a baby that he isn't fit to be out of leading -strings." "You lead him pretty tight, Doll." said the mother with a faint smile. "I'm his pal and nothing more. Do,n't you forget it, mother. That was why he came to me tonight, and I have helped him all I know." "But 11 11 Is true that he has kill- ed Maurice—which, Heaven forbid they won't take long to find him at Alice Ancourt's," Dolly looked up rather quickly. "Mother, you }WOW US well as that wonderful crimes have happen- ed in London, and that folks want- ed by the police have lived openly in the next street and never .even been suspected. They shan't find Harry Kerr, if I make up my mind that he ;shall be hidden, or if I find that it is necessary to hide him. I have seen a good deal of the police in my time, and I think I'm a match for them." Mrs. Vandom recited herself to and fro in the old nursing chair—a relic of days when she had had a real home with a husband to take care Of her, Her life had been Stormy since those days, and it seem- ed likely, to he stormier still with such a elemental creature like Dolly in the house. "It's very good of you tp take all this trouble for Harry Kerr; Dolly, if—as you say—you're only his pal.' "That's what I am to him. I didn't say anything about the other side," said Dolly grimly. Then, moved by a swift tenderness In her mother's eyes, she suddenly burst into wild weeping. Mrs. Van- dom knelt beside her, pillowed the .poor ruffled head on her ;shoulder, and soothed her as if she had been a baby. "If you care like that, why don't you pull up to the scratch and get him to marry you?" she said in the most matter-of-fact tone. "I'm sure that you have plenty of chances. When I was a girl like you I could have married a man in a fortnight's time, if I had seen as much of him as you have seen of Harry in the Past two or three months." "But you see mother, I'don't want to be married in a hurry like that. I'm not like some girls, hunting af- ter the oof all the time. I want to marry a man, and a man who loves me for myself." "Harry's only a boy, dear, and a 'rather silly boy at that," said Mrs. Vandout with a sigh. • "He's that at present, but he has the makings of a man in him, mo- ther, arid some day You'll see. It's these who have brought him up that are to blame. He never talks about WS people be me, bat I mean to see them one day for myself. The don't live in our sordid world, mother, but I suppose that they are flesh and blood like other folks and that the truth wouldn't hurt them. Now listen, If anybody coulee here after Harry, you have never ,seen him, and you know nothing. I oughtn't to have told you, but I can trust you, mother. Can't In—honor. bright?" "Yes, my dear, you can. They don't get much out of me—e•iny of 1110111 that comes here seeking for small change, and Pin not afraid of it policeman," she said tranquilly. 'Now you must go to bed." "1 feel better. Oh, motherie, will be good. I will be good:" The tears rose 111 poor Clive Van- dom"s eyes at that cry—the chila's cry sounding with suck pathos from the woman's lips. I1 was a long time since she had prayed. Prayer did not flourish in the atmosphere of Clare Street, but before she lay down on her own bed that night she uplifted her heart in some strange, taltering fashion to the Power that overrules all, It was for Dolly that she prayed—Dolly, the stormy -heart- ed child whom the woman's heritage of love had come, unsought, in such strange Whimn and with so little promise of happiness. ,(to be conteneed) . " Hay Council The regular meeting of the Coun- cil of the Township w Ilay was held in the Town Hall Zurich, on Monday November 4th, All the members were present. The minutes of the previous meeting were adoptee as read. A number of communications were dealt with and ordered filecl. The following resolutions were passed: That By-law No. 15, 1929, au- thorizing the collection ;charges on the 1929 taxes be read three times and finally passed. That the appli- cation of Earl Geiser for loan antler the Tile Drainage Act be received, and that By-law No. 14, 1929, pro- viding, for loan of $2,000 from the Provincial Treasurer under the Tile Drainage Act be read three times and finally passed. That as the contract between the Hay Municipal Telephone System and the linesmen of Zurich Central has not yet been signed that applications for the positon be advertised for and received by the Council up to and. including December 2nd, 1929. That accounts covering payments for Township Roads, Telephone and general accounts be passed: Township Roads --E. H. Weltin, account $1.40; T. Ayotte, pay list $14.28; R. Geiger pay list $103.32; E. Gabel, pay list $15.00; Stade & 'Weide, cement, etc $120.5S; S. Mar- tin pay list $32,26; John Oesch pay list $7.50; .1. Campbell, pay list ' $1.12; w Boating. pay U..t 410940; Rennie pay list ;32454 Z. Diger pay iist ;9.10; 4. Corrivean pay dist • $20.Q0; A. 14. 'Sreenan pay list 43 6 461CorrugatedCo.,. cos uga e 011verto7,4.01;rt.3ne4ayt$1 1233.001 H. J. Btire pay list $170,- 2.7; 1:t. Dinsmore pay list $.810.27; S. Hoffman pay list .$9.20; C. Aldvvorth pay liet 19.79; III, M. Respell pay list 121.2.50; J. Parke, pey list 82,.4.- 05.; J. M. Richardson pay list 116.- .88; S. McArthur pay list 14..63-; W. Orenier pay list $.3.00; A. Wein tile 4C+4..e31.10. eral. Accounts—J. Reid on Ink Creek 13,000.00; exchange on cheq- nos, Mud Creek $1.01; Rader, selecting jurors 86.00; W. II. Htlig- hoffer ditto 1.0..00; A. F. Hess date $8.00; L. ?mug auto hire re lengin- eer, Black Creek $1e4.00; Tucker - smith Telephone System 1028 rate $13.62; W. H. Haugh, Noxioue Weeds Act, fees, labor 141.99; re- vision municipal voters' 148..85. Mun. icipal World supplies 1861; Stade & Weida, account 11,39; Perth Fire Insurance Co., insurance on Hall 120.00; H. Flaxbard pay Bet 'Zur- ich Drain South $15.27; S. Hoffman pay list Masse Drain 1280,45; T. Kyle pay list Stephen Drain .177.70; L. Schilbe & Sou, coal for hall $23.- 10. Telephone aecounts—Bell Tele- phone Co., directories 1108.75; L. Farrel refund rate $4.00; J, Gaseho, labor 16.10; Can. Tel. & supplies =Aerial $20.00; E. H. Weltin, ac- count $1.00; Northern Electric Co., material $62.71; Zurich Central, switching four weeks 164.00; lei. 0. Delte, salary and car $90.00; post-' ale on directories The Council adjourned to meet again on Monday, December 2nd; at 1.30 o'clock p.m. A. F. Hess, Clerk Dry, Hacking Cough Was Caused lzy A Bronchi0 Cold Mrs. J. Fearman, Selkirk, Ont., writes:—"Early last winter I suffered from a severe bronchial cold that,left me with a provokipg, dry, hacking cough. After being bothered, both day and night, with it for some time had a friend recommend Cr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup which 1 tried...with wonderful results, and now it is the only remedy I. ever use for colds. "I have also used your Milburn's Reart and tTerve PilIs with wonderful restilts." "Dr. Wood's" ee 35 cents a bottle; large family size 60 cents, at all drug - 'gists and dealers. • Ptit etp °illy by The T. Milburn. Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Winter No Bar to Golf in Canada Photograph taken Febmtary 23, 19114, of the course on which the contest is played, with gallery watching players. Lower left—Teeing off—player wearing light clothes shows lnilciness of climate in February at Victoria. Lower right—B. W. Beatty Challenge Cup with atiniature reproductions of the cup for the winners in men and women eompetiticus. The process of snatching the laurels from the brows of California is going right on in Canada. "Our Lady of the Snows" is belying her name in the mita Climate. or Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Announcement has been made recently that the second annual Empress Hotel mid -winter golf tour- nament at the Colwood course, Victoria, will be held from Vebruary 17 to 28 inclusive, it time when the ountry north of the diGth parallel is popularly sup. posed to he feet deep in setew, Photograpbe included m above ley -out Will show this popular belief to be a fallacy as fat as the Victoria course is cOncerned. The mid -winter tournament was placed in the Canadian sport calendar last rebruary under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway and proved a great success. The Victoria fixture is a purely amateur affair, handicap, of course, open to men and women, toinpeting in their own settions. The main trophy it the E. W. Beatty challenge cup, ab ' present held 'by T. 1.,.. Swan and Mrs. Itew Patersoft of Victoria, although a large list of other prites t. being posted. The 'competition is open to all r toria stit clubs anti also tO any visitn. Ora ithat city, a , lit VIeW of the .8126 Of the thtty ltst, au iihk$ I 'Abe. vicinity of the city will be pressed intrvice.