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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-11-28, Page 3y 11111ll11iiii%iil ij iii 1111111111111101iiiii iiiiilliiii iiiiiii1111111li111111111111f1111111Mt 01?8'3 JYfrac(eE by - .. • ANNA S. SWAN • . 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I11111111111111111 b r - Dolly slept heavily, the dreamless sleep of pine physical exhareetion, and when awoke site ran ilt !ler alightgoten to the sitting -room to look at the morning paper which lay ,on the table. Baby was not yet 111), and her smother, busy in some part of the house, slid not hear her. S1ie took the paper with her, and, tucked up an bed, she scanned its pages 6t rapidly, bat there was not the small est paregrap]t in it relating to • any i.ragedy in Ryder Street. Time paper, - indeed, was singularly dull and de- void ol: exciting news of any sort. .Dolly breathed freely, and she be- gan. to ponder • the events of the past evening, which now• seemed unreal and shadowy that she wondered how much. of Harry Kem'''s tale existed only in his imagination. 13y and by she get up, dressed lie - surely, and having- 'despatched a good breakfast, left the house. It was a fine morning after the rain, the sttu-kissed skies smiling benignly, and a fresh, pure, clean ' feeling preveding the ' warm ana pleasant air: Dolly's spirits rose, and. there was•`enough promise of ad- venture in front of ter to make the day. jinteresting. She sped straight as an arrow to the house of Mrs. I3r.icoe in Ryder Srtreet, and rang the bell. The German waiter smiled upon Iter. in a friendly way as she bade him good -morning. "I have called to :tee err. Maurice with a mesage from a friend. Is he in the houae?" she asked quite calm- ly, though "her pulses were beating a little fas=ter"than usual. 'JYes, but ire is. not to see anyon? Iliees. IT.e is in bed; --•somethings here." Efe !rut his,' hand to his head sign- • nificantly, nodding a ' good many tides. "Oh, 'a bad headache, I see. Noth- ing serious,?" "Not a headache exactly. He had a fit, or something, last night. We found hint lying on ze floor in ze .sitting -room, and ze doctor carie and shook his head very much, and he etas to be kept very quiet." "I see; but the doctor does not' think his illness dangerous, dogs he? "Oh; no. He vile come quite well, if only he is kept quiet." • Dolly thanked the man and, con- siderably relieved,. withdrew. "Now for l3gxutoor Terrace, Ken- nnington," said:;o11y to herself. "Tines are hard, and my money won't run. to a hansom, so you'll have to • wait, Harry, old chap, until the ;stumble 'bus brings me to your door.' She climbed to the top or the first en nibus that passed, and she trundl- e ed off contentedly to inform Harry Ii.em'r'athat all cause for anxiety had Inv removed. She had. enade hem promise to remain indoors until she ehouid conte. • Sitting at the open window of the first floor sit'tleg-room, he saw her alight from 'bus....at the end of the `...street. She also saw him, and wav- '"d .her hand, 'smiling at the same time with a reassuring smile. He was at the door by the time she fepched it, anad she held out her hand with a little laugh. "It's alright, e I have been to Ry- 'ler. Street,= .and he isn't dead yet:' She closed tile door hastily, and they ascended the stairs together. "Dolly, I.ha've felt myself a fright - Sul coward and bounder this morn- - ing,""he said quickly. "If it hadn't been that you were so awfully good to ire Last night,,, and that I had promised faithfully to wait in for this horning, I should have gone to Ryder Street myself: T ant not in the least ashamed of what I have done, and 1 ani ready now to stand up to the conseque7lees," "Very good," said Dolly primly as she pulled off her gloves and drew in a chair. "But if the fairy tale bad actually been true and Maurice ]tad' -turned up his toes you would have been in Queer Street. I don't particularly want 'Maurice to go un- der. kW has always, been very good to ore, but I was promising myself a little racn with. the police over you, and I think that 1 should have ,come in as winner." "It was awfully good of you, Doll, to take all that trouble about me," Kidney and gladder Trouble Mr. �. Comstock, Pincher Creek, Alta., wrltoiu- 'I had been troubled with my kidneys and bladder for some time, and had to get up four or flea -times during tho night. "I tried several kinds of kidney and liver pills, but none of them seemed to :do me any good. • "I thought I would try Doan's Kidney Pills and after taking oue box I have been able to sleep all night long, and I now feel that they are the only thing to take for the kidneys and bladder, as 7 have not been troubled since diking thisone box." Prico, 50 Opts a box at all druggists and defilers, or in ,a i 1 e d direct on receipt of prii e e by Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. said Harry so warmly that her col- our rose. "There isn't another per- son in the whole wide world wito wuuld have clone it, and I wasn't worth your bothering over either," "You're .going to be," she said, nodding sagely, "Now, what are you going to do?" "I haven't made up ny mind just yet. What I would like to do is to leave England and go back to my cousin in British Columbia." "It was a pity that you came back from there—that's what I think, But why not go back home --to Scot- land, I mean—and tell your people that you have had enough of Lon- don lite?" Harry's. face fell a little. "Well, you see, Dolly, I can't ex- actly do that. There isn't anything for me there. I was sort of failure, and there are hard times at Essen - don." "Essendon—is that the name of the place?" asked Dolly with a sud- den interest, "Yes---Essendou." "Would you mind writing down on this piece of paper, harry, the full address? No—I'm not going to write your people or do anything foolish or uncalled-for. I'm not that sort. I Just want to have it for myself," "Well, if it will please you, Dolly,. there it is." He tore a leaf from his note -book and wrote the address in his flow- ing boyish bane!—Essendon, Bord- wiek, N,B„ and Dolly slipped it into her purse. "Thank yon. I wanted it in case you should get into any more soraps aitd.I should find it difficult to get you •out single-handed," she said with a demure look in her bright eyes. "When are you going to grow up Barry?" t`I don't know. I have been ask- ing myself this morning why I had ever been born. It doesn't :teem as if the Almighty had muclrl use for me, does it?" Dolly remained thoughtful with her chin propped on her dimpled hand, "Look here, IIarry. What you've got to do to-day—now, this very in- stant, is to go down to the city and begin work as if you had never been away from it." "Dolly, I can't. I'll never do any -good there. I have been trying to write to my mother this morning, explaining everything. She 'hasn't any idea of whit has happened— unless, of course, Bentley- C;arring- ton has written to her already." "I don't think that he will have done that yet. Just go back, to please, Harry. I don't want you to get off the straight—to get strand- ed. You're very near being strand- ed now, aren't. you? But you don't know what it is like to be actually stranded in London. I do, and that makes me talk like a mother to you. "I shan't be stranded, Dolly. I'll find something to clo. I promise you." "But not anything that would be suitable for you. Listen, Harry." She leaned across the table, and her eyes were at once eager and tender. "I know you better than you know yourself. I want you to go back to your own world, to your own people, and—and to forget all about us at Clare Street. You can't come and go there, as Lionel Maurice does— you are two different men. You'll never be really happy cut .off from your own people. I won't .forget you, dear. We have been very good pals, but I see quite well what is best for you. It's not every girl. that can give up a pal like this, but —but there's something in me that always, somehow, shows me the right thing to do. What I have ad- vised is the right thing for you. It was different last night, dear. You were in trouble that you could not see the end of, and 1 did the very best I could for you. But this is the cold, clear morning and we have got to think of the future—your future. Believe rte, this is the thing you ought to do. Go back to the office, take up the work, do what they ex- pect you to do and—and then she will welcome you back." Harry Kerr stood up, looking at her intently as she spoke these mo- mentous words a little hurriedly and even brokenly because of the stupen- dous effort that they cost her, His own features worked strangely. "You are sending me away from you altogether, telling me never to comae near you or to see you again. By God, Dolly, I c'an't do it. Ii' I went back on my loyal little pal like that I shouldn't be fit to live. There in't one of them all who would clo for me what you have done, or who would step one inch out et their way to do me a good turn. If you don't care, I do. I can't do that, and I won't." She lifted her eyes with a new shyness to his face, and then, with a little laugh of .pure ,happiness, she flung herself on his breast. She had struggled,, and the struggle was over When his eyes wore bent tenderly upon her like that, and when her heart responding to his, what rare had Dolly for the world or for what the world might, say? N'otte—she belottgecl to frim, he was tite only maw whom She had evor loved. Let flee great ladies draw in their skirts as they passed by be should find his lhomo in her faithful heart, V.HA1'P011. CXTII Griselda Speaks til" 'rtith Thoy spout the rest of the day to - THE EXETER TIMES -ADVOCATE E gethc'r, :and Hairy ::upped that night in Clara l:treet as one of the faneu1Y. It was about midnight when he wept back to his own quartet's its the Kennington Read, where be bad decided to retrain. in the meantime. Next mortting he rase at seven, had Itis bath and a good breakfast, and, acting upon Dolly's strict hi - Junctions, proceeded to the city by the omnibus, IIe arrived at the floor .af Blandfield Rause at the sante time as Jatmees Greeley, who stood stock still on the pavement, at once relieved and surprised to see kiln. "Good !Horning, Mr, Keir, This is unexpected." "Whey is it unexpected, Greeley?" inquired Harry Kerr suietly, "I have been a day amtd a half off bu:;I- ness, bttt surely that is not su' It a very unusual' happening." "No, but the circumstances of, your absences is a little unusual. You lett without saying anything, or without leaving any message. There has been a good cleal of anxiety in the douse on your .account." "I an sorry. Is Mr. Carrington here to -day?" "No. IIe has not been here since Monday. Probably he will come up later in the clay. We are very short- handed. Mr, Lionel Maurice has met with an accident ---rather a see - ions one—and he will not be back at business for least a week." Harry trade no remark, but pass- ed before Greeley into the house. He wept -to the cloak-rooin as usual and then 11e settled himself in the *Corner of Gresley's room, where he had been working vwhen itis business life had been interrupt- ed two days before. About eleven Jack came in, and when he caught sight of Harry Kerr in his accustomed corner, ho also stood tock still in sheer amazement. Harry looked up and gave him a careless !tori. "Morning. I'll come in present- ly and have a word with you, Car- rington." "Come now," said Jack, surprised out of his usually placid and leisure- ly demeanour. "All right." ILarry got off his stool, and the two Hien went together into Car- rington's room. "There are just one or two things I want to say to you, Carrington, about what has happened, and then we needn't refer to the subject again, perhaps. i have been a fool." Jack did not try to gainsay it. "I have been largely to blame, but Maurice was acessary—if I may put it like' that. We Have had it out, and we have split partnership. I have gone to other quarters, and now I ant going to work. I believe that is all the explanation which is necessary. Perhaps' you will convey it to 3'bur father this evening, if you should be returning to Brighton and if yon should see him." "He. is not coating up to -day," said Jack, with his keen eyes fixed on Harry• Kerr's face. A most unusual gravity was writ- ten there, and something of the boy- ishness had disappeared. "As I amu going clown to -night I shall see him, but they are all com- ing up to Wilton's Hotel at the end of the week, as Miss Hume's visit costes to an end then." •Harry Herr slid not look interest- ed, and he glanced towards the door. "You have heard, I suppose, that Maurice has had an accident," said Jack suggestively. "It was not an ,accident," was the calm reply. "We hacl, it out, and I licked pint. I don't want to go into details. The incident is closed that is all." ` ' Jack Carrington' !was profoundly astonished, but for the first time he felt compelled to respect Harry Keri', who until now had seemed a foolish, irresponsible person hardly worth considering. A great change, had been wrought in him. Carring- ton could not help wondering. who or what had caused it. Harry's expression did not encour- age questioning, and Carrington himself was too reserved to pry into affairs which-• chid not immediately concern him. I3ut, for the satisfac- tion of those waiting anxiously at Brighton, he would gladly have ob- tained a few more details. "You have left Ryder Street, then?' "Yes, of course. I shall tontine working here until Maurice conies batik. Then, probably, it will be for your father to decide whether I shall go or stay." "Oh, it wouldn't conte to that. After all, you needn't see any more of !tint here than you wish," -said Jack. Then, with unusual 'frank- ness, he added," I have always. won- dered at the intimacy between you and !Maurice. I never could under• stand it." "I don't understand it now my- self, Carrington," said Harry, sur- prised into an admission which he had no 'desire to make, "Well, we needn't discuss the matter any fur- ther:" Where have you gone to live now, may I ask? Have you got de - cont quarters? There are rooms at my place at Hampstead. 1 .did speak about them to you •once, you re- member. I think that we might get on well enough together," "Thank you. It will be better that wo hottld not be together," said Harry evasively.. "Resides, I ant very comfortable. I have got just what will suit the in an inexpenive part of the town," He was about to leave the room when Carrington said somewhat hes- itatingly, "1 ant sure that hllss Hume would like to see you. In- deed, she has said so a great many tunes." Harry's colottr rose, and his lip carted. "1 am , sorry that I can't return the compliment. I'm dobe with that life, tell her. 'i'ou Cart also say if you like, that I have written very fully to my Mother, and that any letters she may be thinking of send- ing to Lssendon will be superflous. 'rite tot's: was etualemel,t' offeneivo and •Cttrringtou, sen ititie where Griselcla 1111 111(3 was concerned, felt Inclined to resent it. harry, how ever, gave hint no opportunity, its 118 immediately left the 1011 ,Jack Carrington spent rather an uncomfortable day. lie .asked Harry out to iunnh. with hint, but his le- vitation was quietly cli'clilteci and Herr went out alone. He was ab- sent for just twenty minutes, and he seemed in feverish baste to re- deem some of the hours that he had wasted of late at Illandfield Hlou.,ta, Juet before. Jack left to eaten the Brighton train in the afternoon 111' had an opportunity of a word with .James Greeley. It has been alroady said that Greeley was a trusted and colifl- dental employee, having beep in Carriugton's service since first he was able to employ lubor of any kind, G-resley was not a clever loan but his solid qualities and Itis deep - 13' conscientious nature made Itim a most valuable asset to the great firth and many houses in the city envied Carringtons' the possession of Jas. Greeley, ":1 era glad to see Kerr back at busi- ness, ,Tames," said Jack. "Ilas he said anything to you at all? There's something about him 1 don't quite make out." "Same here, Mr. John. I have been sort of watching him most of the ;clay. He has lead an upset of, a serious kind, I wish that I knew what it was. I like the lad—Tie's very lovable, and he would clo right well if only he would stick to one tiring ata timeos." Carrington closed the door of the inner room, "I can trust you, 1 know, Greeley, and what I am going to tell you may, as you have to see a good deal of him, help you to understand him and to know how to take hint. He and Mr. Lionel •:Maurice have had a row, and that is the cause of i11r. Lionel's accident." "Indeed. You mean that they fought it out?" "Yes, I understand so. I haven't the particulars, but Mr. Herr has told me that much, and he isn't in a mood that will stand much ques- tioning. The quarrel has some- thing to do with their private life, Possibly Mr. Lionel niay enlighten us when he conies back. If not, then we can't help it. But I should be obliged if you would keep an eye 011 Kerr, and if you could find out where he is living and with what sort of people he is passing his tinto. I am sure that my father would be grateful. He is in a way responsible for him, and he is very anxious, I know. I wired to him this morning that Kerr had turned up at business as usual." Gresley's kind face assumed a graved look. "I quite understand, Mr. John, and I'll do what I can. It's a pity that he didn't get in with the right sort at the beginning. The bad start bas been the ruin of the life 01 many at young man in. London as. prd°ntising as Mr. Herr." Carrington said nothing in ans- wer to the implied reproach on Lionel Maurice, but he noted it all the same. He was himself quite conscious of certain pages of con- science with regard to .Harry Kerr, and Griselda's plain speaking had 'I'II['Jlsi),IY, NOV1 Mi1I ll til, 1039 Over Mts. packw ages are sold each year deepened his own sense of a person- al responsibility that he had hither- to shirked. Jack Carrington was indeed a very good man, occupying his lei- sure time in hae! tucly and country walks, and having no inclination whatever to sample the more excit- ig, though mere vlangerous, side of city • life. And, like many good people who give no quarter to fail- lugs to which they 'themselves are not naturally liable, of which indeed they have no knowledge or under- standing, he enteatained a sort of scorn for the man. who was easily led, Jac!: Carrington, in truth, stood just at the parting of the ways, where he threatened to develop in- to a forst-class prig, and it was well for hint at that stage of his career that Griseida Hume's influence came into his life, When he reached Brighton he found, to his surprise and sheer de- lilet; that Griselda was waiting at the station for him. But if he im- agined that her presence there was a mark of spe''ial favour he was quickly undeceived. (to be continued) PRESENTATION T() Mil. AND .AIRS. HAROLD .HUNTER Last Friday evening a large num- ber of friends met at the home of Mr. and ,ars. Harold Hunter and pre- sented them with two beautiful chairs. The evening was spent in dancing and cart! -playing and every- body enjoyed themselves until the early hours of the morning. The fol- lowing aciclress was read: "Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunter: Dear Friends: It is with a good deal of pleasure that we, your• friends and neighbors, have assembled here to -night to ex- tend to you our heartiest wishes and welcome ]Mrs. Hunter to this com- munity. We have known you all your life in both social and business affairs and have always found you the truest friend• and neighbor. Al- though Mrs. Hunter is a stranger to the most of us, we trust she will soon find us to be her friends also. We are glad to know you are still remaining in our neighborhood and as a token of our good feeling to- wards you, we ask you 'to accept these chairs and hope they will al- ways remind. you of our goal wishes. Our wisi'or you is that you may both be snared to enjoy long life, happiness and prosperity, and may God's blessing reit upon you always, Signed 011 behalf of your friende and neighbor's." On Monday evening, November llth, a beautiful fernery was prestented to Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunter by the Euchre Club, of their neighborhood, and a jolly evening was spent at card playing. The -fol- lowing address was givens "Mr. and Mrs. Hunter; ,.Dear Friends; -As Mem- bers of "The Big Four" the feel that we cannot let an opportunity like this go by without meeting to show in some- way our feelings towards you. We are, very glad to welcome ltfrs. Hunter to our community, and we ask- yeti to accept this token of our feelings. We ]tope. to continue our good times: together as in the past, and trust that you May both be spared to enjoy a long an: happy married life and every ' blessings. Signed on behalf of "The Big Four." ---Charlie Dobbs, Raymond Green- lee, Jack Hunter." A d C id Finally Ended in rlfncies m Mr. Albert Schultz, Iielvington, Sask., writes:—"Por several weeks I had a very bad. cold, and finally it ended in bronchitis. "I had been trying all kinds of medicin , but none of it seemed to do me any good. "Finally I says, where Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup was advertised As .a, relief for bron- chitis, so I got a bottle and after I had taken it I started to improve, and by the time I had finished the second. one I was entirely free of my trouble." Price, 35 cents a bottle; large faanily size 60 cents, at all' druggists or dealers. Put up only by The T. Milburn Co.., Ltd., Toronto. Ont. Treasure Trove ©n the Spanish Main It is no wonder the buccaneers loved to rove the Spanish Main. Something more than pieces of eight must have intrigued them; surly they ,were men Of taste in spite of their bad habits! • Today pirates and privateers spend their hours with Davy ,Tones and there Is no more violence worrying the fates of the West Indies. But the true treasure is still there, for the world to enjoy, f The Canadian National Steamships are making preparations to lay the beauties of the West Indies open to treasure hunters this winter, arid many. travellers 'havo already Made ar- rangements to gds to Derzitude or Jafiialca, ot:all the way down to Demera?a. 'rhe photographs show one of the beautiful Canadian National steamers, the Lady Somers, ict .ramaica, and two typical sceires which are•enorigli to make .anyone's ittouth water, the cocoatttt carrier, and the bananas going aboard this Ladr Rodney .,, Kingston.