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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-10-16, Page 3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXi BROKEN | 5C -by-- XJS RUBY M. AYRES jf xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ;. WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Chittenliam discovers, to his amazement, that the giy}. beside ^liiiu in the cut appeals to him as no othet woman has evei’ appeal­ ed. And something intangible ■convinces him that her feeling to- . ward hjm is similiar to his own toward her. “Do you. believe in love at first sight?” he asks her, ’ <as the car toils, up the mountain -toward the hotel. At the hotel, after refresh- spent, Chittenliam and Julie found their mutual attraction so strong <as to be irresistible. In the morn- 1 3ng they returned to the town he- * Sow, Julie apparently jubilantly happy. Lombard tells. Ghitten- ' ham that he has made a mistake, that this Julie Farrow is not the < one who ruined Rodney, but her cousin of the same'•name. Chitten-. .. Jiam is horrified. He calls at Julie’s hotel and confesses that lie had tried to win her love for pur-! * poses of revenge, believing her to she the other Julie. Giles goes with his mother to a ILondon night club, where he meets Julie Farrow— his Julie—who is ^drinking heavily and trying to; ap­ pear to be having a good time. A •mutual friend introduces him. He .says he has met • her before, but .she laughs in his face, and de- , «lare;s they have never met. • ,£JOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Oh, no, I don’t think so. He was trot one of those who specialize in his women very much. I think a kiss was just a kiss to him.” She slipped away and they saw her 30111 Essen and Mrs. Ai’dran at the 4’ar table. ' Doris glanced at Chittenliam jand made a little grimace. “Cocktails!”, she said eloquently. “Such, a pity! It’s not like,Julie a Ini. She used to be such a decent ;sort, hut now you really can hardly tell her ’firoin the other Julie. Bred ■in -the bone I suppose!” “Are the two Julies really very much alike, Miss Gardener?” he ask- •»d with an effort. Doris hesitated, pursing up her scarlet lips. “The other Julie is really better booking,” she said after a moment. **Most men call her beautiful, but to' aife . . . well, I used to prefer this Julie until lately.” “You mean—HaS she really chang- .so much?” .Doris laughed. “It may sound absurd, but she has! Every one is commenting upon the fact. She used to be quite different. Then quite suddenly she altered! She ibegan to haunt places like this and jshe began to drink too much. If I 'ididn’t know her as well as I do I should say she has had some rotten Hove affair, but'Julie never liked men. She’s different to her cousin an that respect at all events.” • The music stopped once more 011 Abe fashionable, jarring, questioning mote. “I suppose we must join the others wvhat,” Doris said. “Hark at Julie!, ^y<ou can hear her voice above all this ^racket.” Mrs. Ardron’s face was a study. She was trying to shiile and look as -3f she thoroughly enjoyed the situa- aiton, and. yet there was a timid look an her eyes as il! she were not quite ssirre if it were the .right thing to Saxigh or not. “Miss Farrow has been telling me That she has a cousin so like her that jthey are very often mistaken for one ^another,” she said. “Yes, .so I understand,” Giles said ■rather shortly. • “It must be very awkward,” Mrs. Jltrdon murmured. '“I find it rather amusing,” Julie ■said flippantly. “Y.ou know my eousin, do you, Mr. Chittenliam?” ■“I have not that pleasure.” '“Oh, you’ll love her,” Julie rattled “xnn “All the mdn do. She’s got the Suggest scalp collection in London.” Giles made a little movement to aripe but Julie was too quick for him. “Dance with me, Mr. Chittenliam!’ ,aslie commanded. And before he was iuware of it Giles found Himself back '.again in the whirlihg throng, his arm ground Julie’s slim body, her hand /'•resting lightly on liis (shoulder. Be looked dbw'n at her and felt dhaf it must be a dream. The same, and .yet such an utter­ ly different Julie to the girl he had •held in his arms a few weeks ago. He tried th think of something to ifeay, but no words would come, and Tt wajs Julie who'broke the silence. •- “Isn’t this a filthy band.?” she said disgustedly. He avoided her bye$ as he answer­ ed. ' . . * “My thoughts were so fair away. I was: thinking of a wonderful night you.and I spent together on the top the world.” “Oh, that!” She laughed careless­ ly. '“Fancying remembering ItlJ/Ve all about it ages ago. Fear­ fully uncomfortable, wasn’t it. “And j(So boring, wasn’t it?**, “I was not bored.” “Really!” she shrugged her white shoulders, “Queer man! Lets talk of something pleasant shall we!” Chittenham’s face flamed. “Isn't all this rather—cheap, Julie?” he asked quietly. “For you to deny that we had met before,” She made a little grimace. “I thought you might not like to acknowledge pie. I’m ‘earning quite a reputation, you know, as the bad girl of the family. I believe even Bim—(dear Bim is shocked some­ times! I believe even Julie—the other’ Julie would not he too pleased with me if she knew some of the things I do—” “What things, Julie?” “Oli— just things! men, and things like that.” Chittenliam caught her islender wrist in iron fingers, • “I should like to thrash you,” he said savagely. For a moment she struggled to free her arm, then suddenly she stood very ’still looking up at him. “You did thrash me—-once,” she said. “Bye-bye, every one! I suppose we shall meet again some day. Doris will tell you where I live, Mr. Chit- tenha-m, if you ever feel like running in for a cock'tail and if she doesn’t remember you’ve only got to enquire of the police! I’m well known to the police.” iShe laughed again recklessly, wav­ ed her hand and strolled back io her own corner where she was greet­ ed with ironical cheers and banter. “Shall we dance?" Doris asked and he rose to his feet. He tried not >to see Julie as they went round the room, but islie seem- fed the only real thing in a crowd of unrealities. Laughing, always laugh­ ing in that shrill, reckless fashion! He longed to go across to her and pick her up in his arms and carry her away from the noise and heat and glare, and soothe her into rest and sanity again. sii Bim Lennox sat by the fire, a cig­ arette between her lips, and her feet thurst into a queer-shaped pair of Chinese embroidered slippers. A clock on the narrow nrantelshell had struck four, and Julie was not yet home. It was the third time running that Julie had arrived home-In the small hours of the morning, jaded . and and pale, and trying to pretend that she had .a. good time. “And no man is worth it!” Bim told herself 'almost savagely as she threw her cigarette end into the grate and rose to her feet. ”No man is worth breaking yourself to pieces for!” And Bim knows! For three years she 'had waited and hoped and suffered and told herself, but she had been wrong. The only thing that had happened had been that the’ man she loved had married another woman. “We’re such fools! Such pathetic tools!” .she told herself, as she walk­ ed over to the window and* pulled the curtain aside. Presently a taxi­ cab turned into the street and stop­ ped with a squeaking of brakes out­ side the block of flats. Julie at last! Bim listened ’anxiously. She was not alone. A man’s voice was an­ swering her laughing words, and presently the steps of two people as­ cended the stone staircase. Bim went to the door, turning up the light as she went. “I thought' you were lost!” she said. “Lost!” Julie swept past her into the flat. “Why should we be lost? A fire! How can you bear it! Im so hot I don’t know what to do,” The man who had come with her was looking at. Bim with enquiring eyes, hesitating in the'doorway. “It’s usual to introduce people, Julie,” Bim said. Julie turned. “Sorry I forgot!. This is .... ” She broke into a little laugh. “I’m sorry, I’ve forgot­ ten your name,” she- told the man. “One meets so many people! This is my friend, Miss Lennox—” “My name is Schofield—-Lawrence Schofield,” the man said. He was rather a ordinary-looking man, obviously a gentleman, and not very young. He kept looking at Bim in a half-puzzled, half-apologetic way, and after a few desultroy re­ marks he' said good-night. “Good-night!” Julie twitted him “Don’t you mean good-morning? It’s nearly five.” Without knowing why, Bim felt rather sorry for Schofield; she went to the door with him and offered her hand. “Good-night, and thank you for seeing Julie home.’ Bim bolted the door and came back into the room. J’ulie had lit a cigarette, but It had gone out again, and she was leaning back amongst the cushions her eyes closed, and her mouth drooping in dejected lines. Bim stirred the fire into a blaze, "“Who is he?” she asked. Julie opened her eyes. J’WbQ?-’— Oh, (Schofield. I don’t know. Ho was there to-night, surd he seemed rather like a fish out of water, so I took compassion on him. Not very In­ tel esting, is he?” “Nobody else exciting there ’to­ night?” * “No, at least-—oh, yes!” A Jittie flame lit Julie’s weary eyes. “There was one rather exciting person.. Guess?” “I couldn’t.” “Giles Chititenham.” - “Oh!” Bim avoided’ looking at her friend, and Julie rattled on. “He is as charming as ever!” Julie said airily.c “I danced with him once or twice—once, I think! I asked him to come and see 11s some evening.” “Julie!” “Well, why not?" Julie snapped her eyes open defiantly. “It will be nice to have a fresh man to go out with.” Bim rose to her feet with a little shiver. “I’m going to bed,” she said, * “All right. Pleasant dreams, and thank you for waiting up.” Blm got as far as the door, then she came back. “Julie!” "Well?” “Don’t be a little fool, Julie dear —about Giles Chittenliam . . When we left' Switzerland you .said you hated him and that you hoped you would never see him again. I don’t know why—I don’t want to know, but—” “I don’t know why either,” Julie interrupted ruthlessly. “I’m chang­ ed, quite changed , , , I used to be such a fool—priggish! unsophistica­ ted, But that’s all gone now, and I’m much happier." “Happier!" “That’s what I said,” Julie said defiantly. Bim stood looking al her for a moment, then with a little helpless shrug she turned away. The door closed between them. Julie stayed where she wai, her eyes fixed on the fire. “Changed, quite changed,” she told herself fiercely. “I don’t care about any­ thing any more. Nothing can. hurt me. What’s the use of trying to go straight and be what people call ‘good’! It’s much better not to care for one—not to care ...” She bit her lip hard, and closed her eyes as if in sudden pain. “I’ll make him suffer—I’ll make him suffer—” she whispered.- 3js sft * A chance twist in the wheel of Fate threw Lawrence Schofield across Julie Farrow’s pathway in the Faun cafe. Sfchofield was a widower. His wife had been neuro­ tic and fretful, and for eleven years she had done her best to crush every instinct of joy and cheerineiss out of her husband’s heart. He was nearly fifty, and he could not remember that he had ever had what is called “a good time” in all his life until that night when some chance acquaintance took him along to the Faun and introduced him to Julie. To him she was like a creature from some entirely different world. He was not .sufficiently versed in modern ways -to recognize her reck­ less artificiality; to him she was a creature of light and happiness.. The short ride home with her in the chill, early hours of morning had been a revelation to him. To-night he felt younger than he had ever felt. If Julie would marry him , . . he awoke from bis dream with a start at his own audicity. (To be continued.) SUCCESSFUL ANNIVERSARY The annual Thank Offering -Ser­ vices of the Chiselhurst United Church was held on Sunday October 5th. At three o’clock in the after­ noon a well filled, church greeted the pas-tor, Rev. .S. J. Mathers, of Grand Bend, who delivered a well prepar­ ed discourse on Thanksgiving. Spec­ ial music was rendered by the church choir assisted by Mrs. Rev. A. Sin­ clair and Mr. G. Parlmer of Hensail United Church, the anthem in the afternoon was “Praised in Zion” the solo parts taken by Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Carl -Sitoneman and Mrs. M. Cudmore. Also a mixed quartette by Miss Pearl Harris, Mrs. Sinclair, Mr. Parlmer, Mr. M. Cudmore, sing­ ing “Down Deep in the Sea.” In the evening at 7.30 an overflowing con­ gregation assembled, when the preach er of the day again gave a very ap­ propriate discourse. The choir an­ thems were “Praise Ye the Father” and “O, Jesus Thou Art' Standing”, special mention being made to the male quartette, singing “The Way­ side..Cross” by Messrs Wren, Parlm­ er, Horton and Cudmore, Mr. Cud­ more taking the solo part with Mrs. W. ,J. Pybus presiding pianist. On Monday evening, .October 6th a hot fowl supper was served in the church shed by the ladies of the congrega­ tion, the shed being decorated with evergreen and colored streamers, the tables with colored candles. Fol­ lowing the supper a well prepared program was given in the church by the Colborne St. United Church Choir, London. The thank offering and proceeds from the supper realiz­ ed in the neighborhood of $385.00 These services should be very en­ couraging both to pastor and people as it te one of the rural charges which is striving through church services and (Sunday school to give spiritual leadership to the commun­ ity. EX*U,S, SENATOR PRAJSE$ SARGON Sargon is rapidly becoming a household tvord throughout Canada and the United States. Thousands of grateful men and women from all walks of life have been lifted out of the throes of lost vitality, suffer­ ing, misery and ill health by Its use. In relating ’his experience* with ■this famous medicine former United States Senator Thomas W. Hardwick, who served his ■ state for six yearrf in the Upper House of Congress, and who was later elected Governor of Geargia, said; “I had lost most of my old-tin energy and both mental and physical fatigue came more quickly t formerly. Constipation especially had troubled me for the pas years .and I had become accustUined to 'dosing myself with some or laxative every few days, petite was not' keen and m did not seem to agree tvit they should, Sometimes feel positively wretched f at tim$, .Sargon was^ hig men!d^ to me and I de it, ,'4 “Th't| medicine helped very fl’.st. It gave m -----j don’t kno. my meals m eat with experidhee no ill or after-eStocts! my ca I feel energy, in. bett my pie: but mo er find „ , take lax^ives ajFd cathartics. “I a results an part of the “I take pleasure in endorsing Sar­ gon for the genuine improvement it has brought about in my physical condition.” iSai’gon may be obtained in Exeter at W. S. Howey’s. 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Mrs. John H. Broadfoot passed away at her home in Seaforth re­ cently. Deceased was born in Ayr­ shire, Scotland, 87 years ago, being a daughter of the late William Laidlaw. At the age of ten years she came to Canada with her par­ ents settling in McKillop Township. Sixty-five years ago she was united in marriage to the late John H. Broadfoot and one year later they moved to (Seaforth. Her husband predeceased her 27 years ago also two sons and one daughter but she is survived by a family of five sons and two daughters. »r STOM i»l Gel a bottle, today, from as ' - W. S. Howey, Druggist. It is also being sold by a good druggist in all other towns in Ontario. I I that is of dearCatherine are with friends in of Weston, vis- P. Glavin and SOLD IN EXETER *0 become a stranger to his soil. And Evening rates on "Anyone (station-tO'Siafion) calls now begin at 7 pan. Night tales begin at 8A0 p.m. Just give "Long Distance" the num­ ber yon wanl—it speeds up the sere ice. If yon don't know tl/el distant number, Twice a?week Jinimy stays up until eight- thirty^Daddy is on the road but he doesn’t wanr^io become a stranger to his soft. And SQjrevery Monday and Thursday evening, be pays a visit by telephone. j$lt doesn’t cost much because he waits until f eight-thirty when the lowest night rates begin. It amounts to about the price of d movie for a call and in return he gets something beyond money — the voices of his wife and his little bo^ — a touch of home — moments of affection for them all to remember and look forward to. Many people away from home are using the telephone these days to have tegulat visits with their families. Out-of-town calls 'are so simple to make atid they arte quick and inexpensive. They are the next best thing to being really •home. MT. CARMEL Mrs. J. Rowland and Miss Susie Hartman are attending the C. W. convention in Tilbury this week'. Miss Margaret Ryan, of Detroit, is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. M. Ryan and other friends in the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. P. Sullivan and fam­ ily spent a few days with Mrs. Sulli­ van’s mother, Mrs. Kerns, of Wal­ lacetown. Mr. and. Mrs. Etue and family, of Detroit', spent the week-end with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Carey. Mrs. Walker and spending a few days Sarnia. .Mr.. Frank G-lavin, ited his father, Mr. other relatives here last week. Mr. 0. Hall and friend, of Lon­ don, called on the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hall, last week. "lnfomidtibn" will look it up for yefc. The touch modernizing* thousands old homes . ’i