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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-06-14, Page 2THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE - SHINING PALACE - by Christine Whiting Parmenter SYNOPSIS Nora, adopted, daughter of James Lambert, indulgent old gentlemen has decided to marry Don Mason, who lacked stability. Nora’s mother ran away with a singer who later deserted her and on a deathbed wrote a leter to her husband James Lambert. He came and took her daughter Nora to his home. Now he is anxious to protect Nora from such a mar­ riage when Nora insists, he agrees to give Don a year’s trial in busi- - ness under his son, Ned Lambert, who like his father has a poor opinion of Don. Goaded by Ned, Don is trying desperately to be­ come a business man. Ned and Don had a final disagreement com­ ing to blows and Don left. He and Leonora were married immediate­ ly and left for a shack' in Maine belonging to an artist friend of Don’s. They have since lived in Italy during the winters and one year in Africa where Don wrote articles for magazines. THE STORY And next morning, as if Fate were really trying to make up for past un­ kindness. Don received a note from the editor of an American weekly, to whom he had sent one of his ‘Let­ ters from Cape Town.” The article, it seemed, had filled a long-felt want Cheque for American magazine rights was “herewith enclosed,” and they would be glad to run the entire series during the coming year. The cheque, compared with those received from England for the same material, was almost dazzling; and they both appeared to go a little mad, Nora rushed to the piano; while Don, to the exceeding joy of his small sons, proceeded to dance the Highland Fling. When the music ceased and he dropped breathless into the red lac­ quer chair, Tom Littlefield, who had arrived during the commotion, in­ quired if he should call the doctor, “or are you coming out o’ that con­ niption fit all right alone?” In answer Don tossed him the in­ credible cheque. “That’s yours, Mr. Littlefield; You can blame that innocent strip of pa­ per for this vaudeville act of mine Which was put on merely to celebrate the fact that, for the time being, any­ how, the dark cloud of financial worry has vanished from the hori­ zon. We’re sane again now, and I’ll get back to shingling if that’s what you want.’ Not until the last possible mom­ ent did they leave the place. Never had they left any place with such regret. The weather had been al­ most miraculously perfect for that time of year, a fall long remember­ ed by the natives. Tom Littlefield, possessed of minute directions from Leonora, planned to go on with the work when other jobs were scarce. "It’ll be a real life-saver to me, Mis’ Mason,” he assured her. ‘There ain’t much doin’ here come winter­ time, and I get restless. I’ll be more ■than glad to keep an eye on the place and do a days’ work! now and then; and when you come back next spring things’ll be ship-shape. I de­ clare, I—I’m downright sorry to see WESTERN FARMERS’ MUTUAL WEATHER INSURANCE CO. OF WOODSTOCK THE LARGEST RESERVE BAL­ ANCE OF ANY CANADIAN MUT­ UAL COMPANY DOING BUSINESS OF THIS KIND IN ONTARIO Amount of Insurance at Risk on December 31st, 1932, $17,880,729 Total Cash in Bank and Bonds $213,720.62 Rates—$4.50 per $1,000 for 3 years E. F. KLOPP, ZURICH Agent, Also Dealer in Lightning Rods and all kinds of Fire Insurance Angry Boils Cause Much Misery Why not Get Rid of Them On the market for the past 56 years Manufactured only by THE T. MILBURN CO., Limited Toronto, Ont. despite this disappointment Nora was very happy that summer. Don was always glad to remember lioiw happy she had been. As the months passed, her new home became al­ most as perfect as she dreamed it could be; and even Tom Littlefield admitted that the “ball room” was not too big. “And it’s cosy, isn’t it? prodded Leonora, determined to make the old carpenter give in. “Oh, it’s cosy enough,” he assent­ ed, albeit grudgingly; “but I still thinto if you was to ask me, Mis’ Mason, that it’s all out o' propor­ tion to the size o’ the kitchen.”1 “But we don’t live in the kitchen,” Nora retorted. "And I ain’t ever heard o’ any­ body livin’ in a ball room, either,” snapped the old man. He was a frequent caller, as was thj^ notary at the Port. The latter had a standing invitation to Sunday dinner, which was quite as likely to be served on the beach as in the banquet hall. Afterwards he would find his way into the big living room and browse among the books, sometimes reading! aloud from his beloved poets to Nora, sometimes reading “Peter Rabbit” to the boys. “He’s as good as a grandfather,” said Don one Sunday afternoon when he found the old man with both children in his lap; and then wished he hadn’t spoken because Nora’s face clouded at the words. The summer drifted by, September came, and with it the chance Don was hoping for, something he had kept secret from his wife fearing it cause her disappointment should it not work out. For No.ra had hinted to the little boys that Santa Claus might possibly bring them a “baby sister” and] Don was determined that their mother should not be dragged to Europe if such a. step could be avoided. He knew that the “Letters from Cape Town” had proved even more popular than the American editor expected. There was no reason to think he would not be amenable to the suggestion that was a vast amount of interest­ ing material on their own West. Don planned a series of articles called “Seeing .America First” submitted the idea, and waited impatiently for the verdict. Not knowing that the great man was away on a vacation, the letter seemed long in coming; but it brought good news. The editor con­ sidered this plan "most interesting-” and requested that Don stop off in Chicago on the way west to consult a personal friend of his' who had been over the ground recently and might give him some valuable data. . . . And would he plan so that the first article could be run in Febru­ ary? Nora wept with relief when she heard the news.—'Nora, who so sel­ dom gave way to tears. “I’ve been dreading so awfully to start out again,” she told him, “but this is different. If, as you say, we can stay at San Diego until after New Year’s everything will be easy. I can settle you somewhere, and then go to the hos'ptal for the event. And next spring we can come home for a long summer. Don’t mind my crying, Don.. It—it’s only the heav­ enly relief.” “You poor doar nomad!” said Don tenderly. And then added; "If all goes well darling, we’ll install a furnace here next summer so we can stay as late as you want to in the fall.” "I believe,” smiled Nora, winking away the last of her foolish tears, “I believe you’re discovered the ad­ vantage of a home yourself, Don!” They reached Chicago on a bleak November Morning. Wind was blow­ ing across Lake Michigan in wintry guests, a blizzard out of the north. For two days they were storm bound in ia boarding house run by an old nurse of Constance Venable’s'—one of the many whom Carl’s generosity had helped. ■On the third afternoon when the city was digging out of snow drifts and the sun was making a half­ hearted effort to show its face, their hostess said: Why don't you two go for a. little walk? I’ll look after the children, I’d really like to; and a breath of outdoor air will do you good.” "Come on,” said Don, brightening at the prospect of some activity, "If you get tired, Nora, we’ll drop in at a movie for an hour.” (Continued next week) ; you go.” “And I’d give almost anything to stay, Mr. Littlefield,” Nora confess­ ed. “After all, there’s no place like home, is there?—and I’ve never had one of my own before. Not for the world would I have Mr. Mason sus­ pect it, but I don’t .mind owning up to you that I dread to leave.” iS'he did: yet a happy winter with Constance Venable (who had sold the ill-fated island where Carl met his death, and for financial reasons was staying abibad indefinitely) lay just ahead. Things were going ex­ tremely well when they returned to Main for another summer; and as a complete surprise Nora discovered not only running water in her box stall kitchen, but a small and shin­ ing bathroom, the result of an in­ trigue between her husband and the old Main builder. Not until that summer did she hint to her father of this permanent aiding place. Going to the beaut­ iful antique deks which they had purchased of ‘‘our egg money” as the boys called her (“Because,” the woman explained when Don told her honestly that it -was worth much more than he could give, “them an­ tique dealers is making my life miserable anyhow, and Mis’ Mason never forgets to ask after my sick boy”)—going to that deck Nora constructed the postal card that was to play an important part in her life some three years' later. 'Glanc­ ing over her shoulder asi she finish­ ed it, Don smiled a bit sadly at what he feared was merely another disappointment It was, he observed, a fantastic postal. First came the verse from which the old notary had quoted the day they signed the deeds1. Be­ low this Nora had written her ad­ dress, followed by: “If taxi is un­ available, ta'kle trolley car to end of line and proceed as follows,” after which was a tiny map drawn in red ink{ She said, turning to look up ait Don: “That verse about the shining palace is an invitation, and if it ar­ rives when Dad’s in a relenting mood, he may accept it.” Don said nothing. It sometimes troubled him that in all these years Nora had never lost hold of the con­ viction that her father would reach a moment of surrender. Personally Don didn’t believe it, not after the old man’s silence when, informed of the arrival of his namesake, James Lamlbert Mason. It was hard for D!on to forgive that silence when he re­ called how, spent with the hours' of fear and anguish, Nora had looked up at him from her narrow berth on that storm-tossed ship to say: ’’If, if it’s only a. boy dear, so’ we can name him for father, I shan’t mind —anything. It—it will bring us together.” Well mused Don, turning away from his wife’s eyes, it was a boy, and it had not brought them one inch nearer.. iJimsy was more than three Years old, and his grandfather had not expressed the slightest in­ terest in his existence. It wasn't in Don to comprehend how any one could be s’o tubbornly resentful*—so unkind. Impatient at the situation he once said as much, and Nora ans­ wered: “It’s not just that, Don, You see, he loved my mother above anything on earth, yet she hurt him unspeak­ ably. And, though it wasn’t my fault, perhaps, I hurt him, too. I think he doesn’t dare let me . get near him any more. Don’t you un­ derstand? 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