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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-11-01, Page 2THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 1931 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE - TRAIL’S END - by Agnes Louise Provost SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colored roads'ter had been found wreaked in the sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cush­ ing appears at the deserti town ■of Marston. She has bought, •sight unseen, a ranch located 30 miles away. Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor and his man Boone Petry procure a reliable woman for her and in Barry’s car, loaded down with supplies, they start across the desert. In Mar­ ston her reticence has aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne be­ come more than neighbors, and when Anne is lost in the hills 'and rescued by Barry, each realizes that something more than friend­ ship exists between them. FIFTEENTH INSTALMENT “Paula, don’t be frightened! Don’t scream. It is Nancy. I’ve come to warn you. J'irn ih here, Paula, don’t you know me?” “No, no, Nancy’s dead! She’s un­ der the water—-I see her all the time —and it washes over her eyes. Oh, God!” She secreamed again. The pound­ ing horses were at the top of the slope, and Barry flung himself off and raced down, with Gage running heavily after him. A slim figure was backing away, .turning, running, but Paula Gage was huddled in a terrified ,hea>p at the foot of a tree. Barry bent over her and jerked his head up 'again. She had looked at him, for one long, steady mo­ ment, and had .turned her back to him. As though they were two hos­ tile strangers. Knowledge crashed and clamored in his brain. He bent reluctantly over the (huddled wo­ man, but Gage was beside him now. “John, Nancy’s down there! She came out of the water! I can’t go— I’m afraid! I only asked her to go away! I didn’t mean her to die! And Jim'—Dim—” Overstrained emotions cracked and Paula fainted. “We’d better take her into the house.” said Barry constrainedly. He wanted to go after Nancy. Those incredible revelations were clamor­ ing in his head; .they were accusing him. Now he saw Petry's long legs hastening toward them. “Petry, help Mrs. Gage up to the house. I’ll be back as soon as I can.” ’His nervous stride quickened r.o a run. Gage looked heavily after him. Barry ran along .the edge of the lake, his eyes darting anxiously. To­ ward the back of the house he swerved -and caught sight of a flit­ ting figure. “Nancy, wait! Just for .a minute!” She paused in mid flight, looked back just once and went on again. The light figure vanished around the edge of an outbuilding. Long before he reached it Barry heard the scurry of hoofs and saw a piebald etreak flash across the open apace. Nancy had gone. He took it standing, but his face whitened. Nancy had made it pretty plain >that she did not want to see him, just the set of her chin as she had flashed across that patch of light had been enough to tell him that. He set his law and went back to the house. Back of him Jim Kennedy edged cautiously around toward the small­ er corral, where two saddled horses, left to themselves, had wandered back to wait patiently. In the house Barry found that Paula had regained consciousness Petry had just edged out, and Gage was standing a little away from her. ‘She’s gone,’ said Barry briefly. “Was it—really Nancy?” Paula raised herself on one hand. “Is she alive? I didn’t kill her? . . I mean —I—” She broke off with a fright­ ened whimper. “We’ll finish his presently,” was all the reply he gave her. He turned a heavy stare at Barry. "I’d like a few words with my wife in private.” “I’m staying. We’ll .finish it here. It’s my business as well as yours. Nancy is my wife—and you can keep your spur and your damned money but I want to know what you’ve all ■been doing to her.” Gage glared at him. “And what have you been doing to her? The girl I saw out there it Mrs. Gage’s sister, who is supposed to have been drowned five months, and if she is your wife why isn’t she in your house, instead of wandering around' in the woods like a demented wo­ man?” Does Your Stomach Ever Complain? Distress After Every Meal? *0 r e Barry whitened. “I’m beginning to think that she had had enough to drive anybody crazy. I’ve done my own share, and I’m paying for it. But .the jam that we’re in now is due to something that happened be­ fore I met her—it’s due to you, or one of you . . . And that damned Kennedy—” He bit it off suddenly, but Gage caught the name up.. “Kennedy! It always comes back to this Kennedy.” He turned back to Paula. “You’d better tell us all of it,” he said evenly. “What do you know about Jim Kennedy?” “He was my husband. I’d divorced him a yqar before I met you.” “Go on,” he said curtly. “I was awfully young wnen I mar­ ried him. We were poor and lived in a little town. He was there only a few days, and when he went I’d married him. And then I found out that he was just a gambler, and we began traveling all over the coiintiT and—I left him and got the divorce. 1 never saw him again until last May. And then I kot a letter from him, from Tia Juana. He said the divorce wasn’t legal—and I was so frightened, because that meant that I wasn’t really married to you. But it wasn’t true at .all—I found it out later.” Gage’s jaw muscles ridged visibly at the mention of illegal divorce, but he went on implacably. “Which one of you met him at the beach bungalow, you or Nancy. “I—-I met him. I’d sent a tele­ gram to Nancy. I thought it would be 'better if she saw him—he always liked Nancy. But she didn’t get the telegram in time. And I went down myself. I had some money for him. He’d said he’d tell you about the di-, vo.rce—and I didn’t dare let him do that! John—it was because I loved you so.” “And who—who ' shot Kennedy?” “I did.” It was a mere thread of sound. “I didnt mean to. I was afraid of him, because he was so angry with me. I took the gun with me to frighten him. And—he just laugh­ ed and tried to take it from me, and it went off.” A deep shudder ran over her. ‘He looked so queer, and Nancy came running down .the 'beach and snatch­ ed the gun and told me to go oack to the house. And I did. I didn’t know what was happening until Nancy came back and told me that you had found her there and that you throught she was—Jim’s wife. And I begged her to go away, so that you couldn’t question her any more, and it needn’t ever come out that either of us had seen (J'im that night, and if it did it wasn’t murder, it was self-defense. I made her take the money that I’d 'brought for Jim— in case she went away—and she ran out. I heard the car start . . . and the next morning . . . they told me that she’d driven it over a cliff— down on the rocks—with the tide in.” Gage’s mouth was a thin line but he drove his hands down into his pockets and looked away from her. “I suppse I’d 'better tell you the rest, as far as I know. I’d been up­ state on a business trip—drove my­ self—'and found that I could back late that night. I heard something that sounded like a shot, down to­ ward the beach. I have a beach bungalow there, but the main house is back, up on the hill. I knew the bungalow was closed, but I caught sight of Nancy’s roadster with no- 'body in it, so I thought I’d better investigate. I reached the bungalow just in time to find Nancy leaning over some man on the ground, with a -gun in her hand. I saw him try to lift himself and heard him give a nasty laugh and say! ‘Just a little present from my loving wfe!” and drop back again. “It looked pretty bad. I shot a question or two at Nancy, but she just stared at me and looked down again at the man and said yes, he was her husband. Nobody else seemed to have heard the shot, so I told her that because she was Paula’s sister I’d do what I could to hush it up, and I didn’t want Paula in any , way mixed up in it.” John Gage’s strong face twitched.' “She didn’t say much, poor kid, but she looked sort of desperate, and she stayed until I had made sure the fel­ low was dead and then she marched away without a word. “It looked like murder to me, and all I wa.s interested, in just then was in getting the evidence as far away as possible. I got him into the back of my car and drove like the devil, and left him on the outskirts of a town miles away. I still thought Perhaps the most common of all human diseases is stomach trouble, such as dyspepsia or indigestion, and one which causes untold misery after every meaL The great, point in getting rid of stomach trouble is to get back bounding health and vigor, and this may bo done by using Burdock Blood Bitters, as during the past 56 years it has been on the market, it has brought joy and hope to thousands of dyspeptics, helping them to eat throe square meals a day without suffering foi >it, by toning up the stomach, and making easy the work of digestion and assimilation. he was dead, Anyway, when I got back home Nancy was gone and the papers were full of the accident. They said it was the fog. I always thought it was suicide.” He paused and added gruffly: “She’d done some good bits on the stage. Working herself up. And she had just landed a contract out in Hollywood, a pretty good one for a newcomer. She was to sign the next day. Chucked it all >up.” There was a shuddering sound from ‘the couch. Paula looked dear- ily up and dropped baclf again. Bar­ ry felt moved to a reluctant compas­ sion. He couldn’t stand it any longer, he was going down to Trail’s End, A hovering shadow in 'the rear hall resolved inself into Petry. He look­ ed nervous—for Petry. “Thought you ought to know that somebody’s been around here. There is a ditched car a piece down the road and one -of 'the horses is gone, the big roan Mr. Gage was ridin’. I know the car license. It belongs to a fella who’s been staying at the ho­ tel in Marston. Kind of a daredevil lookin’ bird dark complected.” Kennedy! Barry felt a little chill at the thought of Nancy, somewhere along the lonely road, and this man with his dark grudges running loose There was a .sound behind him. Gage had come back. There was an envelope in his hand. He ‘had start­ ed »to open it, 'but he put it back in his pocket. “What’s the matter?” “Kennedy’s around. He has just gone off with one of the horses. Wrecked his car down the road. I am starting for 'Trail’s nd.” “I’m going with you.” At the end of the passage lead­ ing to the kitchen Martha appeared. Her mouth was set primly, but her eyes had a snapping 'brightness. “Ling says there’s kdnd of funny pounding going on in the garage. Who’s out there, Boone?” “My gosh!” Boone swallowed hastily. “I plumb forgot the lady! Miss Cleo—she rode in with me.” “What the devil is she doing in the garage?” “Well you see, Barry, cornin’ back up the Toad I heard somebody scream, and I just shot the car straight into the garage and bolted out to see if I could do anything and I plumb forgot everything else. I musta 'been so excited that I gave the door a slam after me, and that bar drops awful easy. Gets kinda second nature to shut that door, Martha, you let the lady out, won’t you?” “I guess I’d better, Bone.” The car roared down to Trail’s End. There was no one there. Gage said little, tout his deliberate gaze roamed curiously aTound this shab­ by little place where Paula’s sister had come to hide. He read his letter looked grim over it. At the end of an hour Barry was nervously tramping the floor. They started back again, and met Petry on the way. “I’ve been scoutin’ a little. Some­ body rode pretty reckless .for a ways I found this, but whoever lost it was headin’ the other way. North.” It was a man’s felt hat and the initials inside were J.M.K. Why had Kennedy been riding away from the one road which would take him back to town unless he had been following Nancy? And why had' Nancy gone that way, when Trail’s End lay in the opposite di­ rection? “If we follow him,” Barry mut­ tered, “we may find Nancy, or least pick up hei’ trail.” They could do little until daylight came. Barry fumed over lost time and occupied some of it by having Petry drive to Trail’s end again and leave Martha there, while he tooki Captain and followed the short cut. There was no sign of Nancy. Barry went back to wait for daylight. It was still dark when Ling put breakfast before them. Petry, who had already eaten, came out of the darkness on a half run. “The roan’s back, Kinda limps.” “That means that Kennedy is on foot and probably lost.” Barry mov­ ed impatient shoulders. “It’s Nancy that I’m worried about. I’m going .to take one more run down to Trail’s Eend.” Barry slid into the driver’s seat. The greying darkness reeled past them. They drew up .at Trails End. Martha came running out her plac­ id control shaken. “Martha, is she here?” Martha, nodded jerkily. “She’s here and she’s sick/. IShe’s out of her head. She came in an hour ago., staggern’ along 'besides Comet and bringing that man. How she ever got him here, with his .leg broken and her as sick as: she is, I don’t know. Boone, you go straight for the doctor as fast as you can go.” Barry strode in through the open door, with Gage and Martha at liis heels. In the living room, on the built-in couch which he -had made for Nancy, Jim Kennedy lay, his lips tight with pain. He looked from Barry to Gage and a lip curled with a fair imitation of his reckless grin, “Regular family party, isn’t it? Well, I’m down, what are you going to do?” "Yes, you’re down,” said Barry between his teeth, "and that’s all that saves you from being thrashed dear off your feet. I’ll talk to you later.” He went on, toward a 'partly open door. "Nancy!” At the sound of voices outside a sHtn figure had stirred suddenly, pushing away the blanket which Martha had tucked around her. She struggled up, her bare feet found the floor and she swayed on|them, 'talking in a husky whisper. “Must get away! Hurry! I can’t go back.” “Nancy, it's all right now! Every­ thing is all right, It’s Barry, darling Please.” He caught her as she slipped down but she fought him with surprising strength. “You’re not — Barry! Qo away! Wo’t go back.” A capable hand thrust him aside. “There, it’s all right, Niss Anne It's just Martha. You know Martha don’t you? You get in bed now and have a. nice rest,” "Yes, know Martha.” Resistance wilted, but she clung to Martha’s sleeve. “Make him—go away. He’ll tell Barry I’m here. Barry hates me . . . Never go (back. Never!” “You needn’t do anything you don’t want 'to. You just lie down. . Martha coaxed and soothed. Barry drew back, white lipped, and the dark head on the pillow tossed and muttered. "John! Mustn’t let John see me. Paula screamed. . . .everything’s— ruined. .Got to get home—get home —can’t let him—die.” (Continued next week) DIED IN LONDON Dr. James Stewart prominent vet- inary surgeon in Ailsa Craig for years died at his home in London recently following a lengthy illness. Besids this (profession he was for years in the cattle buying business. Surviving besides his wife are a daughter Miss Gladys Stewart in London and .a sister Mrs. Margaret Maointyre, of Ailsa Craig and two •brothers, Alex, of Ailsa Craig and Daniel of East Williams. LEG FRACTURED When a large truck owned by Ball Brothers, of Kitchener, strucki the delivery wagon owned by Messrs. Atkinson & Chisholm, a lad who was helping the driver, .Donald John­ ston, was thrown under 'the rig and sustained a gash in the forehead and a fractured leg. The driver of the truck lost control on the slip­ pery wet pavement with the above result. DOYLE—RYAN A marriage of interest was sol­ emnized on Wednesday morning at nine o’clock in St. Vincent de Paul Church, Mitchell, when Mary Angela daughter of William Ryan, Mitchell, was united in marriage to Gerald Thomas Doyle, son of Mr. and Mrs- Michael Doyle, Dublin. (The bride, who was given away in marriage by her uncle, Mr. Michael Downey, St. Columban, was lovely in her wed­ ding gown of sapphire blue velvet with frilled Victorian hat and san­ dals to match. Her 'Colonial bou­ quet was of orchide, lilies of the val­ ley and violets. 'The bride’s sister, Mrs. C. Percival Laing, Windsor, and Mr. Thos. Molyneaux, Dublin, signed the register. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Doyle left on a honeymoon motor trip, after which they will reside in Dublin. BAYFIELD BEVERAGE ROOMS TO BE CLOSED, SAYS ODETTE Beverage room authorities in" Bay- field will not 'be renewed. Liquor Commissioner E. G. Odette stated Thursday. The matter recently has been causing a .furore in predomin­ antly dry Huron. Bayfield once was an incorporated village, and., as such, voted wet in a local option referendum. Acting on the 1916 statistics, the Liquor Board isused two authorities in the village, but meanwhile Bayfield had dwindled in size, forfeited its incor­ poration and become a police village part of Stanley Township, which is dry by local option. When this was called to Mr. Odette’s attention, he refused renewal of the Bayfield au­ thorities. Sunday School Lesson CHRISTIAN GROWTH Sunday, Nov. 4—Luke, 2:42-52; 2 Peter, l:,5-8 Golden Text The only normal life is the grow­ ing life. Some one has said that the difference between a post and a tree is this: When you plant a post it begins to decay; when you plant fl­ tree it begins to grow. So we are confronted with the question, Are we, in Christian life, trees or posts? A grown-up friend of a. little girl did not see her for quite a long time and. then, when they met each other the friend exclaimed, “Why how you have grown.” "Of course,” answered the little girl, "I wouldn’t be real if I didn’t grow.” Real Christians are growing Chris­ tians. Our lesson tells us what en­ ters into Christian growth. In the mystery of the Incarnation when He who was eternally the Son Of God, therefore "in the beginning with God” (John 1:1-, became "flesh and dwelt among us,” we find, that growth entered into His human experience. As God He could not grow; but when, while still God He became man, He accepted all the experiences' that are common to mankind—except sinning. "And be­ ing found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obe­ dient.” (Phil. 2:8-. So obedience is a secret and con­ dition of true growth. From babyhood on, we read that "the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom” (Luke 2:40). 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The supply of Free Trial bottles is limited. ■ceremonial was over the family par­ ty started on their way northward to their Nazareth home, not knowing that “the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem.” When His absence was discovered Joseph and Mary "turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him,” but found Him not for three days, and then "they found Him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His understand­ ing and answers.” The Boy’s mother rebuked] Him for what He had done, and Hie an­ swer must have surprised, her still more; “How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Mary -had just said to Him: “Thy father and I have sought Thee sor­ rowing.” She knew, of course, that Joseph was not the father of Jesus except by adoption; and our Lord’s reply was a reminder of His unique relationship to God as His only Father. The chapter closes with the signi­ ficant words: “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Yet Joseph and Mary "understood not the saying which He spake unto them,” as He explained His presen­ ce in the temple. One thing is very plain, however The boy, Jesus, at that time and al­ ways, was doing the will of His Heavenly Father. He was concerned only about that which concerned God While His "increase in wisdom” was divine and supernatural, and per­ fect in a way that we as redeemed sinners cannot experience, neverthe­ less it obeyed the same law that God would have us obey; faith in God ^and faithfulness to God’s will. The apostle Peter, in his Second Epistle, tells us what enters into the normal Christian life, which is the growing life. The Revised Version gives us the meaning of the original better than the King James Version which reads: “Add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience; and to pa­ tience godliness and „ to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brother­ ly kindness charity.’” The Revised Version reads; "In .your faith supply virtue and in your virtue knowledge; and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience and in your pa­ tience godliness; and in your godli­ ness, 'brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.” That is, we are not to understand that as we go on- growing in the Christian life we are first to have faith, then later add virtue, then la­ ter knowledge, and so on. We are to have all these characteristics to­ gether, not 'one after the other; just as we are to have, in the normal Christian life, all "the fruit of the Spirit” continually; "love, joy, peace long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control” (Gal. 5:22, 23). (The Gold Text tells us to “grow in grace and in the knowledge of Lord and .Saviour Jesus Christ.” We cannot "grow into grace,” as some mistakenly think. We step into grace by faith in Christ as our Sav­ iour and then at once we are horn again, becoming a new creation. 'From that time on we are "in grace saved by the grace of God through the great gift of His 'Son. Then we are joined to Christ, having been made members of His 'body, branch­ es in Him, who is the vine as we saw in the finst lesson of this quar­ ter’s studies. "I am the vine,” says our Lord. "Ye are the branches: he that abide th in Me and I in him, the same bringelh forth, mudh fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” If we would keep on growing, we must abide in Christ and do. His will yield ourselves wholly unto Him and tr-uist Him to keep us and to live out His life in us. Shingles! British Columbia XXXX X Best grade at $3.60 pqr square A. J. CLATWORTHV Phone Nd. >2, GRANTON Exeter Simea-AiJnorate Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday morning at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—$2,010' per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c, per line of six words. Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks1 50 c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memoriam, with one verse 50c. extra verses 25lc. each. 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