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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-10-15, Page 2' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1981 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE “The Silver Hawk ?? BY WILLIAM BYRQN MOWERY “What made her leave the Trans- cont, Jim?” Kansas demanded, “And so dog-gone furtive, and then run away from me lilt® a flushed deer? And where’d she go to? There’s a. tough nut to crack; where could she have gone?” I He asked the question as though’ he were quite confident Porn would| Illewahacet and get the trusty old set his logical brain to work and an swer them forthwith, But Dorn did not reply. While he smoked through half a pipe, he turned the puzzle all around in his mind. Only one thing could he be sure about: this girl was in some trouble. To judge from hei’ actions, it must be desparate trouble. “D’you suppose,” Kansas queried, “that she’s trying to get away from the—law,, Jim?" '“Off hand I’d say no, a wilderness is the poorest possible place to hide in unless you’re deep inside of it; and she, a girl like he-’, she could n’t foot-sxog a mile in these moun tains. A big city, the bigger the bet ter would be the natural place she’d break for if she were trying to es cape the Law. But how many people ovex* there at the station did you tell about having seen her?” “Nobody. I figured that only a close friend ’ud believe me. But why?” “Well, you mentioned wanting to help her. Seems to nxe the best way to do just that is to keep quiet about her. She wanted to get off there without anybody knowing it. Why—I can’t say. It’s none of oux- affair. But she appears to want her business kept secret, and it wouldn’t be a very handsome trick to give her away.” “You’re right,” Kansas agreed, after the fact had been pointed out to him. “Dead right. I won’t tell a soul. But I’d sure give a leg—I’d give both legs!—to know what’s back of—Jim, if you’d only seen her as she stood on those steps, and f then flew into the shadows and flit- ted away from me like a scared ghost!—i—Lord, she’s over there now, so-mewhere’s hiding!” Dorn, merely nodded, his face a mask. He had already decided, in his quiet deep-thinking way, that when the old dance ended he would go over there and talk to old Luke Indian like a bloodhound on the girl’s trail. He had no intentions of intruding oi' being officious with of fers of help, business. in the bush around there ought to keep a watch over Most of the Metis men at Titan Pass were clean-souled of foux* of them— with Joe yoroslaf- ruffians. If they should come upon a white girl, alone, unprotected— they had lonely trapping shacks back in the inaccessible ranges. Her business was hex* But if she was hiding out someone her. fellows, but three -men of a kidney —were bush-sneak .put CHAPTER III The Song of the Mountains At midnight Kansas rose and on his flying togs for the flight home to Eagle Nest. With a flash light Dorn went with him out to his plane. Back ashore he saw the machine take off and watched till the rope of flame spewing from the exhaust spiralled to a safe height and vanished ovex* the peak-line of the Eastern Titans. The dance had stopped, but Dorn still heard laughter and saw the twinkle of candles in. the metis cabins. Waiting, lie waned against the rough bark of a cedar, sleep less, his mind running on the the strange story Kansas had brought to him. Forty yards out on the water his Siver Hawk, a specially built mono plane with automatic photographic instruments, lay asleep at its moor ings- where two huge boulders pro tected it when storms wokez,up the lake. A glory of plane construction it was Dorn’s pride, and he groom- I wide expanse of sweep. no way different others Dorn had was howling That Terrible Pain in the Back Was Soon Gone Mrs. H. Oickle, Caledonia, N.S., writes:—“For several months I was bothered with my kidneys and thought I would never obtain relief. I received one of your Almanacs containing testimonials from women who had obtained relief from Doan’s Kidney Pills, so I purchased a box and they did me. so much good I got two more, and after using them found that terrible backache was soon gone.” Price, 50c. a box at all drug and general stores, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milbum Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. ed it with his own hands. Because of its powerful engine it was the swiftest pontoon plane jn three provinces; and equipped with super charger, it had a ceiling so high that he could soar above the deadly afi' chasms of lxis dangerous terri tory and film a wilderness at one The night was from a thousand known. The wolf again; and it seemed to him that the long-drawn cry epitomized all the wild loneliness, the hazy, blue distances, the elemental savagery of the northern Canadian Rockies. Somewhere in a spruce-top a soli taire was singing to the xnoon. In the shallows around lxis island the shrill- cacophony of “knee-deep” frogs had silenced. Under the slant moon rays the mountains were stupendous masses of dark sil ver, but the sky-line of their rocky pinnacles and high neves was pen cilled, traced, with a border of bright golden. -Once however in that half hour, he was struck, was roused, by the unusal splendour of one shooting star which flared into sudden bril liance in the Milky Way and shot across the face of' Venus and van ished again into the nothingness- it had come from. , Gradually, waiting foi' those candle-lights to go out, Dorn ceas ed to bother himself with the pro blem of this strange girl. His thoughts went elsewhere. In! the dead quiet of the night he heard the low crooning song of the moun tains; the murmur of innumerable waterfalls, the whisper of faraway avalanches, the voice of the wind soughing through pine and1 spruce. As he stood there watching old Tit an Major wreath himself in belt and plume and epaulettes- of moon-sil- Ixxnocently Dorn snapped on his vered clouds, the earliest shadowy recollections of his babyhood came trooping back, fraught with the pain of an irreparable loss. In his later life Dorn had pieced together that whole Story of his babyhood down in the East Kooten ay. His father was a timber war den, and their cottage stood at the edge of a pretty village, now a ghost hamlet, foi' ‘/.progress” had •meanwhile come to that region and turned it to fire-blackened hills and scrulbby second growth and aban doned mine slag heaps. Very, very dimly he could rem em ber a big young man, with dark eyes and dark wavy hail* and beard stubble scratched a baby #• cheek, who used to take him out into a flower garden and romp with him and, pointing up at a towering white-capped peak, tell him huge stories of bears and frost-gaints and battles between them in rocky caverns, And he remembred a girl of golden hajr and. blue eyes und laughing toss of hex' head, who would come out and join them ixx the twilight and ten hixn gentle stories of elves and their butterfly steeds and fairy grottoes and sprites who lived in the cup of the aval anche lily^ they would girl, when if in stories terrible bloody battle between the gaints and the bears. And how his father, when the moon deepened in to silver and the chill of twilight came on, invariably gathered them tooth up in his arms and carried them back to the house. Most vividly of all, Dorix remem bered that bewildering'autumn cjtay at the first fall of snow when his mother did not dress him in the morning and when a large con course of people came silently to the cottage and piled the tiny par lour Wjth flowers and spoke very softly to pis fatliex* who was- there alone. And he remembered there- aftex* one othei- evening in the pearly haze of Indian summer when just his father and he went out again to the garden. But the’ girl did not come out to them, however much he wondered and kept asking foi* her; and lxis fatlxex1 did not romp with him and told him no more stories, but sat very -silent, his face as gray and hard' as stone. The tragedy of that autumn day drove his father into joining the Klondike,, hegira to forget. Leaving* Jinx with a friend whose friendship* quickly cooled, he went north and hardly two months after his young wife died, he and, his cog-team went through the mush-ice of treacherous Lake Le'barge. Dorn could not think of them as parents. They had been too young —no older than himself now; and liis recollection of them was shroud ed in the mist of years. But the memory of that girl had come down across his life like the scent of lTesli ■violets; and the impression lingered that his father had been a maix de liberate and virile as a mountain. Even now, aftei' more than two de cades, the song of the mountains awoke the poignant, . pain-shot memories of a wild-flower garden and of a girl herself a flower, and in the- rumble of a distant aval anche he heard his father speaking. All during liis bleak! childhood and his hoodlum period of his aim less wanderings, those first three sunlit years had been a powerful, subtle leaven in Dorn, drawing him toward a manhood like his father’s, holding him with more than ordin ary constancy to an idealaOf woman kind, and reassuring him, through those lonely, blue-devilled years, that there was such < a . things; as happy and sunny life in the world— perhaps attainable for him again, somewhere on ahead. While Dorn waited there in the black shadows, intentUng to go ovex’ and see that the strange girl did not meet mishap, a call came- quav ering across the moonlit waters of Lake Titan. Low and cautious, it hardly rose above the drowsy mur mur of the night. . deem Dooorrnn And remembered how laugh, the man and the he pushed aside the eb and demanded another He guessed that all this secrecy was somehow bound up with that secoxxd person, for .old Rorgelot’s life and dojngg had no dark corners to them. Dorn’s smile faded ,and he forget the whispering of the mountains, and his reverie mood was brushed away. As the boat nosed past his plane he stepped to the wave edge and peered sharply at the craft, try ing, to get some intimation who that other figure could be, Rut the moonlight was too subdued, and as the boat came close, it glided into the black shadows- fringing the shore and was blotted out. When it rubbed against his own canoe lie reached down and pulled it alongside on the landing, Old Bergelot rose up creakily and got out beside him. The other person, rising too, stepped up into the prow and stood there in the velvety dark ness, within arm’s reach of Dorn. In the awkward silence the old man cleared his throat and rumbl ed and made some irrelevant com monplace remark about the weather. But Dorn did not hear, was not lis tening, For he had caught the aura of perfume, and against the lightex* background of the moonlight he saw that the dark silhouette was In a flash he realized Exeter Eatabltohed 1873 and 1I3T Published every Thursday mfrstefe at Exeter* Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—? 2.00 per year Mt advance. RATES—Farm or Real Batata W gale 50c. each Insertion fox ltraf four insertions. 25c. each *•>••** quent insertion, Mlscollaneona ar*- tides, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, at Found iQc, per line of aix voHMtt Reading notices Card of Thanks veFtisln^ 12 and Meaiorlam, with , extra verses 25c. Member of The Canadian W«<k3f Newspaper Association. 10c. per line.-' 50 c. Legal |4*>; 8c, per lint. BY one versa- H* each. Professional Cards It K o The that had been a ped his listened the call ing it— “Dorn . Dorn straightened up, alert, sound was so low and guarded he could not even be sure it human voice; but it snap chain of thought and he intently. A second came wavering. No -a human voice, his ' He cupped his hands. What’s th© trouble?” From the southeastern ovei’ toward the station, the came back like a muffled ecl; a “Vlous la dehors. . . alone) . . M’-sieu Jeem? I am. vers to you . , . Dorn recognized the ly old Pere Bergelot. ed the hail, he smiled, miles south at Canoe, Benvelot. had an aged sister whom he had not vis ited in years. No Tailroad led there; the trip afoot was too ardous for a man of sixty-eight. Tomorrow being Bunday, Dorn had offered to fly him down there for a few hours. He believed now that old Bergelot was over-eager, like a child who gets up and dresses before daylight on “vis iting day.” Out on the water beyond his monoplane he presently saw a creep ing mottle of dark shadow and the moon-light glistening on wet Oar blades. Gradually the lxxottle shar pened into a boat and two blurred occupants. It was probably old Bergelot row ing, blit who was the second figure sitting in the stern? flashlight to guide them in. Berge!ot’s voice, guarded and husky, startled him. “CaCh* cette ltimiere-la, M’sieu Jeem! Keep dark I can feel in to the landing.” ,Doi’n was astonished. The Warn ing meant—ft could mean nothing else—that Bergelot was afraid that other people,, over at the station might see the glimmer. A smuggler oh night business could hardly have been more cautious. time xnistak- naxne. “Hello! shore, answer rowing a tra- voice of kind- As he answer- A hundred the figure Of a girl, quicker than thought, -that here was “the -brown-eyed queen, the scared ghost, the pretty ghost” who had upset Kansas Eby’s world! (Continued Next Week) The girl—-So you’ve seen Daddy, darlinig. Did he behave like a la-mib. iSuitoi’ (grimly) Absolutely. Every time I spoke he said Bah. McDonald—hedden Bethel Presbyterian Church, Birr was the scene of a pretty autumn wedding recently, when Rulby Char lotte Eleanor, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel He'dden, of Dan- garth street, London, formerly of Crediton became the bride1 of George Lauj’ence McDonald, young est son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mc Donald Briscoe Street, London^ for merly of Birr. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. W. Moore. Miss Irene McMillan, cousin of the groom, who played the wedding music was gowned in apple green taffeta, trimmed with brilliants and wore a black deriby hat and acces sories to match. She wore a corsage of snapdragon and fern. The church was beautifully decorated with bate* kets of autumn flowers and fern. The guest pews were marked with purple heather tied with large white satin bows.- The charming young bride; who. entered the church on the arnx of hex’ father, was pretty in her- gown of white satin lace ixx ankle length with long tight-fitting sleeves which partly covered the hand. White silk gloves and white kid shoes were worn. Her long flowing veil was of embroidered silik net, caught with orange blossoms worn far back. She carried a shower- bouquet of Talis man roses, white asters, maiden hair fern and lily of the valley. The bride wore a pretty necklace, .a- re cent gift of the groom and a brooch a gift from her mother. As it was a double ring ceremony the rings were, concealed in a silver basket filled with variegated snap dragons and gypsophelia, which WCB carried by Dorothy Kydd, of Exeter, cousin of the bride,, gowned in rose petal pink georgette and wearing a bandeau of pink satin ribbons. The bridesmaid, Miss Crissie Mutch, of Thorndale, wore a .becoming ankle length gown, of star gold georgette and lace, a black picture hat and ac cessories to match. She carried a large sheaf of variegated mauve as ters and fern. Miss Dora McDon ald, sister of the groom was the ma-id-of-honour, wearing maize flowered chiffon ovex’ pink with black Eugenie hat and accessories to match. Her arm bouquet was of deep pink asters and fern. John Hedden, brother of bride, was the best mant The ush ers were Geraldine Hedden and Jean McDonald, sisters of the bride nad groom, the former wearing re seda green, crepe trimimed with white and a white bandeau and corsage andn a white bandeau and corsage of white asters and fern, the latter wearing quimper blue flat crepe trimmed With black; velvet and blue bandeau and corsage of pink asters and fern. During the signing of- the regis ter Mrs. Moore sang, “I Love You Truly.” Following the ceremony a x'ecep- tion was held at the home of the bride’s parents. The guests num bered 40. The house was decorated With a profusion of autumn flowers and fern. Mrs. Hedden, the bride’s mother, received in a cocoa brown crepe gown, with hat to match and slxoulderotte of cream roses and fernt Mj*s» McDonald, the groom’s mother, wore black georgette with hat to match and shbulderet'te of red roses. ■ The table waitdesses were Mrs. Jas. Arthur, Miss Marlon Miss M. Edwards, Miss E. Miss M. 'StedL Later a reception was cotterill’s Hdll, Wdllingtoh Road some 7>5 guests wsrd entertained. the Richard Faultier, hold at GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Money to Loan, Investment* !£•<««. Insu.ance Safe-DepoBit Vault for use •! •«$ Clients without charge EXETER LONDON HEN&AEJL' CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS. INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Main EXETER, ONT. 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O. or RING OSCAR KLOPP LICENSED AUCTIONEER Honor Graduate Carey Jones* An<k tlon School. Special course tak«< in Registered Live Stock (all breetfn$ Merchandise, Real Estate, Farai Sales, Etc. Rates in keeping wltlf prevailing prices. Satisfaction as sured, write Oscar Klopp, ZurfcJfy or phone 18-93, Zurich, Ont. CONSULTING ENGINEER S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.Jft O.L.S., Registered Professional JEn* glneer and Land Surveyor. Associate Member Engineering Institute . at Canada. Office, Seaforth, Ontario. The groom’s gift to the bride wass a silver tea; service, to the brides-* maid and soloist silver candlesticks* to the flower girl a necklace and! bracelei silver tray bracelt and necklace, m<itn was billfold, •Guests Credlton, Lucaii, The young couple will reside inj Wharnclffe toad South London. to the maid of honour aS- and to the ushers a The grodms— presented with a leatherr were present from Exeter* Brinsley, llderton art®. A V