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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-07-29, Page 201HURSDAY, JULY 29ih, 1937 THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE porch. CHAPTER X ‘RECKLESS LADY’ BY VERA BROWN Tuesday Karen walked to* the general store to errands for Lucy. She Stamping the snow from The store was postoffice, mar- eom- two du en- her glass amazing Here a package of hat­ ^lllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll On miles some tered, boots, clothing store, bake shop, meat ket and shoe store to the little munity. Karen liked to look at the showcases, filled with things. pins, -old-fashioned, businesslike hat­ pins. And button shoes. "Turn on the radio. I hear the news broadcast,” called. "Put it on so we what they say about that wealthy one, that ran away.' She Learns Truth The radio voice b'egan its narra- iton. Karen paid no attention until suddenly she heard her own name. Head down, she leaned against the counter. For a long time the voice stopped talking Karen did not want to someone can hear girl, the if place? Lucy? Lucy loved her,- Karen knew. But Lucy would feel duty bound to report anything to her fa­ ther, try to protect Karen from her own impetuosity. "I’m going back tonight!” Still standin- there in the snow, Karen began to make her plans. Somehow she had to get a car. No use try­ ing to rent one, that would be .fa­ tal. Besides, she couldn’t get one without identifying herself. Karen finally circled back to the road, and started on a brisk walk to kitchen on her answer, to keep on such gasoline .move. “Here’s youi' groceries,’’ the store­ keeper's wife called to Karen. She (had to speak twice .before the girl heard her. Karen walked over to the counter and paid for them mechanically. Mrs. Bents tried to sell her some mittens. They had some conversa­ tion. Afterward Karen could not even remember it. .For now Karen knew. She knew' why they’d wanted her out of town. Two- scrubwomen coming from their night’s work at the scene of the wreck, had been mowed down in the path of their car. Karen shuddered. That’s what they hit—the poor women—with children, women who had to work to support their children. The girl walked out into the early twilight. “She’s the queerest girl, up there at 'Farrington’s place. She don’t hear you when you talk to her, and she walked out and left the -here on the counter aftei* me for ’em.” Mrs. Bents husband as they closed up that night. groceries she paid told her the store CHAPTER IX and it When arcund slowed wanted to question Karen Mallory, call- richest girls in the ‘coming­ way the her the syllable the house. She entered the stamping her feet, laughter lips. “Lucy, I’ve gone mad!" claimed as she pulled off her little red cap. “What is it, my dear? Lucy turn­ ed from the cook stove, where was cooking their supper. “Here I tramp all the way to village store and then walk without the stuff!” and tied send gets “Won’t they be closed ,by then?” “Don’t know. But the Bents will open for Hiram.” "He’s cutting wood, ILucy; why not let me go back?” “Walk t'hat again? And it almost daik, now? Don’t be silly, Karen. You’ve tramped enough for day!” “Tramped? Why not let me the flivver?’ • Her Plan “Karen Mallory! You know are not supposed to drive! Suppose something should happen? We’ve got ■troubles enough.” Karen suddenly. stiffened at Lucy’s sharp retort. License! That meant Stoddard. The girls’ hands clenched as she thought of that spanking! She’d-get even some day! What must he think now? He’d be certain she was there when the ac­ cident happened. iLucy knew as well as though she had spoken what was ’in Karen’s mind. “I didn’t mean to be cross,' she began, “You weren’t dear. Of course not. Forget it.” .She walked away and started to take off her mack­ inaw. “But it is silly, dean, to. be such a sticker for detail. What could happen? I won’t meet a car on the road. You know clear enough so I “No.” ‘All right. I was helpful and think of poor Hiram—” Then she paused. “Besides, you old fibber, you’re not worried about the darned license. What worries you is that I might irun away!” Lucy’s face flushed. “Confess now, that’s it isn’t it?” she said as she gave Lucy a hug. “Suppose it is!” 'Lucy countered. "That’s silly. If I wanted to run away, I’d run. You know me wejl enough -for that.” "I’m afraid I do.” "All right then, be a good girl. Dig up the car keys, and I’ll be back* by the time the stew is done. I’m starving, by 'the way!” Karen could see Lucy was waver­ ing. ‘ILucy, look at me. On my honor as a Mallory! I’ll be back in twenty-five minutes!” Lucy finally gave up. into her bedroom and key, When she came was humming softly to a moment the woman ings. she ex- she the out ‘Oh. dear! We’re out of pepper soda, Karen!” lines between Hiram down back from the Lucy had wor­ ker eyes. “I’ll as soon as he woods.” one take you that. And it is won’t get stuck. just trying to be Karen pushed along through the new-fallen snow. She walked, fast until her breath came in short gasps her mind was a turmoil and. she was unaware that she kept repeat­ ing aloud: “No! No.!” Almost in rhythm with her swift­ moving feet, she spoke as though she seemed, to feel if she protested enough, this thing would turn out to be untrue. * She made the two miles, seemed like nothing to her. she suddenly saw the lodge the turn in the road, she down. She could not face'Lucy yet, not until she knew what she was go­ ing to do. For Karen knew she had to take some action. But what? She circled about and cut across toward the wooded country back of the lodge. Finally exhausted, she climbed on a rail fence and sat there a long time. Tears streamed down her face. That accusing radio voice! It was not what he had said .But the bare facts spoke for themselves. The pros- cuting attorney Karen Mallory. “The wealthy ed one of the world was celebrating out party.' ” That is commentator began. Karen remebered every cf the next words: “The families of Mrs. Rose Marietto and Mrs. Mary Rosaldo, scrub women who were coming from their night’s work, are left destitute. It was Miss Mallory’s $25,000 automobile that snuffed out the lives of the.se two women, whose nine children today are left alone in the world.” New Plans Whatever the world might say of Karen Mallory, she was not without courage. It might have been of the reckless or foolhardy variety, but it was courage just the same. And her years as the “richest girl in the world” had taught her a lot of things. It had taught her that attorneys and herself did not always see eye to eye about the responsibility. Karen got slowly down fence, woods them! But should No use appealing to her He would trust Jimmie Lawton’s ad­ vice. There would a long legal battle, fought by representatives of the insurance comapny. * . She remembered Lawton's mark once, when there was a suit against her father: “We’ll pay, of course, Mr. Mallory, but not so much, not after three or four weeks. The thing to do is to tire everybody out.” 1 - ® Karen, seemed to see the nine on his face until his wife’s sharp children, looking accusingly at her.’ voice (recalled him. How could she get away from this matter of from the the quiet “I I killed them. Just as what should she do? she turn? Standing there in she spoke aloud;killed sure?” Where father. re­ too. “Wish this these Kalip door. lillllllllllliillllllHIlillillllilllllllllllllllllln body with dark eye? has light hair,” Mrs. Brents told her husband sharp­ ly when he had come in and closed the door. Birents did not He had long ago learned his own personal opinions matters entirely to himself. Karen stopped at the station down the road. After she’d paid for the groceries she had only a little money left. But she asked the man to give her all the gasoline the tank would hold. She smiled on him, you had another flivver key, oe’s going to break off one of days,” she said. "I might look. I think Ben has some. He’s just next Maybe we can find one that’ll fit.” There was a lot of fussing about and trying of keys. For a while the girl despaired of success. Finally he found a key which would answer the purpose. With only’ ten cents left, Karen drove back to the lodge. [ -She’d have to explain about the. money. She settled that difficulty j with speed. Into the deepest drift 1 as she sped along she threw her little change purse. But the she kept securely in her pocket. When she turned into way she could see Lucy standing at the window. Poor Lucy! But this had to be done. Now just one more finesse. Karen turned the car around and backed up the steep grade into the garage. -She looked when she got out of the car, before she cosed the doors. Lucy was no1 longer at the window. The table was set and the kit­ chen cheerful when Karen came in­ doors and dumped the package of groceries oil the cupboard shelf. "Here’s the car key,” she said, tossing it to ILucy. "Pet, I lost my purse in the melee, but it only had- a little change in it.” “My child, you’re careless.” “Think of all the things I have on my mind.” Flight Again Lucy did not hear, for she’d gone to hide the precious key safely in her bedroom. Karen was unusually gay that night. She kept Lucy in laughter, When Lucy went out for wood, Kar­ en investigated the housekeeping money and helped herself to' $4 and some change. She found an­ other $3 in change with the post­ age stamps in the desk. It would have to do. ■ Fortunately she could plead that she was sleepy, and it was only a little after 9 when' the two- women ■retired. Lucy helped - Karen get ready for bed, raised her window, kissed her good-night. The girl lay there a long time planning, listen­ ing. She waited an hour, Hiram had stamped up to bed in the ser­ vant’s quarters. Deep stillness set­ tled on the house. Karen dressed quickly. She took a blanket, opened her door slight­ ly to listen, and then climbed quickly out her window onto the but she was drive when thing which wretch!” she sound seemed the girl. "It and she went extra key mackinaw the drive- They’d never dare try She was sure of that, to be New York. •to stop he; They wouldn’t want the police know. And besides, they’d XRt sure where she’d gone. (Continued next week) Three Hurt atOn their way to attend a picnic Bayfield three young Winthrop resi­ dents fered when being their way to a picnic being people of Win- when the acct- bend The step- was to those each a The oldest should The porch creeked under Karen's step? after she climbed . out the window. But she was away from the house at last. At the garage, It teak her a long time to open the doors. They seemed to make a liomible noise in the night. She waited a long time, but the lodge remained silent and dark through the tailing snow. Then she got into the car. With .ear and trembling she released the emergency brake. She trusted that it would run a long way down the driveway before she’d have to try and start it. ‘If it only starts without trouble!” she prayed. The car and the girl rolled sil­ ently out of the garage. The heavy snow halted its rolling, headed well down the the car stopped. There was still one must be done. “Now start, you said to the car. Grind! Grind! The like a pistol shot to isn’t goin« to ;go!” But it finally did, out cf the yard as fast as she dared. If she could get to the road before anybody inside the house awaken­ ed, they would not know, that is, not unless Lucy went into her room Into the Night Just before she turned the of the road she looked back, house was still dark. Then she ped on the gas. Mile after mile the girl rushed through the snow-storm She met little traffic. As she drove she had only her troubled thoughts for com; any. The first thing, of course, make some pr, vision for children. She’d buy them house in the 'country, •boy, if he were ambitious, go to college. Karen fancied herself at some distant date going up for his commencement. She’d get housekeepers for the smaller children in the two families She made great plans. But now and then more disturb­ ing matters entered her head. Her father? He’d be wild at her. But she had her own money, and what could he do? Poor Ping! She’d give him up gracefully if he wanted her to. Her mother would help her, she was sure. She could always manage her mother when she really set out to do it. And that man! That awful Judge who’s sent her to jail. Maybe she could think up something terrible to do to get even. .She might use her money to fight him in the next election. But she wanted some­ thing more dramatic and more per­ sonal than that. She .fancied herself when she had had her revenge, say­ ing with great magnanimity: “Per­ haps my father can find some kind cf a job for you in his nesses.” For, of course, her to be something about He was a “career could tell it. It wvas career that he had sent her up, just to get into the paper headlines. On and on she went. The roads were tortuous and slippery. ■ She had to make time. For by 9 o’clock at the latest Lucy would find she had gone. There’d be a great huHaboo. Karen giggled as she thought ,c-f the .burning wires to on Wednesday afternoon suf- seriops injuries at Brgicefield a car which, police say, was driven south by Reginald Wright, 24, Toronto, crashed into the light sedan in which they were driving. The injured are—(Scott Kerr, 18, fiactured arm and collarbone and extensive lacerations; Mary Hoi- man 11, undetermined internal in­ juries; Rita Holman, 16, lacera­ tions to face and arms. The Hol­ man girls are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Holman, Winthrop, while Kerr is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ken;, McKillop Township, The trio were on Bayfield to attend held by tihe young t. n and Winthrop, dent occurred at the intersection of the Seaforth-Bayfield road with No. 4 highway at Brucefield Corner. The Kerr .car aws nearly across the highway when it was struck at the right rear, police said. The ma­ chine was extensively damaged. Also in the Wright car was Miss Myrtle Bollick, Humber Bay. Dr. A. E. McMaster, Seaforth call­ ed to the accident, took the injured to Scott Memorial Hospital, Sea­ forth, where it was found that Kerr and the younger Holman girl were the most seriously injured the lat­ ter critically. The accident was investigated by Provincial Traffic Officer W. Robin­ son and County Traffic Officer Nor­ man Lever. DROUGHT XJl'PMpi ABEA arranged A large section of land in the vicinity of and including Camp Hughes, near Brandon, Man., wi11 be set aside as a grazing and assem­ bly area for cattle from the drought- stricken area, it was announced re­ cently. Hon, J, G. Gardiner, minister or agriculture, said the necessary or* der-in-council had been adopted at last Friday’s session of Cabinet Council. He then left for the West, to put the Government’s latest drought relief efforts into operation This is in conformity with the plans announced by the minister last week when he returned from the West to lay before his colleagues the situation arising from the most disastrous drought yet to strike the ■prairies, Cattle from the dry areas will be assembled at Camp Hughes concen­ tration point where pasturage and water will be available and there classified and marketed. Eastern buyers will be able to go direct to this point to' negotiate sales without the necessity, of visiting the indiv­ idual farms. Cattle ready for kill­ ing will be sent to the slaughter houses. • Cost of this effort toward salvag­ ing the livestock in the dry areas, will be largely borne by the Domin­ ion but tlie provinces will co-oper­ ate. 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For felt misgiv- She still had the cai’ key in her hand, and Karen had to .fight to keep from snatching it. Lucy looked at Karen’s brilliant brown eyes, which now seemed deep­ ly opague. “If anything should happen your father woulr blame me. I .feel blame enough about the other night! If I’d acted different maybe things would have-turne-d out different.” Lucy was wavering. "Different?” Karen shrugged her shoulders. Yes, maybe now she’d be the Princess Rani. Thank heaven that had not happened—-or maybe it would have get me out of was thinking. Her silence, ference, .finally won Lucy, was halfway out the door in stant. "Be sure and- have supper ready,” she called as the door slam­ med. been better, the country,’* "Might Karen her apparent indlf- Karen an in- A Wild Ride drove like a wild woman village. Brents was just Karen into the locking the door up when she pull­ ed up in front of the general store. He saw her and came out with the package. 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