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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-06-25, Page 2toe exeter times-advqcate Page 2 June 25th, 1942 yau’A prefer to come “Not tele- your chapter xxxni she 4 I re­ Tamar was bareheaded and dress- His tanned face lit withThey you subject with couldn’t to walk Dad. sec­ Dick this this Are I can’t But I Now. “It’s good to were all wor- are no words remember. things about that 'J attend meetr make it can Right away. I’ll see them at Come in, please, and bring the to tell me. She’s sending me tonight.” few days.” “Yes, flew to Boston day and a half. I soon as I found out showing you the for the Shadwell stride. “Do you. re­ week you spent here, ourselves to go colored church heard her “Phoebe, you eavesdropper. You've ® surf camber y°u the sp,Eak dhUnal a'p!e" wari ® BE KnrinsS'Pr!"nP,,y Wil6n ,iw Uf®0FE-PEAi “"ra Ca°Us*S f<w ’'°“r • Serial Story ANNE TEDLOCK BROOKS Making a Date ■Could, you meet me this after­ Christopher, at the fork in I’ll borrow a go riding with ourselves that, noon,; the bridle paths? horse. I want to you. We promised you remember.” “Tamar, afternoon, morning, you too tired?” “No,” she hesitated.top tired, Christopher, but I can’t get a horse, unless I call Ranny and have him send one over. It would take a little while. About an hour and a half.” “I’ll meet you at 11, then,” Tamar replaced the receiver with trembling hands* Her mirrored face frightened her, ‘I must not care, she told." herself. She brushed her hair and remembered that she must call Ranny before he left fox* the office. He answered the phone himself. Talks to Ranny “Tam! It’s grand to hear voice. I wanted to call and say good morning to you before I left the house, and now you’ve done it for me. Tamar, you angel, I’ve been numb for three 'days, and now I’ll start to live all ovex' again,” It was difficult to sound merry over the telephone, his voice sound- struck hex' and she added contrite­ ly, “of course, if go—” The telephone sentences. Knox said: “Oh, Selby? hearty breakfast. broke into her answered and She’s eating a Just a moment.” Tamar was so lovely, propped up on the big pillows. Her dark hair lay in shining ringlets and waves about her shoulders, the pink satin of her gown with its lacy yoke made her white shoulders more beautiful than a lovely old portrait. ‘I could not have bore it to have lost her,' her father was saying to him­ self. He stared at the expression that^swept over her face. The color left her cheeks, but her eyes did not falter. “How nice, Selby! Yes, of course I will, darling.” Tamar’s fingers were numb on the receiver, and it slid out of them with a jangle. “What is it, Tamar?” “Oh, nothing. Nothing, Only Selby has an important ret for Tamar slowed her car as neared the curve in the road where the bridle path joined it. She drop­ ped the coupe just off the path and sat there waiting. 'Funny that I have no feax* of ed so convincingly like love-making, being alone, aftex' all that I’ve been “Ranny!” she managed, “you know t through.’ For a moment she won- you’ve always said.it’d be good rid- dered if it were like being innocu- dance!” Ilated. The wire was silent, but vibrant ■ Tlxe distant sound of galloping with the intensity of his coming ’ hooves reached her ears and slxe words. “I’ve changed my mind!” leaned forward to see Christopher How could she ask him for the Sande coming toward her. He was use of Tahlahneka II to go riding! in the saddle of a beautiful roan with Christopher after that? She with a white star on his forehead, would seem unfaithful even to her-land she wondered where he had self to borrow his horse. She tried borrowed him. a bright quip or two and they end-! ed the conversation upon a pleasant ed in a blue Sweater and skirt. She note, but without the question asked. | waved to him as he pulled the roan “I’ll drive my car,” she decided. ‘ down to a walk. A tap on her door brought her. bore high brown coloi' upon his out of deep thought. “Yes?” cheeks, and his brown eyes were "•Chile, de repotahs done got per-. clear and steady, mission from de doctah to talk wif, pleasure at seeing her. yo dis mo'nin. Shall ah run 'em off?” Tamar glanced at her watch. “No, Phoebe. I’ll find out what Dad wants to tell them, and that’s all they’ll get. 9.30. me that’ coffee! I can smell tray right through the door.” Phoebe an1 Eavesdropper hea’d don’ think dis bed to- 'en up “Yassum, Honey. I callin’ Mist Ranny. Ah yo’ ought to sti’ out of day.” Then Phoebe also calling Mr. Sande. miserable lots more to do than to listen to me talk over the telephone, haven’t you? No sugar, but lots of cream. I've got to gain foux’ pounds.” Nice of Tamar not to press the point about her listening, Phoebe was thinking as she murmured: “Cou’se chile, yo’ needs mo' fo’ pounds. Ah’ll be. takin' up pleats in all yo’ waistbands.” Tamar heard her father's step outside. “Come in, Dad. I want to see how you look this morning.” Slie smiled happily as the door opened. “Why, you’re bright as I feel.” Tamar thought she had never seen him looking so weary and so harassed as he did this morning. She spoke with an effort, covering up for him. Knox would not feel safe for her as long as the abduc­ tor was free. He had slept little more last night than he had the three preceding ones. He was hap­ py over the miracle of having Ta­ mar back with him, but he felt that the man who had torn her froxn him should be punished without mercy, to talk pleasantly, good? I had mine ago. t wakened and couldn’t wait, bed and you trip Knox tried “Is your coffee over an hour early, you see, Hope you'll excuse me?” “Of course!” Tamar leaned over and kissed him. He sat on the edge of her while she finished her tray said, thoughtfully: “Would like to go with me on a little *or a few days? We could go down to the beach, and stay at the Dol­ phin Inn. You could swim and rest r nd read.” Tamar picked up a crusty piece of toast. “But I don't need to sleep and rest and read! I’ve things to do here at Shadwell.” A thought Little to Talk About This was commonplace talk, safe and not dangerous to continue. “Has there been any clue to the missing gold?” “None whatsoever. I think every one was so busy looking for that the gold was forgotten.” smiled at her and added: course, they’ve got men on case. But I doubt if ever they lo­ cate it,# or even find out who took it. The Major is bringing suit for his incarceration in the city jail.” Tamar looked at him out of steady blue eyes. “The Major is playing with, fire to get UP before a court to have questions shot at him,”- She saw that he was startl­ ed, and added: “I can’t tell you any more than that!” • She said abruptly after a silent moment: “I heai’ that you were out of town for a He nodded, and stayed a came back as about you and the hold-up of the armored truck. The Major------” he broke off. He had started to say that the Major was apoplectic when he talked with him, but reconsid­ ered. “Hello,” she called. “I get a horse, so we’ll have or ride in my car.” She Meets Christopher ■Christopher slid ’out of the sad­ dle, and holding the bridle in one hand, walked up to the car and put out the other hand. “t+’« tn see you; Tamar. We ried terribly. There to tell you.” She dismissed the an attempt at light laughter. “Let’s not think about it and ruin this wonderful morning.” “Lock your car and I’lL tie my horse and let’s walk along the path. Look at the foliage on the trees. Isn’t it beautiful with the, sun glinting on it?” Christopher threw the reins across the accommodat­ ing branch of a nearby tree, and Tamar turned the key in the coupe. , They walked dovp the path to­ gether, he stooping occasionally to pull back trespassing vines across it. Here underneath the ancient trees the sun crept through in lacy leaf design. It was so quiet that an occasional red squirrel looked out inquisitively and then scam­ pered up the tree trunk. To the side of them flowed the Chestatee, now lazily with the gold­ en sparkle of sun upon it, now flash­ ing in a myriad of colors over a small natural waterfall, or blurb- ing over brown stones imbedded in old fords. Tamar looked ahead and saw the span of the bridge that connected the two main highways. It seemed too artificially man-made here in this perspective. She and Ranny , had watched the men working on it the summer it was built, and they had been too close to danger for the good of her conscience many times. Ranny had always dared to do the impossible, and she must fol­ low lest he think her dull. She brushed the thought from her im­ patiently. Why must the remem­ brance of him clambering about on the trestles come at this moment! “How is you work going now at the Cricket Hill?” she asked to start some form of conversation* “Very well. We have gone into that vein of the mother lode, and the assay is very high. We’ll soon replace the gold bricks that were stolen, even if they’re never re- , covered,” Some Questioning Then he was here night before last, she was thinking. She walked along swinging her arms rythmically, keeping up with Christopher’s membex’ the we proxnised one of the ings?” “Oh, yes, I do membei' so many week.” “Remember my burial ground horses?” “Of course,” the expression of his eyes did not change. “I can see tlxe shaft of the famous horse rising fronx the lot, at a certain hill close to the mine. From the top of the hill, I get a very fine view of all of Shadwell.” Tamar did not dare go back to discuss the shaft of Talxlalineka I. It would be dangerous to say more about it, unless she intended to tell him where the ransom money had been placed. , That information had been "kept ' from the reporters. They had only published that the payment had been made, A Change Comes 1 Tamar wanted to forget about everything that pertained to her recent experience. She wanted to ask him about Selby and discuss things of a more personal nature, yet, she coul’d not bring them to the sufrace. Selby’s voice had Vi­ brated with happiness over the wires this morning. Tamar knew there was only one secret that Selby would have to tell her. And it con­ cerned the man by her side. Suddenly Tamar was aghast with the thought that had just occurred to her. The pain that had engulfed her heart the evening that Selby and hex* brother had eaten dinner with them, had disappeared. She rexnembered how like a leaden thing her body was as she went back to • her room hours aftex' they had gone. That had been the first she thought that more than a xhild tation existed between Selby Christopher. But that night she had been had flir- and sure that Selby was thinking of mar­ riage, Anyone could have seen that she was in love with Christo­ pher. And Tamar knew that she had been able to hide her own feel­ ings toward him. 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Settee rour i>« To* to Motets J. F. Rolfe Mart a gar. y lJnportant. know Dad will be jittery every time I leave the house for a while.” She’s Happy Again Tamar drove back to she was thinking only pleasant thoughts about the the the and pfoti Rdl Them Better With^DEATH OF ROBERT DOWN Had Another Bad Hight? Couldn’t You Get Any Rest? To,those Who toss, night after night, on sleepless beds. To those who sleep in a kind of a way, but Whose rest is broken by bad dreams and nightmatb. To ihoSo who Wake Up in the morning as tired as When thay Wit to bed. We offer in Milbank’s Health and Nerve Pills A ionic remedy to help soothe and strengthen the nerves. When this is dons there should be no more restless nights due to bad dreams and nightmares. Price 50ca box, 65 pills, nt aUdrug cquntam. . Look for our registered trade mark h "Eted Heart" on the package* The T. Milburn Co.. I&uiteA Toronto, Ont. ♦i Not in But this like a sweet air flooding refreshed and happy. She was not in love with Christopher Sande! Christopher looked at her in as­ tonishment. The change that had come over her had miraculously washed a haunted look from her eyes, which now shone in friendly gaze upon him. He felt the un­ easiness which he had known over this meeting, leave him as sud­ denly. “Look, ly, “I know, friend. She lips, going calling portant part of the evening’s pro­ gram Is a secret that Is going to be confided to me.” They stood still, on the path by the river and he grinned down happily at her. “May I ask just one question?” “Of course. ’ You want to know where I'm going. DICK Sheridan is coming for me for owns the secret.” “That’s perfect.” her hand and she bear to offer congratulations, “Selby is the dearest girl in the world,” she said softly. “And more congratulations continued the next time I see you. I think now that I’d bettor go back to Shadwell. I Tamar,” he said' boyish- want you to be the first to I rate you as a very close I—’.’ laid her fingers across her “Don’t spoil it, Chris, g tonight and the I’m im- dinner. Selby He caught up could not for- As house most approaching marriage of Selby Christopher. It is the only time that Selby has ever been in love, she told herself.. It will be fun to, go: to Boston and see Selby in her new- liome. -Christopher was splendid. He would be a wonderful husband —for Selby. But what of the moonlight and the walk along the river bank when she had wished it would last for­ ever? She brushed it determin­ edly aside—just the moonlight or the river, or just in love with love, Her eager l.„_ into the drive see the guineas so defiantly. A wonderful velous day. at Shadwell, pretend sudden interest in the rak­ ing of the brown leaves on the nor­ thern terrace. Funny to see how small the piles he had already gath­ ered. Good to see Madcap’s little colt by the bars waiting for some one to come to .pet him, now that Mad­ cap herself was no longer there. Over .the roof of the house a spiral of whitish wood smoke plumed in­ to the air. one had logs going in in the living room, vibrant and glowing, the crisp air. • Then happily and ran to jump over the little low Wall that she and Ranny had always used for a hurdle to show Off their athletic prowess. The Law Comes Tamar paused on the wide steps of the veranda, 'fuming into the drive was the unmistakable motor­ cycle that had stayed so close the past few hours. She liad thought It seemed good to have a clear drive once more without reporters or patrol cars cluttering it, as she drove in, Now She gave an impa­ tient shrug of her shoulders, wished It Were all over, “Dad!” she called softly tip stairs, small OGDEN’S cut CIGARETTE TOBACCO , hands turned the car and She laughed to clicking their alarm morning* A mar- Good to be alive and Good to see Aristotle That meant that sorne- the fireplace Tamar stood drinking ih she laughed Perhaps he was in library off his room. (To he continued) She the the We have piles of them on hand. They are No. 1-XXXXX Best Grade. * a THE PRICE IS RIGHT. . We expect a car load of High­ land CEDAR POSTS this week. A. J. CLATWORTHY Phone 12 Granton We Deliver Get into the profitable habit of looking through the Classifieds weekly. [ZZL TORONTO J> A KObSRN * * . Monthly Rntea ItarwA Avb, at Collbos St. RATES SJNGLS . $1.50 to -$XOO DoUBtB * $2^0 to 35.C0 l&Mfclal Wwbkly VI ■^WSBT » * » warn conduct® < w. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED nom * * Close to, Parliament Biiildingn, Unive'niitjr 6f TStoiito, Maple Leaf Gardens, Faahibhitblc Shopping District, Wholesale Hooves, Theatres, Cliurcheh of Every Denomination. A. M* Powstt, President Reference was made in the Times- Advocate of a recent issue to the death of Mr. Robert Down, of Flax- combe, Sask. The following clip­ ping from Flaxcom'be will be read with interest: By the death of Mr. Robert Down which occurred in the Kindersley hospital on Monday, May -25, Flax- combe has lost another of its pio­ neer . residents. Coming to this dis­ trict from Exeter, Ont., in 1909, Mr. Down located on a farm 6 miles north of town. In 1918 the family moved to town, and in 1919 the lo­ cal hardware store began to oper­ ate in the name of “Down & Son’L Always! interested in what tended towards the best interest of the community, he served as member of the first council of the R.M, of Elma, and later at different times on the village council, and as town overseer. A consistent member of the United church, he was a member of the local church board up to the time of his decease. Surviving are his Widow; three daughters, Mrs. Landen HeisO, Kin­ dersley; Mrs. J. B. Black, of Saska­ toon; Mrs. A. Benkers, Seattle; a son, Cecil, at Flaxcom.be, and ten grandchildren, also three brothers and four sisters, all of Ontario: Frank, Hensall; Charles, Sparta; Edgar, Toronto; Mrs. Edgar Fanson, Exeter; Mrs. Joseph Hooper, Port Credit; Mrs, Charles Hooper, Lon­ don and Mrs. Mandatte Wass, St. Marys. The funeral service was held in the community hall, and was con­ ducted by Rev. church choir “Good-night”, al tributes and of sympathizing friends and neigh­ bors testified to the respect and es­ teem in which the deceased Was held, made many friends. ers were: F. White. P, Burns interment cemetery, brated their golden wedding October 28, 1941, their family bbing present, A. E, Morrison. The sang the anthem, Many beautiful flor- the large attendance Kindly and unassuming, he The pallbear- Messrs. L* W. Elliott, L* W, S. Myers, T. J. Glonn, and A, H. Stollsteimer, was i^ado in the local Mr. and Mrs. Down ceio- on ail w. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. 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