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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-02-29, Page 2THURSDAY, FEBRUARY £9, 1910 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE JI mu * by Eardiey Beswick miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiimmimii Cope flashed a look as he rose to follow out the director’s suggestion and Geoffery, responding to his in terpretation of that look, said: “I'll have a look by all means. I don't think it will make much difference though, I happen to have something up my sleeve for such eventualities this time.” “You mean I shall have niy sample tonight after all?” Cope said alertly. “You can rely on it being ready, absolutely,” Hendringham answered, in spite of the despair he felt at heart, and lie at once followed the foreman out of the room. Cope turned to the director as the door closed. “Smart fellow. Hend ringham, don’t you think?” fie said sweetly. ; Mr. Mench’s agreement had a grim i sound. “Over-optimistic, like most, men of his age,” he remarked by way of qualification. “You mean about that sample." “Of course. He can’t possible have a satisfactory sample ready by to night, and if he rushes the thing and something is found to be wrong it is the firm’s reputation that will suffer. When we we like it to be can make it,” “You suggest until tomorrow, then?” , “Until Friday. After all make much difference, a day or two either way.” “No, I don’t suppose it can,” agreed Johnny Cope. “And yet . . . His great head jerked up from con templation of the floor. “How are the dogs getting on?” he asked. Again he had Mr. Mench flus-, tered “The dogs?” “Yes, the Alsatians. Don’t tell me you have given up- breeding! Such handsome creatures, Alsatians, and so useful when properly trained.” “Look here, Cope ...” “Mulligan, if you please,” he was corrected gently. , ‘Well, Mulligan if you will have it. Do you mind telling me what my dogs have to do with you?” The sense of having been bested all along and not always in a way he was capable exasperated his habitual “Nothing not. To tell you the Mr. Mench, I’m afraid J‘It isn’t yourself throwing pepper in then? I’ve had a telephone plaint from my man this morning.” “You ought to know me better than that. The name of Mulligan in itself should be a guarantee against such an accusation. Let me 'tell you, sir, the Mulligans have been dog-lovers for generations. As a matter of fact I’ve been thinking of setting up a kennels .for myself, only I’m a bit uncertain how to feed them. They -tell me Alsatians have a passion for marmalade, but pepper! You know really was pepper, have such a number at their command. shouldn’t be surprised if the poor things went completely blind.” “Ah!” said Mr. Mench, recover ing an acute interest. “So it they who got away with them, it?” “Better ask “But still I they went off “Ah!” said send out a sample as perfect as to it i lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll “Well, I think we have exchanged all the information at our disposal. I’d better see how Hendringham’s getting on.” He rose, stretched liis ungainly body and, smiling leisure ly with every feature of his grotes que face he walked out. of the room. Mr. Meneli sat for a iong time, his brow furrowed with effort to think. Then he straightened up and rang the bell for Miss Silvane. Out in the toolroom Hendringham was collecting such parts as still gauged up to size or in which the defects were unimportant. Johnny Cope strolled in as the leaving hoot er was blowing for the dinner break. When the scuffle of departing feet had died away he found a cigarette and casually, as he tapped the end on his case, asked “Well?” ’•Take at least a couple of days to put this right,” answered Hend- d ria gh a m desp on den 11 y. “Well, our friends Mr. Meneli has good enough to inform us that and a half days is the period by his friends.” He the still waiting louder tones in lock up the undam- skill wait can’t of realizing had at last the little man out of over-studied politeness, at all, at least I hope plain truth, of them.” that’s their been eyes, com- I doubt if it These Asiatics of funny drugs And cruelty, I was was the dogs that.” don’t understand. If in the explosion . .” Johnny Dope. They sat silent for a few minutes eyeing one another narrowly. Then. <T’m beginning to think it would be a good thing if you were out of the way once and for all, Mr. Mul ligan,” the little director said in a thoughtful tone, not a hint mosity in his threat. “You cate one’s thinking.” “(Surely not that! And ber, you had the chance at Amster dam,” said Cope. “Such opportun ities seldom recur, I’m afraid." he sighed, cussing lem, so faces so sound of their voices. Cope broke the silence at last. of ani- compli- remem- They might have been dis- some remote ethical prob- seldom were their bent calm and detached was the he. a two scheduled for it turned towards foreman and in structed him to aged parts. “Mr. Hendringham and I will take the others with us,” he said. Between them they made a parcel which presently was stowed on the floor of Cope’s sleek, long bodied open tourer. At a touch the engine throbbed They scrambled in and slowly out of the yard into the long straight that skirted the Works, was deserted except for liiiiiiiiiiHiijiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiililillllllrc and inhaled as it gratefully. “Help yourselt Geoff.” he said, tossing the case over. “Pretty neat trick that, wasn’t it?” Imitating him, Hendringham help ed himself and lit up before reply ing: “Well, if a display of sheer recklessness that would have dis graced a roadhog is to be described in that way, I’m inclined to think your satisfaction justified,” he said. “But what on earth made you try to get through.” “In the heat of the moment I fancied I saw three pretty good reasons. One that public builders’ labourers generally remove the loading from the top of a ladder be fore they attempt to lower it — an unweighted ladder o.f that ..size is bad enough, but a weighted one’s like a rogue elephant on holiday, you know. Two, that the gentle man with the flag appeared to be our old friend Mr. Grossmitli dis guised by a clean shave, a blue handkerchief, and a suit of corduroy And, three, that dear old Pandol- fius suggested during our recent conversation that it would really be a good thing indeed if I were out of the way once says I complicate I confess I have must not judge over his latest effort. probably want to destroy any man who complicated my thinking. Af ter all a man’s entitled to protect his intellect.” Discussion on Sherry Though normally disposed to gard anything that Cope did justified by the fact of him doing it. Geoffery was turning the recent events over in his mind, asking himself what action he would have taken him. risky ter a “It and for all. He his thinking which tried to do, so we him too harshly I my self’d re- as ........... n" ; "■ ca.." ................................ ....... , Quality guaranteed ”<■ at AHA’ IfAllnUn TEA the narrow entrance of an old inn yard. “Any idea what the cook- ig’s like at this place?” liesasked, showing more concern than at any time yet in their short but not un adventurous jou’rney. “Not the faintest idea, Usual sort of thing, I suppose.” “What? And you’ve been in this town for a week?” “Been far too busy to- bother about the local chop-houses.” “Geoffery!” How often have J endeavoured to drive it into your head that to a good general the ■commissariat is the basis of the campaign never an afterthought? As a result of your neglect of this fundamental of all good strategy I am now in all probability con demned to a meal of synthetic soup and stewed mutton, with yester day's fish for an hors d’oeuve and boiled suet to follow.” He grimaced his distaste for the prospect and, muttering something about “cubes of unripe gorgonzola,” followed Hendringham into tlfe inn. He paus ed' for a moment at the low, creep er-hung doorway and then joined his companion in a low-ceilinged, oak-panelled room. Here a loud speaker was deliver ing the lunch-hour program to an entirely unresponsive audience, the usual scatterings of motorists pass ing through the town and unrelat- able loungers that one finds in each place. They sprawled in their chairs and, sipping cocktails, hid • their discourse under the saxaphon- ic plirenzies. “Let’s sit by the piano.” Cope led the way to a couple of unoccu pied chairs in a corner, where a Victorian cottage piano seemed to be huddling into the background as if it felt itself incongruous there. “Poor thing’s lpnely,” he said, ris ing the lid a little and tinkling in effectually on the treble keys. “Hasn’t been played in a genera tion or tuned, by the sound of it.” He sighed and, beckoning a waiter, order dry sherries. When the drinks arrived he sip- pedd his tentatively made a wry face and adroitly emptied the glass into a bowl of sweet peas, “Should not. drink the stuff if I were you. j Geoff,” he remarked. Hendringham sipped and declared it not so bad as all that. (To be Continued) PATRICK McGEE PIES IN LUCAN . Patrick McGee, well-known Bid dulph Township farmer for many years died .Monday at his home in Lucan, aged 82, years. Mr. McGee had .been at church Sunday but was taken, ill during the day and failed to rally. Mr. McGee was born in Biddulph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, McGee, pioneer residents He farm ed in Lucan district all his life and retired to Lucan a year ago. He had been interested in municipal affairs and was an active Libeial. He was a life long member of St. Patrick’s chut ch, Biddulph, and of the Holy Name Society. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann (Kehoe) McGee; three sons, Rev. W. P. Mc Gee, C.S.B., of Aquinis Institute, Rochester, N.Y.; Philip, of Kitchen er, and Patrick, London; four broth ers, Edward, London; John, Lucan; Thomas and Michael, of Oakwood, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Murray, Lucan. The funeral was from his home Wednesday morning to St. Patrick’s chur'ch for requiem high mass and interment. 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Besides his parents Kenneth is sur vived by two brothers, Emerson and Donald. A private funeral' service was held from the home, concession 1, lot 13, McGilivray, to .St. James’ cemetery, Clandeboye. ReV. L. C. Harrison, of Lucan, conducted the service. CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &e LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office; Carling Block, Akain Street EXETER, ONT. Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office; Carling Block EXETER, ONT, dosed Wednesday Afternoons Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D.DS DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the Post Office, Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 38J Closed Wednesday Afternoons WIN $3O CASH to life. Cope drove and swung empty road The road a solitary workman who held a red flag and stood in front of a tempor ary barrier that for a distance di vided the road along its crown. On the right, behind the fence and op posite the barrier, was a scaffolding about some new works building, an extension that was in progress. In the half of the roadway on the left there seemed to be little ob struction beyond a few cafelessly discarded picks and shovels, a heap of sand and a Wheelbarrow. The man with the flag waved them on toward the right. Johnny Cope was driving with, for him, unwonted sedateness. As a rule he would slip along using to the utmost the .flexible power at his disposal, apparently quite reckless, but, as Geoffery knew, alert to every conceivable danger that a highly developed road sense could envisage. They had driven many thousand miles together and, tho’ there had been sqeaks of the nar rowest kind imaginable, he had learnt to trust to the utmost calm quick brain and the immediate re action of those thin, nervous .fingers those elegantly long yellow shod feet, to its commands. . The big car swung over to the right in response to the watchman’s signal. Then it swung left again and accelerated. The watchman : furiously urged them back to the ' right and, puzzled, Geoffery glanc ed at the driver enquiringly. Johnny Cope was sitting hunched, his big ears spreading over his coat collar, his rough hair fanned backwards by the increasing wind of their mo tion, eyes steady on the road ahead two bony fingers casually tapping the steering wheelrim after ner when the driving was become difficult. The watchman bravely motion to step into their path. Then he sprang aside as the great car, hurtling now, dashed into the 'Con trol on the wrong side of the bar rier. Then from the corner of an eye the passenger observed behind the fence to the left two men strug gling with a long ladder that was clearly getting .the better of them, over-balancing toward the roadway. Rope-hung packs of bricks dangled from its upper end as slowly it toppled outward. Picks and shov els went clattering from beneath their tyres, but deflected them not in the slightest. Their speed and the grip of knuckly fingers on the wheel-rim were too much for that. No obstacle less than a considerable boulder would have been capable of diverting them now. The ladder hung over* the road way, its brick-weighted ends has tening its no longer controllable descent. They were directly under it, and their course narrowed by a wheelbarrow and a pile of sand, when it -caught the top of the fence and its heels kicked skywards even as the upper rail splintered under ; its weight. The wheelbarow went up in frag ments, and the crash of its destruc tion was followed by that of the ladder behind them. The near wheel ( lurched perilously through the They were through. Johnny Cone eased to a more forcible speed and swung again. Even when slowed he did not trouble to glance around. 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