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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-02-27, Page 6SYNOPSIS; . , , A luxurious five- month cruise around the world aboard the "Marenia” brings together a group of passengers for adventures, romantic, entertaining . * and tragic , , Dike in “Grand Hotel” these pas sengers offer a study in human ac tions and reactions, which uncon sciously bare their souls. , . . These characters are aboard the ship; Mac duff, dour Scotchman, single, of mid dle age; Miss Mudge, school teacher, spending the savings of 20 years; Angela, faithful wife of Lovat, gigolo; Dick Charlton, first officer; Claire, a person of experience; Joan, a dissi pated flapper; Jenny, run-away wife, and. Peter; Captain Baring, master of the ship ... and his soul. . . NOW, GO ON WITH THE STORY. They dined together, Angela in the highest spirits. Her wit flashed at rhe tip of her tongue; her laughter rang like the thin chiming of bells. “You’re very bright, tonight,” Mac duff told her. I’ve had news from home that’s it!*’ "It must His manner was have been cheer- “Yes. today.” “Oh, dashed. ful.’’ She laughed behind her champagne glass. “It was something I didn't ex pect,” she said. They strolled out of the dining room and took two rickshaws to Jade Street. At last they went into the tiniest and blackest of all the shops, and a wrinkled old Chinese came for ward to ask in a squeaky voice what they wanted. She explained that she wanted a jade bracelet, very rare, very choice. The man studied her with attention; then he closed his shutters and bolted his door. “I show you something very rare, missie,” he said, .moving majestically through the small square of the shop. He pried at the drawer of a lacquer chest, which sprang open and reveal ed an inner compartment, Angela fancied she caught a gleam in the whites of his eyes. His fingers mov ed. mysteriously at the back of the chest, pressing on .secret springs till he reached a long black case. From its velvet folds, which seemed to hold • .the dust and dead odor of centuries, he* drew out a'bracelet and suspend ed it with a clash before her eyes. “Ah!” she exclaimed in admiration. “That’s it.” Macduff was impressed. He took the bracelet in his hand and passed it through , his fingers, bluntly, with out the caressing fondness of the Chinese. Five carved Buddhas of dark jade were strung together on an in tricate silver chain. An eloquent bracelet, a bracelet one would re FORD Motels Smm&ftaiti Choose RATES I IVtfLI UUL I WE UIILU ROCHESTER-BUFFALO ~ ERIE IiJmJ’/hPIPWOF ► HOTELS COMVEWr LOCATED ► EASY BflUTIS HTMKMICMfrH MACHADO MAY RETURN TO CUBA Gerardo Machado, world wanderer since he was deposed in 1033 as dic tator of Cuba, appeared ih Bermuda recently and announced intention of going to Nassau. His return tv the member. She could not have dreamed ; tie down when I get home,” she of a better choice. The merchant named his price. It was absurdly high and twice the value of the trinket. She did not care. “1 want it,” she said to Macduff, “and I won’t haggle at all.” “Are you glad to be homeward bound?” Macduff enquired. She did not answer. “Angela, I asked you a question?’ “I know, Macduff, Forgive me, but I’m wondering whether I’m glad, or not,” “What happened, Angela? I that something hit you hard. know admiration. t "How clever of you!” "I thought you’d be glad to get back to your husband and home.” "I’m not going back to my hus band.” She spoke as calmly as if she were flicking a speck of dust from her clothes. Macduff looked at her suddenly and dropped his pipe from his mouth. "You’re not going back to your hus band?” he repeated, stupidly. . "No. He doesn’t want me back. He wants a divorce.” "And you are going to give it to him?” His voice rose from its deep rumble to a peak of surprise. “Why not? You see, he’s fallen in love with a girl of seventeen, and youth must be served.” “Well, I’m damned!!” Gently he touched the back of her idle hand. “I’m double damned! The swine!” Hush, Macduff.” Her fingers cov ered his lips. "The bracelet, then? I’m sure it had something to do with your news.” “Yes,” said Angela, simply. “Lovat wanted the bracelet for the girl he loves.” "Angela, you’re a fool!” said Mac duff, suddenly. “Yes, I’m afraid I am, a miserable fool. But let’s move on.” It was one of the red-letter days in Miss Mudge’s life. When they were back on the Marenia, she looked up Mr. Charlton, feeling that her pleas ure was something she must share with him. “I wonder if I shall be able to set western world made many wonder if Cuba might be his ultimate destina tion. Here he is shown (with glasses) in France, one of his many havens for the last three years, the weariness of his exile is suggested in his face. WHS bet- but her his. J saying. "I’ve always thought it I ter to feel planted in one spot." "I shouldn’t suspect, that from knowing you, Miss Mudge,” His yoice was teasing, but it pass ed over her like a caressing wind. "Why not?” "I can’t believe you’d bang the door shut on adventure. If you were that sort, you wouldn’t have come on this trip around the world." •’ "I think you’re discovering things about me that I didn’t know myself. But, you see, there hasn’t been much chance for me to do anything stay put." She leaned against his sleeve, quaint, small face thrust up into Dick feared that she wanted to be kissed, that she wanted very badly to be kissed by him, yet did not know it. He held her hand and felt it burning in his cool clasp. Miss Mudge caught fire under his touch until all of a sudden he was holding her, shaking in his arms. O God! he thought. Though he hated tears, he was moved by the desperate note of hysteria in her voice. She shud dered and clung to him. He was shocked by the fervor of her embrace.' "I’m so ashamed!” she murmured into his ear. “Ah, don’t say that. It’s stupid for a woman to be ashamed of her feel ings. They’re really the most charm ing thing about her." "But I wouldn’t do this in Ohon- to," Miss Mudge went on. “I would n’t be so abandoned." Dick laughed. “You must forget about Ohonto. You’re very far from” there now, and you must know by this time that there’s a broader, freer world than that.” Miss Mudge listened, entranced. Perhaps, it was true. His words sank sweetly into her consciousness. Sud denly she buried her face in his col lar. Mr. Charlton!" she mumbled. “My dear!” said Dick, catching her in a firm and sustaining grip and laughing at himself for a fool. He turned her face up, dripping with tears. He saw her drenched eyes and the eager, tremulous curve of her lips. Bending over, he kissed her so slow ly and thoroughly that she fainted against his chest. With a quick surge of concern he put her back in her chair and bent over her, wondering what he could do to revive her, but he saw that her hysteria had wiped out in a deadly wave of tia. After a while she got up and tied along deck without a word—a ridicuolus figure, with ridiculous skirts, flying towards the companion way. She had called him Mr. Charl ton, even when he had kissed her! Dick wiped the sweat from his brow. Never again! He regretted everything from the very beginning. -This had been different from all his other ex periences; it left him with a self-dis gust. He was strangely thinking of Miss Mudge’s lonely pil low. The Marenia was steaming across the Pacific with her homeward-bound pennant flying from the mast. Cap tain Baring was having a cocktail party in his quarters. Miss Mudge was talking to Dick Charlton. Her sparrow face was aglow, and she was drawing on a cig arette in the ridiculous, inadequate way she had. The chief officer seem ed. to be rather embarrassed for once in his life. The Foster girl, who had been drinking cocktail after cocktail with her attention fastened on him, was reeling in their direction now. Her expression was glassy and deter mined. Angela saw her step between them and catch Miss Mudge by the shoulder. Heavens! Was she going to make a scene? She was drunk en ough for* anything. Suddenly Joan’s voice rose, strident and hysterical, ov er the babel of tongues, arresting the attention of everyone in the room. Miss Mudge was blinking at her, not knowing what it was all about, Joan, a blazing fury of red locks and disli- evclment, was bending over her and shouting things that made Angela’s heart stand still, "You think Dick loves you, you poor little simp!" she cried. “Well, you’re mistaken. He loves me. Do you understand? He loves me, He’s laughing at you. Yes, I saw him kiss you on the deck at Yokohama, after you had thrown yourself into his. arms. I saw you faint, you silly lit- tie crow. You didn’t see me in the beach chair, did you? Why did you ever leave Ohonto, or wherever it is you come from? Why did you ever think you could come afbtmd the world and behave like anyone else? Don’t you know you’re a sketch? been iner- scut- touched WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Take a look at yourself!” "Joan threw back her head and lau ghed. Dick tried to intervene but she pushed him off and took a firmer hbld of Miss Mudge, on whose face a slow realization was dawning. “You think because Dick dances with you that’s he’s in love with you and not with me, Well, he's laugh ing at you up his sleeve. Everybody knows he’s making fun of you, but you’re too simple to know it. He knows your forty-three and never had another map in your life.” ('Stop her, stop her, some one’) Angela was mur muring through pale bps, but every one seemed to be rooted- to the spot.) “He knows you say your prayers at night and help to support the mis sions. He knows you’re a Dry who’s cheating, a silly little school-teacher trying to be a sport, smoking cigar ettes, painting your face like a har lot, swigging at a drink—yes, and no doubt sleeping with him, too,” “Stop it Joan! You’re mad.” Dick was towering over her in ash en fury. He caught her by the arms. She pulled herself free and slapped his face. “Don’t speak to me! I haven’t fin ished with her yet. She wears cotton nightgowns with necks like this. (Joan gestured from shoulder to chin. She sleep with curlers in her hair. I’ve seen her, on her way to the bath. Won’t wear her glasses, for fear they might spoil her appearance. Bumps into chairs. Falls over tables. Chat ters, chatters, chatters, to everyone who will listen to her. All about Ohonto and the wonderful children she teaches. ’Swonderful! Thinks the world is full of glamour. . , Oh, I’ve heard her by the hour. Loses her money at Monte Carlo. Thinks Dick’s Sir Galahad. Ha! Why is Dick good to her? Dick’s good to her because everyone on the boat knows shes’ us ed itp her savings and can’t go ashore. •Dick’s sorry for her. Dick’s mad with me . . . Little school-teachers' should stay at home and keep their pennies in their cotton stockings . . . Shouldn’t be a nuisance to grown ups . . . Shouldn’t think a Spanish shawl will make them fit to kiss . . . Poor little Miss Mudge.” . . . “You think he’s in love with you and not with me!” Everyone tried not to look at Miss Mudge. At first her cheeks* had burned. Now they were ghastly pale, except for the dots of rouge? high up on her cheeks, that made her look like a wax model. Once she had rais ed her hand to protest. Then it had fallen limply. What was the use? Captain Baring stood as if die were carved in rock. He regarded a drunk en woman as the final debasement of human nature. Hell of a mess for Charlton to get into! His favorite of ficer, and. he wasn’t a fool with wo men, either. He’d have to haul him ; over the coals, although it probably’ Wasn’t his fault at all. Dick had been cold to more attractive''women than Miss Mudge. The captain knew al) | about him. But a scene like this— before passengers! It wouldn’t do. The chief officer had turned his back and was hastily swallowing a drink. Angela and Macduff stood in appalled silence. No one knew what tack to take, but Miss Mudge herself took hold of the situation, Ignoring them all, she put her atm around Joan’s drooping shoulders and said in a clear, high voice: “Come on, you ’ foolish child, Come down with me." (Continued Next Week) GEMS FROM LIFE’S_SCRAP-BOOK DECISION “Here I stand; I can do no other wise. God help me, Amon,”—Martin Luther. * * “Be sure that God directs your Way; then, hasten to follow under ev ery circumstance.”-—Mary Balder Ed dy. * * * "He only Is a well-made man who has a good d<eterininatioiir”—Eiikiefsori. A scene at Schwerin, Germany, as Adolph Hitler (RIGHT), chancellor of Germany, delivered what many ob servers called, the bitterest anti-Jew- ish denunciation of his career. Before Der Fuehrer reposes the coffin con “I reverence the individual who un derstands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conductive to his object and can seize and use them.” —Goethe. * * * “Whoever lets himstlf be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped in to a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin.”—Maclaren.* * * “Men must decide on what they will not. do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.”—Mencius. She: “If wishes came true, what would be; your first?” _ He:'“L wculd.-wish—ah, if I only dared to tell you!” * She: “Go on, go on. What do you suppose I brought up wishing for?” . 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