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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-02-16, Page 6WISDOM and year unfolds wisdom, i holiness.”—Mary Baker * human -Sir J. “Body .cannot teach wisdom; God only;”—Emerson. * “Man governed by immortal Mind, is always' beautiful and' grand. Each succeeding beauty Eddy. * * sjt wisdom, to divine, is Denham. * •* * “He is a wise man who docs not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”—Epictitus. ' * * *- SYNOPSIS her with hard RE-ENGAGED PREMIER OF NEW SOUTH WALES GREETS ONTARIO’S PREMIER wooden steps to the door needed paint. There was she knocked timidly, and louder as she heard no When the wealthy foster parents of Marjorie Wethcrill both die she finds .a letter telling that she has a twin sister, that she was adopted when her own parents couldn’t afford to sup­ port both of them and needed money to save her sister’s life and that her real name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the world, but with a fortune of her own, she considers looking up her own family whom she has never seen. A neighbor, Evan Bower, tries t0 ar­ gue her out of it and tells her he loves her and asks her to marry him. She promises to think it over but at the time is more concerned with find­ ing her family. $ * * She looked up at him quietly, and smiled a cold little wistful smile. Then she added: “I’m sorry to seem so—uncertain— and so — unappreciative — of your — love. But I just can’t seem to think tonight.” He was a wise young man and he saw that he couldn’t get any further tonight. He studied her for a moment and than set his lips in a firm line of de­ termination. “Very well," he said quite cheerful­ ly. “I am just your friend for now, but a very special friend, you know. One whom you can call upon for any­ thing. Will you feel that?” She smiled with relief. “Yes," she said. “Thank you! Good night!" and she put but her hand and gave his a brief impersonal clasp. Marjorie found. she was too excit­ ed to sleep when she laid her head on her pillow. But strangely enough it was not on the eager protests of love that her mind dwelt most during that night’s vigil, but more on his insis­ tence that she should not search out her people. And the more she thought of it, the less she thought of Evan. She awoke in the morning with the definite purpose in her heart to get the matter over with at once. She would start right away before any­ thing else could possibly delay her. If any more people came in and tried io turn her from her purpose ghq would become bewildered againt ''S She called iip the station and made her reservations on a train that left the city a little after six that night. She took her check book and plenty of money, carefully stowed as she had been taught to do -jvhen traveling. She left no address with anybody. She did not want anyone coming af­ ter her to try and hinder her in what­ ever she should decide to do. And so at last she was on her way, quite worn out with the tumult of her decision and her preparations. The next morning she arrived in the strange city and went to a hotel. After attempting a sketchy breakfast I she took a taxi and drove to the ad­ dress she had been given in the let­ ter. It seemed a very long drive, out through a scrubby part of the city, and then into a sordid street of lit­ tle cheap houses, all alike, brick | houses with wooden porches in an t endless row, block after block, withj untidy vacant lots across the street,; ending in unpleasant ash heaps. It was before the last house in the row that the taxi stopped. The driver handed her her cheek, opened the door, and she got out her purse. “I think perhaps you had better wait for me a minute or two until I make sure this is the she said hesitantly, as house with displeasure. So, on feet that were steady, she got out and went slowly up the two that sadly no bell so then' again sound of life from within. She was just about to turn away, almost hop­ ing they were gone, and she would have no clue to search further, when she heard hurried steps on a bare floor, and the door was opened sharply, almost impatiently. Then she found herself face to face with a re­ plica of herself! “Does Mrs. George Gay live here?” She said the words because she had prepared them on her lips to say, but she was so startled at the apparition of herself in the flesh stand:ng be­ fore her that she did not realize she had asked the question. She just stood ‘ WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, February 16, 193& ROYAL DIGNITY IS FORGOTTEN WHEN RED RIDING HOOD APPEARS ‘But they probably won t for long," added the other girl grimly. “Oh, are you going to move? Then I’m glad I came before you did, for I might have had trouble finding you. said the other girl unsmil- probably would.” Then she toward a single wooden the middle before yestcr- How did thati she answered right place," she eyed the £ « it Premier Stevens ujf New South Australian economic system, Wales was on hand to meet the ship group on ship is (LEFT to RIGHT), in which Premier Hepburn and his Premier Stevens, Premier Hepburn, party sailed to Australia to study the J R, G, Casey, Australian federal treas- of the room. We still have I believe Ted the pawnshop isn’t any heat cold?” There “Yes," ing, “you motioned chair in Won’t you sit down? one chair left, though is going to take it tp this afternoon. There here. Will you take was something contemptuous in the tone of the hostile sister,. Marjorie gave her a quick troubled glance. “Are you really my sister?" “I supijose I must be," said the oth­ er girl listlessly as if it didn’t in the least matter, “there’s your picture up ■there on the mantel. Maybe you’ll recognize that. If you had waited till afternoon that would probably have been gone too." “You know, I didn’t even know I had a sister until day day!" The other looked, at unbelieving eyes. “That’s odd, isn’t it? come about?" “No one told me," Two little princesses are two little self and bit a finger when Red Riding the royal box and watched the pro- Covent Garden. girls when their mother takes them {Hood got into difficulties with the Egress of the play. Queen Elizabeth to the pantomine. Even England’s [ wolf. Princess Elizabeth displayed a took her two daughters tp see thewon. i/rincess -tuizaoeth displayed a took her two daughters tp see the Margaret Rose (LEFT) forgot her- j more ladylike interest as she sat in production at the Royal Opera house, Suddenly she burst into tears. there and stared and stared at this other girl who was so like and yet so unlike herself. The other girl had the same cloud of golden hair, only it was flying in every direction, not smoothly waved in the way it ought to lie. the same brown eyes, only they -were full of bitterness, and trouble, and a kind of fright in the depths cf them; the same delicate lips, only they were set in hard lines as if the grim realities of life had been too close to her. “Well,” she said with a final little shiver, opening the door a trifle wid­ er, “I suppose you must be my twin sister! Will you come in?" Her voice was most -ungracious, but she stood aside in the tiny hall to let the other girl pass in. “Oh! Are you—? That >s — I didn’t know—!’’ said Marjorie in con­ fusion. Then she turned suddenly to the taxi and nodded brightly. . “It’s all right," she said. “They still live here!” sadly. “Oh, yes? Then how did you find out?” “I found a letter from Moth—that is, from my adopted mother after she died. She left a letter to tell me of my people." “You mean Mr. and Mrs. Wether- ill are both dead?” The tone was in­ credulous.’ “Yes. I am alone in the world now —except for you—my own family.” The other* girl’s face grew very hard and bitter now. "Oh!” she said shortly. “I wond­ ered why you came after all these years when you haven’t paid the least attention to us. You with your grand home and your aristocratic • parents, and your fine education! What could you possibly want with us? But I see it now. They have died and left you penniless, I suppose, after all their grand pretensions, and you have come back on us to live. Well, we’ll 'take you in of course. Mother wouldn’t have it otherwise, but I’ll say it’s something like the end of a perfect day to have you turnAup just now." “Oh, I’m sorry,” said Marjorie dis­ tressed at once. “I ought to have tele­ phoned to’ see if it was convenient, but I was so eager to find you. And you don’t at all realize anything about it. I’ve not come home to . be a burden on you. I thought maybe I could spend Christmas with you. I know how you must feel. You are moving, and frightfully busy, but you'll let me help, won’t you?" “Moving!” sneered her sister. “Yes, we’d be moving right away today if we had any place to move to! And any money, to move with. And any­ thing to move! Christmas! I didn’t know there was such a thing any more!” And suddenly she dropped down in the" vacant chair, jerking her hands out from the ragged pockets of her old coat, put them up to her-face, and burst into 'tears, sobbing until her slender body shook with the force of the sobs. Yet it was all done very quickly as if there was some reason why she must not make a noise. Marjorie went close and put her arms about her, her face down against the other’s wet cheek. “Oh, my dear!" she said brokenly. “My dear!” And then her own tears were falling, and she held the weep­ ing girl close. “But you are cold! So cold your are trembling! Can’t we go into another room where it is warm and let me tell you how you have misunderstood me? Come!” Then the girl lifted her face and spoke fiercely again. “Come?” she said- “Where shall we come? Don’t you know there has not been a teaspoonful of coal in this house for two days, and that we've burned up all the chairs that aien’t sold to try and keep from freezing— except this one that has to be sold to get some medicine for Mother? D.on’t you know Father hasn’t had any work for nine months, and Mother is sick upstairs in bed with all the blankets we own piled around her and a hot- water bag at her feet? She’s getting pneumonia, I’m afraul, and I had to ■fuse my job to stay home and take care of her. Don’t you know Dad is sick himself, but ho bad to gp out and beg the landlord to let us Ma/ a few days more till Mother is better—? And I guess Ted has -lost his news­ paper route, and I’ve had to take the children to the neighborhood mtrserv, to keep them warm and fed? If you stay here with us you’ll have to pawn that fur coat to get enough tu eat!’’ Suddenly the sister’s head went down again and tr ore silent sobs shook her. It was terrible to look up­ on, Marjorie felt it was the most aw­ ful sight she had ever seen. , < Suddenly she stood back ami unbut­ toned be'r coat, sJ’d out of if and wrapped it warmlv around her lister. “'There! There! You precious sis-i *cr!’ she said softly,- laying her lips on the other girl’s. . But het sister struggled up fierce­ ly, her pride blazing in her eyes, her arms flinging off the coat. “No*" she said, "no I won’t wear your coat ev­ en for a minute." But Marjorie caught it together about her again and held it there. “Look here!" she wd with auth­ ority. “Stop acting this way! I'm your sister and I’Ve come to help youh You can’t fling me off th’.s way! And we haven’t time to fight! We’ve got tu get busy*. What’s the first thing to do? Make a fire? Where can I find a man to send for coal?’ <. "You Can’t?’' said hef sister sullen­ ly, “they won’t trust us till the bill Is paid, and we’ve nothing to pay it with? Her eyes were smoldering like slow fires, and her face was filled with shame as she confessed this, but Mar­ jorie’s eyes lit with joy. ‘ Oh, but I have!" she cried eager­ ly, and put her hand intd her purse, pulling out a nice fat roll of bills and slipping them into her sister's hand. “There,she said, “go quick and pay the bill and get the coal!" The other girl looked down at her hand, .saw the large denomination of the bills she was holding, ahd looked up in wonder. Then he face chang­ ed and an alert look came, pride stole slowly up, and the faint color that' had come into her cheeks faded, leaving her ghastly white again, "We couldn’t take it!” she said fiercely. "We couldn’t even pay it back. There is no use!" and she held it out to Marjorie. "Nonsense!” said . Marjorie. “You are my family, aren’t you? It’s my mother who is cold, isn’t it?” “After all these years? You stay; ing away and never sending -us any word? No! You’re1 adopted and be­ long to that other woman,- and it’s her money, not ours. We can’t take it!” “Look here!” said , Marjorie, her own eyes flashing now till they re­ sembled her sister’s event more than at first, “I didn’t ask to be adopted, did I? I didn’t have much chpice in the matter, did I? I was adopted be­ fore I knew what was going on, and I didn’t know anything about you. You have no right to blame me that way! /Then suddenly the ther girl jump­ ed up and flung Marjorie coat back at her. “All j-ight!” she said, “Put on your own coat. Maybe it's all true. I. don't know. I’ve hated you and the Wetli- erills so long that I don’t know whe­ ther I can ever get over it. or but I’ve got to try and save my ther’s life, even if it is with that er woman’s money!”’ (Continued Next Week) GEMS FROM LIFE’S SCRAP-BOOK ■ ' > “Pleasure can be supported by il­ lusion, but .happiness rests upon truth."—Chamfort. / The re-engagement of Kenneth. Harington, 27, and Cecilia Bowes- Lyon, daughter of Lord Glainis, the- Queen’s brother, was announced in London. They had been engaged for three years when Harington broke- the engagement in 1937, announcing he didn’t believe in “love in a cot­ tage.” However, he quit his job as junior assistant .in the diplomatic ser­ vice and^ went to work for a metal' corporation. Apparently he has done- all right in business. The King and? 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