The Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-11-30, Page 6!X
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
SYNOPSIS V
Anne Ordway, nineteen, is shocked
•when she* realizes that their old friend
David Ellicott, is in love with' her
beautiful mother, Elinor. Anne adores
both her mother and her father, Fran
cis. One night she and Garry Brooks
find a man making coffee over a fire
in a meadow—-a charming young man
•who gives his name only as Charles.
After Anne has left him, Charles,
through a second story window in
Anne’s house, sees a beautiful woman
—not Anne—-take something from a
dressing table. Next morning Anne
misses her pearls and Garry Brooks
suggests that the stranger took them.
Charles is injured in an automobile
accident—and turns out to be Charles
Patterson, member of an old and re
spected family, in the news because
of his wife's sensational charges in
her divorce suit, Charles is taken to
Anne’s house, where Vicky, her com
panion nurses him. He tells her that
he believes he saw Elinor, take the
pearls. Accused by Vicky, Elinor ad
mits her guilt. Vicky promises to get
the pearls from the pawnbroker where
Elinor has taken them and persuades
Frances not to investigate. Elinor and
Francis tell Anne they are to be di-
•* forced. Anne goes to stay at Vicky’s
farm home. Charles, living nearby,
goes to a tea room one day, and
meets Vicky and Anne.
S|s * *
"No, no,” she said sharply,
shall never marry. Marriage makes
people unhappy. Look at your life.
Look at Daddy and Mother. Do you
think I’d dare? But there have been
great friendships, like the one's we’ve
read about. We might never see each
other, but we coulH ‘write, and it
would be wonderful.”
"More than wonderful.”
So it was agreed. They would,
write, but they would keep apart.
Charles would go on with his book,
and Anne would find, some work to
fill the emptiness of her days.
"But they will not be empty now,”
she told him as he left her.
"Nor will mine," he said in a mov
ed voice.
Margot Patterson rode often in the
park. She was at her best on horse
back, and she loved’ the ryhthm of it.
The old nursery rhyme was running
in her mind this morning in the midst,
of the whirling storm, ‘/The north
written to Anne:
‘‘Last night as I stood in front
my log fire, the scene of the wood
smoke brought back to me the night
when you came to me through the
moonlight, How little I knew when I
lighted that fire in the meadow that
it was a sacred flame, symbolizing
all that was to come after. Perhaps
that thought isn’t clear, but I am try
ing to say that there are things we
can't explain, but which are as defin
itely a part of us as the 'realities’ of
which we moderns talk so much. The
moonlight, the stars, the woodsmoke
rising, these are all as tangible to you
and me who love beauty as are bricks
and stones to those with less imag
ination.”
And Anne, writing on the same
high note, said:
“All my world is wonderful because
I know that you are in it.”
For months their letters went back,
and forth, Charles was free, but that
fact did not change the quality- of his
e con-
which Charles had always failed to
provide, the wind suddenly blew the
snow away and showed ’her husband,
and against his shoulder the head of
a girl.
She had thought Charles inconsol
able, and here he was consoling him
self with youth and beauty! The
temptation was great to confront him
now, but she thought better of it and
rode on, her mind not on Bart but on
Charles and the girl in his arms.
She did not see Charles again un
til after the decree was granted and
she was a free woman. She met him
in the office of his lawyer. She was
asking for a lump sum of money in
lieu of alimony, so that she might
have a gay and gorgeous season in.
London and in Paris. The lawyer ad
vised Charles against the change. “As
soon as this is spent, she’ll be asking
for more.” But Charles had agreed
to everything,
She was debonair, snpling, called
him “Carl,” and asked him to lunch
with her. When he declined she said, | friendship with Anne. They wen
Of
amethyst
on which
pale
feet,
was,
.They’ll drop the kilt for battle, but form decreed for the Canadian Active
not for ceremonial order, Private
James McArthur of the Toronto Scot- (LEFT) .retains kilt. In full march-
-tish, models the three types of uni--ing order, gas masks are worn thus.
FOR SERIOUS BUSINESS KILT IS LEFT AT HOME“L think 1 am, darling.”
And Vicky, torn by doubts but not
voicing them, kissed Anne and said,
"May God be good to you always,”
Charles was to come in. the after
noon to the beach to see the school,
then Vicky would take the children
away, leaving him alone with Anne.
There bad never been a more per
fect day. The wind blew through sil
ver grasses, the water stretched in a
shimmering sheet to the
of the horizon, the sands
the children danced were
gold under their twinkling
To th? children Anne
morning, -more than ever like
fairy princess in their story books.
The children danced until they were
tired, then were put to rest while
Anne and Vicky went back to set
forth on a long table fruit and sand
wiches and milk.
Thus it happened that the children,
wide-eyed, were the first to see a slen
der dark-haired man descend from a
shining roadster and walk towards
them.
"Where is Miss Ordway?” -asked
the man.
“Over there,” said one of the.child
ren, pointing. “She said she was ex
pecting a gentleman.”
Then Anne came running up.
"Garry"’ she said. "Where in the
world did you come from?”
' “I’m just back from Italy. I called
up your father and got your address,
then motored down to Vicky’s, and
they directed me here.” ✓
Anne’s mind was in a turmoil.
What meddlesome fate had brought
Garry here on this day which was to
have been Charles’ own?
She found herself saying, “We’re
having a picnic lunch and you must
help us eat it.”
"It is not of food I am thinking.
Anne, why didn’t you answer my let
ter?”
"Told you not to write. Wanted to
be away from everything.”
“And everybody — including my
self? Well, you needn’t think you can
lose me, I’ve come back more in love
with you than ever, my darling.”
"I’m not your darling.”
"You have always been. You can’t
make it different by saying so. And
now, when are you coming home?”
“Home?”
‘*To Carrol! County.”
"I’m not coming back.”
“But you can’t bury yourself here
forever.”
soar above the earth to skies that! “I’m not buried. And I mean what
reach to far horizons. j I'say-Hhat I am never going back to
Charles, swayed by deep emotion Mother and Daddy. I am done with
them.”
"Anne, how can you be so hard?”
"I’m not hard. Things are simply
over. That’s all."
“But you’re not done me?”
“I’m afraid I am, Garry.” Then, as
a* whistle blew, "Vicky is calling us
to lunch. We can talk later.”
'The children came to the table.
i
| With a quick'1 gesture he stopped ' ies to a vanishing thread. The time
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would be married and would be off
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had no money of his own.
On Christmas Day Charles had
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He was her own, Margot belonged
to his past. “His present is mine and
his f-uture,” was the way she put it to
Micky.
’"Then you ate going to marry him?
it, but I don’t dare. For I am tarred- He wrote to-her that he was com-
with the same brush as her parents.” ing on the first of May to see her.
“You mean you love her?” she ask- j
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‘When you came to me in the moonlight.«
"But there is no reason why you
shouldn’t. Divorced husbands and
wives do, don’t they?”
"Perhaps. But I want to get back.”
"To your ducks and dog?”
"Yes.”
“And to the pretty girl I saw you
with one afternoon?”
In spite of himself he showed his
wind doth blow and we shall have surprise.
snow.” How well she remembered her ( "When?” »
old English nurse teaching her that I was riding in the park and came
song as they had watchedsthe snow on a charming scene?”
from the window. . ' said stiffly, "I prefer not to
She thought of herself as a child. about it.”
A pretty child. Spoiled. Not by her But I want to talk about it. Who
nurse, but by her mother and father. ’s she, Charles?” .
And then in later years by Charles. I "Why bring her into it?”
That had been the trouble. If he had "You mean you're ashamed of
' bossed her or bullied her there would her?”
have been at least the excitement. (
Well, she had excitement enough
with Bart. His youth and energy had
kept her on her toes. That was the
charm, of him. He deftninated, and ev
en made her doubtful of her power to
hold him. She had never been doubt
ful of Charles. So she had let him go.
He still, she was sure, loved her.
She could have him back when she “You mean you love her?” she ask- j “I want you for my own, my dear-
wanted. But she did not want him. ed incredulously. . ; est. We must not let our fears rob us
She.^vanted Bart. And as she rode on "I am not here to discuss that," he of our future.”
through the snow her thoughts ran said.
ahead of her to meeting him. .that | r _ ___ _ _____
night at dinner and a dance after- what she asked, but she was not sat- ; of life such as she had never known.
Wards. ...... . . . _
Slip rounded the top of a hill and
looking 'down saw a car with the
snow falling heavily about it and aS
if to provide for her the excitement
and inspired by Anne’s belief in him,
•found his book gaining in depth and
strength. And Anne, eager to match
his endeavors with her own, planned
with Vicky to open a school for the
j countryside children who needed care
i while their mothers worked.
So the months passed. Charles
1 read of (Margot in the society col
umns of the daily papers. She was in Vicky said grace, and Anne brought
of her wedding.
As for Anne, he knew- now what he : the .table,
wanted and he meant to have it. They I He said moodily,
had drawn out their fine spun theor-.
London, But there had been no news . a little tray for herself and Garry to
~r t- — ‘ ’where he sat a short distance from
■ the .table.
■et- --------j:i.. “I’m not hungry;
I want to see you alone.”
She made him eat, however, before
I she went on with him to where a
The years stretched before them, j curve of the beach hid them from the
() | Then Garry said abruptly, "What
other man were you expecting?”
her. There is no reason why I. had come for more than theories,
should not tell you her name. She is {
Anne Ordway. Her father and mo- Years in which Anne must sit by his others-
ther were divorced some weeks ago' fire, smile at him across the table,
and it has broken her heart. If I dar- sail with him under the. stars, see'
ed ask her to marry me, I would do t dawns over .the desert.
Airplanes from above, and warships, their flock of merchantmen in con-
destroyers and minesweepers on the start! zigzag formation. Should a
surface combine to keep* open Bri-, submarine put up its periscope, it
tal^s supply routes. An 'efficient sig-’ risks danger of the target heading in
nailing system keeps guardians and the wrong direction or of a shower of
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depth charges descending. Running
on strict schedule, timed as exactly as
submarines, a convoy represents an
immense amount of planned detail.
The photo, taken on the high seas
"Well, he'd better keep away from
you! I saw Els wife in Paris. He had
told her about you. She said he was
madly infatuated, but that it wouldn't
last.” . •
When she did not answer, he turn
ed and looked at her. She was gazing
seaward with a light in her eyes such
as had never been for him. '
(Continued Next Week)
FIRST ELECTION
IN FIVE YEARS
FORTURNBERRY
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elected this year will remain in office
for the duration of the war. As for
himself, He had been thinking of quit
ting but after serious consideration,
had decided to stand for relection. He
was of the opinion that the decision
of the Provincial Govt, to allow no
election during the war was a good
thing.
James Breckenridge
He took exception to the 'charge of
no information being obtainable, as
all that was necessary could be found
in the financial statement. He said
one bridge had been painted at a cost
of $135. He was again in the field.
Roy Porter
He stated that no heavy expendi
ture had been made, doing grading
and -underbrushing. The school rate election and still was as the old coua-
had been reduced from 4 5|10 mills to j cil could do as they wanted the last
4 l[10 mills and relief from 3|10 to
2|10 mills. At the end of the year with
all taxes in, we should have a nice
surplus. He dealt on ,the saving on
printing sifice1 the Gestetner had been
purchased, he stated that for the six
years previous the printing had cost
the township an average of $203.00
per year while this year it amounted
to only $115.08.
A discussion arose regarding the
reduced school rate and it was ex
plained that the Clerk that it was due
to the closing of the Zetland school
and only having one teacher in Lower
Wingham.
William Austin
He charged that the Council had
raised their salaries, but had not in
creased the working man’s. If he was
elected he would see the salary for
Councillors was reduced. This caused
quite an argument and the chair had
to call for order. He was in the field
for Council.
Alvin D. Smith
As there had been no election for
several years, he was ofsthe opinion
that it was time for one. He had no
thing -personal against any of the
Council but he would be in the ,field
for council. ' ’
Robert A. Powell
He had been opposed to the early
month of the year. He hadn’t decide
ed whether to stand or not, but laterr
qualified.
Roland Grain
Returned to the platform to ansivSlRr) P
several questions that had been askeAX
He said Mr, MacTavish was in error'
regarding the cost of boundary roads
as only $5000 had been spent already-',
and $1000 for culverts, which wer^i
needed. This was disputed by Mr;.
MacTavish. He said the work war
going to be done in the county any
way, and it was little encouragement
to have the work done in the northu
rather than the south.
It was never intended that thes
equalizers should pay co-urt costs but
they gave their evidence free of cosL
In regards to a question regarding:
the repair of a drain, he explaine<£-
that the interest on the drain deben
tures had been reduced, this was pos
sibly the reason. This did not satisfy
Mr. Wright who claimed that the de
bentures on the drain in question ha<£
all been paid.
The Road Superintendent Jas. T»
Wylie, gave an account of the work
of his department.
James Moffatt, a former member of
the Council, offered a few remarks
and the meeting was closed with the
National Anthetn.
“How did you know there was an
other man?”
"The children told me,”
There was red in her cheeks aS she
said: “If I must tell you, tt is Charles
Patterson.”
He stared at -her, "Patterson1? Why
should he come?”
"Why not? We are very good
friends.”
"Friends?” incredulously. “Is he
making love.to you, Anne?” ,
She parried, “Don’t ask foolish
questions, Garry,
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