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The Signal, 1924-4-24, Page 6• ll T1rur«lay. April 21, 1924. s THE SIGNAL, GODERICH. ONT. Purse S\ale-a'm eating sale of Hand - left over from the Easter shipment. For one week only. these are ted at greatly redo prices SEE SHOW WINDOW Porter's Book Store NEW BATTERIES [Different Makw, Capacitive and Prieto, j'tst arrive,[ at the Auto Electric and Battery Service, Cor. Colborne St. and Square. H. JANE a TIT SULPHUR ON AN ECZEMA SKIN Costa Little and Overcomee Trouble Almost Over Night NNN NOI30llY KNLW 4V I1C)I,'D oictilY HALL €'0 '+"1`" v' CHAPTER I. To the beginning of thin merely a number; but even creditable, because his nu low enough to signify that sponded pretty promptly to ing call. After that, and the cataclysmic suddenness whtcts mar ed all changes of military statu on t e western front, he because. one frosty morning, a Case. and gottrnself roughly classified (end tender I han- dled) as a Stretcher Case, • rand Blesse, nod, In consequence, • proper I temporary Innate of a !W hospital 'on the Belgian plains. `i There. he stns unofficially min as Joyeauz, or Joyous One; not because he displayed a very buoyant (Reposi- tion -far from It! -hut becauselhe be- longed to the Foreign legion; land itt two be tvacue, In hot- he was hat was r was ad re - the course of another day or was routine -ticketed as an and prodded with a lukewa water bottle and a couple of evil - smelling cigarettes to console blot on I the road to the base hospital at Neu - Illy. At Neullly he became, for the first time since his enlistment. an Individ- ual, and at the very outset he was dIs- tingulshed by certain qualities which ; had passed unnoticed in the frying pan and fire of the trenches. For one thing. he was obviously Immune to kindness; and for another. he was ap- parently Immune to hope. Ile was a man of inveterate silence; not the grim silence of fortitude In suffering (which Is altogether too common a vir- tue In base hospitals to earn any es- itectal merit), but rather the dogged reticence of black mood$ and chro•ic bitterness. To be sures speech was physically difficult to him, but other men with similar misfdrtunes spoke blessings; with their eyiea, and gave hock gratitude In voiceless murmurs. Not so the Joyous One. From the day of hie arrival he demanded nothing, desired nothing, but to brood sullenly aloof; and so, when Ire became an In- dividual. he also hecam¢ a mystery to the nursing staff. It wail rumored that he was an Implacable woman hater, and there seemed to be something he it. Regardless of the care of the Amer- ican merIcan nurses (*11 hnveringly attentive to one of their own nition who had fought for France), his'!pint remainell abysmal and clouded In gloom. Only twice, In the Initial month of bis con- finement. did he betray the weakness of an ordinary emotion; on each occ• afon a gntd-laced general had come to salute, In the name of the republic. one of the individual's neighbors. and to deliver a bit of bronze which dangled from • ribbon striped red and green. it was said (and doubted by those who hadn't seen It) that at these cerem0! niers the Indlvldual had grows fever- ish, and let tears come to his eyes, but subsequently be had relapsed Into still greater depths of stoicism thea before; his own hell -Jacket was Inno- cent of cross or medal, and his depres- sion was apparent, and acute. The nurses, arguing that perhaps his pride was wounded as seriously as his Aeah, offered quick condolence and got them- selves rebuffed with shrugs of the in- dividual's shoulders. and Isarticulate sounds which had all the esrssarks of Ith Any (retaking out of the skin. even fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly i overcome by applying Mentho-Sulphur, declares a noted skin specialist Be • - cause of its germ destroying properties, ' dos sulphur preparation instantly brings ease from skin irritation. soothes and heals the ecreraa right up and leaves the skin clear and smooth. It seldom fails to relieve the torment without delay. S•ifferers from skin trouble should obt .in a small jar of itowles Mentho-Sulphur from any good druggist and use it like cold ereart� WO! 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' Plasm 411 cti",oweJW. vN.,x+ac •upp,eaeeu protaunr, ne won t soften when Pierre •Dutout, a hard -bit territorial in the next bed, squandered • day's supply of energy to lean across and whieeer sympathetically to him: "Old man . Vieux espece de choux- croute . . . I kttow how 1t Is . . , and 1 haven't got any friend% either. I went you to take my Croix de Guerre.... When 1 go nowhere." Even when speech returned to the Individual he was a unlit of curt re - movies and sting;ug uronosyllables- • problem to the surgeons. ■ problem to he nurses and (if the expression In his Heyes meant anything), tin over- whelming problem to himself. It ap- peared that, after all, it wasn't simply women that he hated -It was the unl-- verse. Ills military book Implied that he had no parents, no close relations, so friends t? notify, no fixed abode. 111 ived n0 helloes, no letters, N Cages frelg ted with magical de- llg1i(, But to th a who pitied him la all l t\ lonellness a was utterly con - tempus; he ever wept so far as to fillip sidelong to th floor a religious , post card tendered h b1 • devout and sentimental passer y. rd he did It in her presence. uuash med. Later, ed up that r his pil- tuous In he one Ills ell tot of e when a smiling orderly 141 post card and tucked It un low he was no lees cootie' permitting it to remain. But stupendous fact which, more Mae co ibiied, made him an ob bewildered curiosity was th the scores and scores of men ti head -wounds who were reborn at N Illy that epilog and summer. he the only one wbo had never asked for a mirror. This. of itself. wouldn't have beef astonlshing as long as he delayed to the preliminary stages of recovery. for n ow and then a man with head -wounds proves to be super -sensitive; but In the second stage It was remarkable, and In the third stage It was unique. The staff held it to be extraordinary from a social as well as from a path- ological viewpoint. that a mac so ter- ribly disfigured should have no Inter- est --not even a morbid interest -l0 Ms own appearance. And it wasn't that the Individual was simply indif- ferent to the mirror; on the contrary, Ms aversion to it was active and ener- getic; he flinched, and motioned It frantically away as though the men conception of seeing himself as others saw him was too repellant, and too unthinkable to endure. There came a day In April when a photograph was requested of him. Surely he knew where there was a likeness of himself, didn't het Hla Md passport photograph, which had ysteriously disappeared, or - The Individual glanced up from his present task; the wound In his arm was still annoylag end he was ab - Imbed In learning to write with his left band. "What for?' be muttered - "Why," said the nurse, cheerfully, "for a model. To help the surgeons. They'll take your picture for a guide and make you look almost exactly the way you 111 before." The Individual from America sat up straight, so that the nurse was startled by his animation, which was without a parallel la bis local history. 'What t" he said. "Certainly I" The nurse spoke la the tone one uses to an ■lling child. "You've known that. haven't year The Indivfdaal's voice was queerly unmanageable and strained. "You mean to say they're going to make me leek the way . . Could they do that/ Csald they/ Itven now? 'Why, of coarse." she assured him. "You never told me that!" he said. passionately. "Why dildn't you? Why couldn't yon have told mel And here Tye been . . ." He put his hands M h is bandaged Lace and seemed to shrink wltbin himself. Then all at once he buret out: "Weft, there's nothing to prevent . . . Then they could make ton not look Ilk* It. if they wanted tot isn't that ear Shit regarded him In vast perplexity. and drought of summoning • mimeos. fir the man bad begun to quiver as though from shell stack-whleb be hadn't undergone. "Why, I don't understand what you mesa.' she said soothingly. "But 11 you'll Just be calm and-" The Individual gestured with Sera Impstlescs, "If they cam do what you sal. and intake me leek like any old thing they Meese to, then what In the dev11 are *IV asking for a photograph fort" hy, to he said elplessly l"Sou want go Zook •Ulm your old ssll, ldert 7oar err*, 1 dost r Tim euros gasped. His M* had bees Geeda Dervirtd to All Parti of the Tate ' j •arlltA, hat the oche of It vaguely megdasted triumph sad ,envie Il bs marmen tgtloreu rrle sarcasm. "Bach to work. eh' eVhnt did yen my your line Is?" "I didn't say. 1 haven't anv lust now," Harmon pondered a second. "Oh! Gentleman of leisure? Sol- dier of fortune, eh? %Vets, I wouldn't worry If 1 were you. You're disap- pointed; isappointed; that's natural . . . hut the world baau't cmue to an enO yet.' Of coarse It Is eomethlne of it eome-dawn to leave the army and get Into harness again. but after all there's plenty of excitement right In the United States, Big work to he done, son! Big money to make. And It helps the war along. too. 1 tell yon there never was a big- ger opportunity to make money than there is right this minute. The hard Joh Isn't to find the scheme; It's to find the men to run It. Don't you worry , you'll land sem-thing right off the hat:" "Thanks for the compliment!" "Oh. it's no compliment! Anybody can make homey these days. It's a plain statement of fact . . . Say, let's go In and have something. Come In and he sortable. Whae lou w'ant's a (Wilk. Aiu I right or aril I wrongY' .'Lett Them Make Me Look Like That" "Rill-" "And that's what the doctor ere P4mptotus had subsided . could dere)! Come so! It's on me." tt be that he actually was rettevedl The other man hesitated. and at bumfounded, she made another effort last succumbed. out of sheer uneoi- to convince him. cern. to a companlonshzp he rs•atlzed "But you want to look Just as near In advance would be distasteful. Uke-" "All right," he consented briefly; "Don't you suppose I know what 1 and together, arm In ane, they stunt - want? he Interrupted rudely. bled and tacked acroas the treacherous "But haven't yen a photograph, any deck, and preeeuUy crossed the thresh - way. that I can-" old into the hazy light of the smoking "No, I haven't"' he snapped. •'1 room. Hamel, smiling broadly, wiped haven't" It was a Ile; the passport the brine from his smarting ayes. photograph was In the lining of a cels I "Now, then." he ald, "what partici- 'res wallet. and he had hid It there lar brand *f poison do yew-" And for reasons of his own. But nose tbat ibroke off short sad stared. faactatsdh, as. &eat danger was definitely pact at the extraordinary young maa 11 Mat of him. end a still further bulwark of protie. Hon offered, if the nurse spoke truth. the Individual could afford to cones out from ambush. "And I don't want to look the way I did before, and what's more 1 never did: But if your doctors are half es smart as they think they are let 'em make me look like that! Or anything else eltbae-s I don't give a ti—n!" - - bath the fire of immaturity and the Shocked and horrified, ahs was gas• drain of experience; there was breath- ing at a picture postcard he had baking gravity about 11, • hint of the snatched front under his pillow and dignity of marble. of ageless perma- thrust upon her. It was a reproduc- tion of • religious painting by Rem- brandt. It was the radiant face of the Christ. Be was anywhere from twenty-five 1s forty. this American from the dis- tant tranches, and his age was as hard to guess as a clever woman's; then MIS something about him peculiar to youth, and yet when his face was 1■ repose. be might easily have claimed two score of years and gone undis- puted. It was a face which suggested CHAPTER II. Nine o'clock on a night in Jane -Cee a nes evening, heavy -starred 'on vett but a furious June night. with vet, Sty and Ing, dark, traitor: 0 hugged the watched the Out of the the vitiated atm Ing room came florid, exuberant. the deck sent him he saved his balan aenee. 1t was a slightly thin fate. scarred by a heavy line or two. aid tsdellbly stamped with the evidence sf Intense thought and Inward suffer- ing; but It kicked the hollows which. et the first glance, should hart sup- ported the evidence. it was a thin and rival face, with a mouth of large and sympathetic sweetness. ■ fnrrhead ellIte and high, \a prominent, delicate n blackness looping overhead, snse, and Irises ' of clear. luminous glen water battering and boll- Kray. It wasn't altogether an Anglo - n th• pThsMp S axon type of countenance, nor was u thehull nightlates Itself;e Dlfsd t definitely European ; It seetne•t Ut a single ray to play the rather to have taken all the better deck a solitary vesture, IUatltl•s from vwveral racea. It was rail, end apathetically t face to Inspire immediate cruet and sea tear pest ,onfidenee and respect. and Harman, •ankh and cheer sad lesplte his lack of practice to all three phere of the amok- 11 these reactions, was evidently st- •rttn Harmon' Mg, 'torted by It. e "Vichy-Celestinm for mesaid id the heating lift of dng sidewise; old -young man lndtfferentiy. �" by struggling " i'l1 . . . i cues. 1'11 have Hgsy suddenly Use toward the rail, when nn," said Harmon. relating. "1f tt slope was reversed. anti he ellppedrwasn't for something 1 can't jest de*. and slid to the barrier` of safety, trrlbe ('d any . . well. never clutched it, and found him' f at arm's sled. Er . . . what business have er, who ed tie length from the lonely wat hadn't stirred, or even heed. "Heller said Hannon. lits tinctured with easy familiarity. " night!" "Yes, tt Is." The tone of the sponse was curt, so cart that normal Instinctively leaned forward to Mr cover what expression of countenance :h went with It. The night was so Alae% totti\ mist have been a whirlwind! that he might as well have tried 1M Why. man with ■ presence like yours would direly hare to open Ale mnnth! of a port of . . . 1'11 be know what to cait tt . , , of keeling. If yoe know Salesman! Why. alt introduction and • dot - fou been In. by the way" The younger rnnn's reply was tardy and not particularly gracious. "Why. the iongeet time 1 ever put n at any one business was selling In- mrance. The last thing i did was to tell bonds. Why?" Harmon stiffened. "A snleeman! Lord! Thee the last thing in world 1',1 have . . . hut. say! penetrate a cnrtain of solid fabric. "Seen •ny U -!amts yet?' he asked humorously. "Not yet." The taciturn one moved a trifle away; a mu term thin skinned what i mea and leas dined and wised than filar Ino need Is a mos would probably have taken the 'ed liner htat and removed himself, but Har The young m mon'. was an Ingsldttve dtapoaltfou1 ornly and sipped and he never attempted to curt, It- "Duet at present he was the sort of traveling comps" Harmon's gaze wa ion who makes Christians reflect ftp.- ifs Interest and atim on the dennttlsn of justifiable bond. higher. Mechanically, dde. with his habits. he was st 'What is your Itne? he Inquired after a pause. The other min laughed queerly. Vou've singed 1 tut a tin laughed rnther fur- ls vichy. haven't either." unfaltering. and Cation bounded accordance sing to die - !over how this new aegnalntance night be put to practical u. . "Was 1 right, or was 1 wrong? PI ing In "The first . . . If It makes as bard luck don't strengthen it man's much difference to you." !nurge much, even If he tries to tuff "Reg pardon? I don't quite get yam 1lrnself Into thinking It does. Cut ut You said . . :he regret stuff; that's my advice. a I "i said the first line. 1 meant ea you can take It or leave It. Forget fleet -line trenches. Tye bees In It' NI that tough lock you had over here. Harmon jerked his bend upward!. slid get busy figuring nut haw you're comprehension. going to cash In on all your expert- "Obe i seat You mean the wart encs. America's full of chagces- And you've been right on the spot rou'li land something Mg In no time. where the fighting Is? Pretty lively Can't help It If you try. Saleatnen 1 tip there. Isn't it? Something atlrrtng .;• n• you're carrying your beet recom- mnst all the timer mendetlon right on lop M your own "I Imagine sin." The other man's ' ;boulders!" screed was amazingly diffident. sad The young men gave him hack a wry Harmon peered at him. incredulous. smile and fiul hie his vtchy. "Good Lord. don't you know?" "i only haps. 11 e,,i. erne." he said. 'Not a great deal. I happened he Harman I.ru'•d pt Will steadily, and get bit the first day i was in the felling under •h. skarn of thnee radiant trenches," features mete,. .11,e1 stared until he "Rat you got In it again afterward, i suppose? Tit bet you d1d 1" "N," "What! You never gee hack at .0 Joe eve day, and you're through,' "Yes. After T was discharged from hospital f area dlsrharged trace w army toe. Permanently salt.' "English army?" "Ivo -Tress*' 'Well, that. sense ruee,d r eat4 Rarpaos apprciattvely. "'Met cer- tainly is some rererd t s Wet es ass tough tort -the freshest Med. Oaf} Met hems, I take It?' Teats Hat wow Awass't IIP 'Tse cl••uned up most of my Mosey." said Hermon very slowly to the cell - Int;. "by making quick decisions. 1 uutke up illy midi pretty fust. If you .1.i 44 lulcrea me ou .hurl uulire you eau iuterea oilier people. \tinct you. we're Incl discussing Ihl. .ort of thinking oat loud. ,Nei obligation on either .i•te. 1hw.n't do tiny harm t, tell. shout It, does 11r. "1'1 en .uldstse,"'rNil; the your: .11:1 nlaeol;) "you define your I,1.•e or e g,snl job. um rtrher p:utirchu� "Tat )oil adult you're 0111 01 111.'.. " Itul )ou admit 1111 n whirls i•td.' The )ohne utao dulled with (Niue •ionsetneUL "Meaning What? nand yea meat is be -with woe tag;:" Phe 7bas mac'% mouth tuned up ward at the corners. "Oe ahead and describe the Job." "Well, my idea of a pretty sweet Jot for • ma■ at your age le -to start, of course -about twenty • week and commissions-" "Yee? What per cent commisstonr "Oh, eight to ten per rent" The young man glanced at Harmon and laughed quietly. "You're a broker. of rourse, but that doesn't sound mu.•h like cone•natt•I investment securltL•• t• me. What Is It -Industrials'" Harmnn grttneeed "Yes. I'm a broke -r" He set dawn his glass and fumbled Inc a earl "There! Rut i was thlnktng mors • hunt stocks than hones Some new Montana properties-eopper aid zinc Metals are the hug noise three day%. 1 guess you reattre that, don't youl Munition wort." The younger man gtaneed at the earl. "My name Is Hilliard. Well -- 1s competitlos so keen you can afford to pay that high for huelaess, or U the stuff Net hard to sell?' Hannon. who had begun to nod as- sent to the first question. looked rather blank at the second. but rallied. quickly. "Competition. Rut there's money In It. and you'll get your share of It too -- believe one! 1'•e got a sneaking as• pilon that you and 1 e'en do business together. Wyant to consider lir. "All this on much short acquaint- ance? Aren't you taking a fearful chance?" Hermon saw that the young maa's Irises were extremely Inmt•nue sot) clear; he leaned forward seriously. "i'm %Imply barking my hunch. mon in the tong nn It pay% me -pays me well. i've sort of taken a fancy to vont. As far am 1 knew you may be the rotben.,t salesman in the whole !jolted Rtat•.; I wouldn't hire your erperlenre wlthnut same references, • wA m•ehe • .erne rime.•.. h• -k car you; but rd hire that race or yon and your manner, end your voice o hand. I'd hire your front -not your past! And let nue tell pun tight nowt son. I never matte a trade ins fest al thlr before to my life. But there's something about you that . . . \Velli The young man was thoughttul and nuhttuk1ng. •'You're actually maklltg m,• tt prop. osltlon, are ytmu?' ' Ahwilutely'--Harmon'• est m ilia table provided the ezciatnatlon point. "Herr -1 don't know you, arnl Je11 don't know me, hut 1f you're Mullen( for a Job you've found It. . . your next move-" The young man's lips parted la grave good humor; tlarinon wu. .pell- bound at the effect. "111 try hot to keep you welting• This speed of yours rather entices ma, Itesldes. If my face Is my fortune, I'd hotter rind It out as sown as possible. This organization of yours Is (u New Yoc1, 't Ito' "Mrky h17eadquaIsnrters are, but I'd wast you to work outside. I've got n;le pa. cast town In mini -rap the state Times where tills Ilat Is. 'svt one of our hardret mItasrketsatw, asndbeeIt's got money to burn Can't swing tis somehow• -they don't respond to any ordinary selling talk; they're Gs, hide- heund cunaervative. You know the kind. (;overnnlent-bond erred And for it year or so they've been waking war profits 1111 you can't ser 'eel for duet. Ilsnufadurine town. And I'd Ilke mighty we11 11 whip you up there fur n month or two; glue you bums enorieh to get your t*brings, and turf you I•s,se. You ought to do greet wort Ina piece like that. They need ■ chap like you -confound It!" He halted abruptly and shark ills head In great bewilderment. "I can't make It eft e t all! You've got the appearance et a . . well • sort of a stralt-laced youngster. If you know what 1 mesa. and )et the way you say things. 1-" The voting man gestured blandly. "And the town you have In mind?' "It's Syracuse. New York." "ttsrscuaele The ),tong man's chin sed- •.;used by • ruler, and noticeably thrust f.rward. 't'es. ►now auybo,ly there?' H!Illnr) laughed unpleaaantty •ni1 rraameel hie former attitude. ••N'hv It s -t happen%." h• maid, bit- ing the word.' off sharply. "'flint i was horn and brought up In Syracn%e. and If there's any one place In the world i care less about than any other place that'," the one . . . I'm sorra, hut I'm afraid we're at twos purpose. from here ns." Harmon showed his v•xuttert ••whs". the matter? Haven't you kept ,on p••"1 terms with year old friends? 1lirmon frowned. • It',•b1 Im It so ha•1 you routdn't ds any 'oustneas there? How do they rr tn••,v� .•r eau?" eT.. be Continuedi SAVED BABY'S LIFE )iia Alfred Tranchemootagne. St. Lliehl4 dee :taints. Que.. writes:- ' laby's own Tablet- are an excellent :u.slic•Ince. They saved my baby's life and i can highly re.•ommend than to elk mothers.' lira Traa•he•mnntagne's e•sperie pr 1s that of thou -ands of other mOIhefa who have t, -'tet the w..rth of Itahv'A tlwe Tablet. The Tnhlet• are a sure and Rafe medicine for little ones and never fail to re•gn- I.ite the bowel. and-tomae•h thus re- lieving all the minor illy from which e•Iyldr•o suffer. They are «,Id by !WA Wino• dealers or by mall at 'S. events ✓ hos from The Itr. Williams' Medi- cine ('o Broekrille, Ont i' In Porta Rica they have decided to present repeat voting by having all voters cant their ballots unshaven 1 and then r.e..-1ve • shave from an el,eti o official. Thin Is surely clean politer,. ^eme to 1,4 a ,nr1 all at once I rnnt:ht h'• tt osoi nn the table, so that th• give n•r seem. "Weil .4. .1, ,,tdn'1 It? As a mat- ter of fact. eh, •hootdn't Ito' The younger mon a expression hadn't changed. late, , ,' what 1" "Meaning," - ' Harmon deliberate. ly. "that the firm thing I've got to de when 1 get to, ., • to to hunt rap • maple of gond sat•••••,•u myself Are you bnnllns Inca geed Jeb, or aren't your "Aren't you a little hamtyr The men • tntnMtlaw Sam ••-a."t- d e Fresh Odor of Clean Clothes SURPRISE - thoroughly C e(i U garm.nb and fab rics, leaving them soft/ well washed, and with that fresh odor `o plesaiod b particular housekeepers. e,