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The Exeter Advocate, 1918-5-30, Page 2wTY'r T/11171FT copyrlgnt Houghton Missile Company ey special arrangenie'iit. sena Thos. Allem. 1 or.onto CHAPTER III.--•(Cont'd.) Corcoran turned his back and walk- ed away. The next moment he was dancing with a young woman con spieuous for her unnaturally yellow hair, vermilion cheeks, and generally meretricious effect. "1 didn't want him to get mad," Nora confided plaintively to Jerry. t'.I don't see why he had to go and get mad." t, "1 don't see why you care if be did, "Oh, I don't care very much. For, after all, he'lI soon be all right again." Jerry thought it curious and trying that sireshould derive satisfaction from that prospect. He suggested that if she was ready to go kerne, he was. "Well, I suppose so." She seemed' now more than half reluctant. "It's not a very good crowd for you to be mixed up in," Jerry said apolo- getically. "That was why I was, "Oh, .Jerry, I'm ,glad you're taking the home." The little speech, the slender, gentle,' clinging creature made Jerry'•s heart 1 thump excitedly, "I'm glad too," he said, and stopped there, throbbing, in- articulate. "I didn't like it in there.,,, I didn't like Charley Corcoran as well in there." "How about me?" "Oh, you, I liked you just as well. Better." She glanced at hint and seemed to cling a little closer. "Yes. It was so good to see you." He turned with her from the main street into one that was more quiet, less brightly lighted. "Why, Jerry, where are you going? This. isn't the way home." "Don't you want to walk for a lit- tle while? I'll take you home after I've talked with you." She did not reply, and he knew then that she was ready for what he had to say. It made the saying of it easier. "Nora,I love you. I want to marry you, Nora P11 work for you and love you as long as I live." The words flowed from him in a tremulous undertone, the more appeal.. ing, the more convicing, perhafor their quivering, breathless eagerness. She did not withdraw her hand front his arm; she murmured, "Oh, Jerry!" "Oh, Nora, don't you love me?" She was not disposed to answer that question. Still she did not withdraw her hand; intent upon exacting all the perquisites of a young woman in her situation, she said "Why do you love me, Jerry?" Why- shouldn't he? When she was the prettiest, the smartest; the best? Didn't the sound of her voice hang in his ears and make its own soft music there all day long while the hammers were pounding and the blasts were be- ing blown off? Wasn't she just a darling through and through? Wasn't she, though?—and suddenly aware that the street was as deserted as it was dark, and that she had not with- drawn her hand, Jerry seized her in his arms with a wild and joyous cour- age,; and kissed her, kissed her, kissed her. She stopped him at last with a gentle reproof:— "Why, Jerry, I didn't say you could. do that." "Yes, but you didn't mind it, really? You you liked it a little?" "Why, I don't know. It was such a strange thing for you to do, Jerry." APii s`&Rt?AD IN s reeenea 'atElimmales a8 guess fP o fir; wk motgeekerbread, N t° !�/ rolls • etc•; without .trouble. Saves flour • Peed helps coorerve ills Nation t food Convenient, quick 'and less—hands tc do notdouolh dough. Delivered ell charges +a '' paid to yourhome,or througl, your dealer—' font loaf size $2.75 t eight !oar size $3 25. E. r.WM!GHToo,, HAMILTON CANADA "Yes, but you liked it?" • "Well,"•- she hesitated,—"I suppose I sortliked it --a little." And now that need for courage was all past, it was with a wild, and joy- ous confidence that Jerry seized her in his arms. "I almost feel sorry for Corcoran," Jerry cried triumphantly. "And how T hated him a few moments ago!" "I wonder if I'm being mean to hien," Jerry, in some alarm, assured her that she was not. "I think maybe I am, It was just because he liked me so that he kissed me. The same rea- son that you did . "Yes, but you didn't like it from him and you did from nie," said Jerry jealously. "So don't be thinking of him any more, Nora darling:" "I won't be thinking of him the way I do of you, Jerry." That qualification pleased him bet- ter even than an obedient promise of full renunciation could have done; his soaring spirits had to find expression in another rapturous, hug and kiss. "Oh, Nora! I didn't dare hope -I was afraid you with your talent and all—" "I haven't any talent—that's all dad's and mother's foolishness." "They think you have --and any- way they count on your marrying something more than a .mill -hand. Thiswill be an awful blow to them— but you don't care—not too much, do you, Nora?" "I could never have married some swell, the kind they wanted me to." The calm crudity of the statement grated a little on Jerry, even in the extremity of his adoration. was I to get the chance? It wasn't as if I could ever be a great artist and have society men always at my feet." "But even if you'could, you wouldn't want to—not now, would you, Nora?" She laughed and pushed him away. "You mustn't' be. expecting me to be too crazy about you all at once." "Yes, but I do. I' want you to marry me all at once." "Oh, my goodness, no Such a time as I'd have with the family! I don't dare." "Waiting won't make it any easier." "Maybe it will. When they see that nothing else is likely to happen. Besides, I couldn't tell them now, Jerry. Dad's paid for a full term for me at the Conservatory, and I've got to go ahead just as if I meant it. I wouldn't dare not to." "Anyway we can give them fair warning what to expect." "Indeed we'll not, Jerry dear. It's Me that has to live in that house, not you. We'll give them no warning at all, not uutil the time comes." "When will the time come, Nora ?" ''Ah, now, Jerry, how :can I eettle a thing like that at the moment? It's got to be thought over." "All right, let's begin to think about it. Here it is, the end of October; what do you say to next spring? Your music term will bo over, and maybe 1'11 have a raise by the; and —anyway I can't wait any longer, Nora darling," "Well, .maybe by the time it gets to be June," "It's a month in midsummer. Spring, I said," "1'11 see how .I'm feeling, perhaps, when it gets along towards April." So they walked and talked in whispers, all up and down the quiet streets, and up and down again. He couldn't take her home, for there they couldn't talk; and she wouldn't con- sent to come with him to his house and oonflde to his mother the happy news. No, she was quite firm on that point; no one should even suspect it until she announced it to ,her. own' family. For you couldn't trust any- body with a secret like that; if you did, it would he .sure to get round. And though it disappointed him that his mother was not to be enlightened and share in his happiness, he was still too happy to argue about that; he was still happy enough just to walk and talk in whispers, and over and over again, when no one could see, to kiss her and feel her sweet, warm kisses on his lips. And she; must have liked it too; that was the exhilarating and excit- ing thought that he finally bore home with him; for it was late, quite late, when she bade him good -night at her door. CHAPTER IV. `Jerry felt that it was very hard to be as happy as he was and not let people know about it. There was no satisfaction in having people see you were happy unless you told; them why. Besides, the world began to ' go wrong in various ways. In the first place, Maxwell was elected to Con- gress; even in his radiant condition Jerry took this incident deeply to heart. To him a Congressman had seemed of necessity a man who tow- ered above other men in character and intellect and virtue; he had believed that the men who sat in Congress were all patriotic, earnest students of public questions, high-minded, > and sincere. That hiss district should choose as it representative a shallow .;hariaitan chagrined him, made him feel humiliated; the district was guilty of profaning and polluting person- alCapitol. It was no mere erson- : al resentment in Jerry that cried out at the news of the honor conferred on Maxwell; it was the inborn sense, of respect for• law and lawmarkers, and of reverence for the institutions of liberty. Then there was the renewal of re- lations between Nora and Charley Corcoran—a renewal indicating to any casual observer that Corcoran was again a suitor, and that Nora was Mrs. Brown Makes a Clean Sweep. "What are you doing, Mrs. Brown; are you moving, or what?" Mrs. Sim- mons had stopped at the little front gate, her curiosity attracted by the sight of all the belongings of the Brown family scattered about the yard in the bright spring sunshine. "Do you remember the lecture we heard on home -making last winter? I wrote down the little text and it has haunted me ever since: 'Have nothing in your home:, that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.' Most people might suppose that I was just doing an extra house cleaning, but I am really having it out with my own character. I say to something, "Are you useful?' and then I say 'tea myself, `Have you enough strength of mind to"get rid of it?'" ' "I had to be feeling pretty firm be- fore I could do it, but you know as well as I do that there is no sense in keeping a lot of stuff no one ever uses," Mrs. Brosm continued. "I dust that chair, and we all stumble over it but no one ever sits in it. The 02.7.6 �(` old what -not is just a catch-all and is ars only in the way when we want to get near the window;" Mrs. Brown was going critically from one article to ililld'llli1N111llilillfiid111lllli9l1ii111I119118?t another. "Now this little table with TF there was just one =» .-4L WALKER HOUSE , In each town where r Igo go'My troubles then would last like that Proverbial ball of snow. Of which I have no doubt at all Ano otee NOay Att. Ntnites Rut you have oft' heard. tell. 1 mean the ,one Which people say Was located down in ---well! a doesn't matter 'bout that snow Which could never last, the drawers can be painted and will make a convenient place for my sew- ing things, but that rickety old stand is of no earthly use." "But why did you bring, everything out here?" asked Mrs, Simmons. I It was easier to begin with a glean slate. Goodness knows, I'm tired of dusting all the little gimcracks, and I'm tired of seeing all the confusion. I took seventeen silly things off the mantel -piece. 1 am going' to put back the clock and an old pair of candle- , sticks that look lovely, now that they ' are polished. It rests me just to ball` What int'rests you and iso is klavinr, comforts to us passed• And 1 know PEACE aad JOY and HAPPINESS To me would flow, if there was ,just one 'WALTER "= HOUSE Ie each town where I go. The !-louse of Plenty The 'alk r House Toronto Fium +s• "& Proprietors 'rietor's Wrightg Co.,' ' rid' of that tit,,•ly, dark, big -figured 1flii'rilaill1111111ilElilililll#1lllililla paper. the room is :so stud' more think about it. Then I've taken down all the mussy old calendars and such . things than were tacked up on the wall, The hardest thing for me to know is what pictures I ought to keep, .-. but I em sure the plain wall is better than the trash that was stuck around!' "Have you had the sitting -room it papered, Mrs. Brown?" "Yes,trywith one of those lovely, al- r�nst plain papers the lecturer showed us, I've had it put right up to the ceiling, without any border. You can't imagine what a relief it is to be cheerful, and it looks larger, for some reason. Come in and see it." The empty room certainly offered an inviting beginning "Take off your hat,- Mrs. Simmons, and let us see what- we can do with the furniture. Don't you think this blue Scotch rug is pretty with the tan wall? I am so glad I got it, instead of that red Axminster Jones tried to sell me. The floor looks pretty bad, doesn't it? I'd like to have, a hard- wood border outside the rug now, so I.. have sent for some of that patent floor covering and will have it fitted all around the edges; coming well under the rug, which lies in the centre. I' chose a good wood color to look well with the blue rug and harmonize with the paper." They went back into the yard' and Mrs. Brown stopped before a shabby, comfortable old sofa. "Are you use- ful? se-ful? Yes. Are you beautiful? No -o, except that there is something. beautiful in being so 'comfy.' I know —a fresh -looking slip cover will fix: you. If I can fit covers to the whole family I guess I can do it for a piece of furniture. I'm just crazy to shows what I can do with slip covers and fresh paint!" The two women carried the sofa in- side. "Now that oldwhat=not is out of the way we can have the sofa be-, fore the big window, with my little sewing -table at this end. Next win- ter we'll have it face the fireplace, with its back against the big table, so it will be convenient to the lamp' and magazines." „ Every piece of furniture was chal- lenged in turn. Many were found. wanting, Those that were saved were carried in and thoughtfully placed, Some were set aside for, renewal by means of paint,' but others were heroically discarded. "What are you going to. do with them?" said Mrs. Simmons. To her frugal mind Mrs. Brown's wholesale elimination looked almost wasteful. "I am going to send them to the Salvation Army. A lot of the stuff'. wedon't need can be fixed up so it will be useful for some one." Finally the two women sat down to. survey the result. "I'd never know. it was the same roan)," frankly admit- ted Mrs. Sitrimofi5. "But doesn't it look comfortable and restful?" Mrs. Brownsighed contentedly. "1t certainly does, and before long the whole home gOing to show the effect of the sante kind of treatment," Cream Wanted SWEET OR CHURNING DREAM We supply Dano, par exproro ;Alarming and remit daily,. Our price next week fifty-two oellts i2utanl DUTY lead Creamery., Oo. 748-8 =tet St. Wein Toronto again willing to be wooed. Of course, as she explained to Jerry, she wasn't, and it warn+t serious, and there was no need for hint to getealous; she. just had to keep her faintly from suspecting that she was engaged, and she couldn't do it unless she saw some- thing of other men. Every Wednesday night while Jerry was r ing n t e Y.M.C.A. Hall, she and Corcoran went into the catty to some play or other. Jerry remons- trated with her, told her it was unfair to Corcoran and very disturbing to himself; but she only laughed and said that he needn't have Corcoran on his mind• She was going to have what fun she could while she was still unmarried, and as for Charley. Corcor- an, he was perfectly well able to take care of himself, To Jerry all this was perplexing— the more so when, in a further en- deavor to elucidate and justify her be- havior, Nora explained to him that they weren't really engaged yet, were 'the Apple Tsar. ' On summer days a coaxing hand i eops luring me to bloc otil land It leads on through a dreamy Blaze flack to the Witching childhood ways-' Along the barefoot -beaten lane, Around the field of swishing grain, Past bush and fiower and shady nook, Across the flower -tufted brook, And then I see through misty eyes The orchard old before mo rise And while the boughs in welcome bend, I follow on down to the end. Yes, yes, it lives—my apple tree And all the"orchard !laugghs with mel My tree! Ah, now I .unclerstan l The magic of that coaxing handl If We Return. If we return, will England bo Just England still toeyou and me? The place where we must earn our bread? We who have walked among the dead, And watched thesn;iile of agony, And seen the price of Liberty, Which we have taken carelessly From other hands. Nay, we shall dread, just expecting to be. Such a distlne- If we return, tion was too fine for him to grasp, es- Dread lest we hold blood -guiltily pecially as he was permitted the en- The things that men have died to dearmeiits that he had always sup- •.free, posed existed legitimately only be- Oh, English fields shall blossom red tween those whose intentions were ' quite definite. He concluded that girls For all the blood thathas been shedmen whose guardians are wo had different ideas from men about By' things, that was all; and so, when he caught himself, as he sometimes did,. questioning or criticizing in his own mind Nora's course, he hastily erected over her that large,' vague sheltering excuse. (To be continued.) England Ploughs Tactor. Government tractors, rapidly are turning the soil for the planting the coming summer crops. In West Sussex in one month. Government tractors ploughed 1,412 acres. Wood ashes used liberally will benefit flower and vegetable gardens. 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