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The Brussels Post, 1938-3-9, Page 3THE SRUSSEX•S POST WEDNESDAY,MARCH 9th, 19$8 NEW STORY Starts This Week .. . Be Sure To Read This Glamorous Thrilling Novel ENTITLED "Out of the Storm" By Peter Munday CHAPTER I. The Mystery Man. There was something fresh and virginal about Gale Desmond, remi• niaaent .of the dawn else. Iwo hours previously had flooded the valley with light, and turned the distant mountain tops into tpennacles of um earthly glory, She was the type of girl who would inevitably attract the ay'tten- bton of any artist who happened to see 'her. She had the authentic touch df loveliness, with dark brown hair fitting closely abort a small bead, wide, dreamy eyes, and a scarlet full -lipped mouth, In ad- dition, there was, a wistfulness about leer that was irresistible. Not above me.c1itlm height, she was ,r=ender, with a boyish figure set off to perfection, and the fingers of the hands reet4ng on the veranda railing in front of her were long and slender, and full of character. From the eminence upon which the house was built, she could see out over the entire width of the valley. From the bottom , of ,the garden, eche ground fell steeply away to where die silver streak of a distant river could -be seen winding Its way through reed fringed banks, .Beyond the river, a range of saw- toothed mountains stood out clear and sharp in the hot morning Sun- shine, and .further north, the snow - ,capped peak of Mt. Kenya brooded in a'i nt maiesty over the magnifi- cent seene. Everything was on a huge scale, and the colours '.'ere equally dur- ing. Without blending, yet W!thoatt (Rahannatty, blues and reds and browns vied with each other in at- liemp'dng to strike an individual note, and the gaily coloured, birds of paradise flitting in and out of the grove of poplars, ae the foot of beauty of the mornings, of there is none in the world to come pars, The air was like chempa4gne, and it would be some hours yet be- fore the increasing heat drove away the last of the mists. which, tenuous as a chiffon veil, were rising from the river. She bad been standing there about five minutes when the sound of footsteps caused her to return, to see her employer, the .mother of the two children to Whom, Gale acted as governess, "Good morning!" Marten Redfern was a pretty woman who managed her adortug husband and her house- hold with a rare combination of tact and efficiency, which produced a surprisingly happy atmosphere. She had treated Gale as rue of the fam- ily since the latterts arrival at Haheaga. At the moment her eyes. were alight with enthusiasm, "I've told Jerogl to set the break - Case. table on the veranda," she said. ']ft's such a heavenly morn- ing it would be a sin to miss a moment cf it, Have you ever seen anything s•e gorgeous as the hills look to -day?" "I 'haven't! rt's beyond descrip- tion. And' the air—', "That's how I feel, It's worth sweltering through a rainy season jus: for this. And to think—in London 'I't's probably foggy at the moment!" Gale laughed, The comparison seemed so ridiculous. "I can hardly believe. such things as fogs exist," she .confessed, 'Every clay I'm here I'm thankful I came. I wouldn't change my lot for anything." Marion's, eyes twinkled. "Don'e be too sure." she 'warned, "When I sane you getting off the bcat my heart fell! 1 knew we ,rltouldtl't keep you long with us." which the slope seemed to combine in 1 ""'Y " (tale's eyes °pent' in colours. of the rainbow. I At her expression Marion laegh- Gale drew a deep breath, and 1 ed outright. leaned against; the stone pillar Sup- I Don't you ever Ioak Ina mirror'!" porting the veranda roof, around 1 sbe teased, "You surely don't which a scarlet bougainvillea. grew ! think you're going to escape ---i ' in wild profusion, Ste haat' only Gale flushed. been in Kenya four months and had "Oil!" she exclaimed, "Please their iridescent wings' all the alarm. `I—%artery--" sat yet grown accustomed to the 1 clan't " rMarion's mood changed, "You positively frighten me at Thyme," she said with emptiasis. °You're such a law unto yourself, I mean." "T believe In hiving :sly- own life lit my own way." "That's all right, 'But, untor- tenntely people who.do that are seldom popniatr--•w^itlt 'heir owe sex," s'a'lt' Marion. clerkly. 'You're new out here yet—" ,She broke off, AL frown of Mete- elelel marring her brows, .arty you trying to warn rue about something ' 'risked dale, amusedly, Follow summer to its all -year home. Thrill to golf under blue slues, relax on warm sands. For a winter vacation or a longer stay, there is never a dull moment. And living costs are very moderate. Choose your own route. Fates apply director via the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver and Vic- toria to San Francisco in one or both directions. FULL INFORMATION AS TO ROUND TRIP • STANDARD FARE • TOURIST FARE • COACH FARE On Application to any Auenl CANADIAN NATIONAL P I O BAC PIPE TOBACCO F011 A MILO.000L SMOKE • bheaitselvee on 40 41i0 veranda, BettY, aged four, was triumphantly holding aloft a small, spotted tree frog In her chubby hands, and John, aged six, was uttsucceesfaily endeav- ouring to conceal beneath anair of mescaline 'superiority his envy ae his sister's gond fortune, With an exclamation, Gal � out - pert on to one knee and hand into which Betty promptly dropped the quivering little crea- ture. 'Oh, 13etly," she said reproaehful- ly. "How unkind: How would you like to be taken from your nice home and carried og by the leg?" Betty openee her china .blue eyes, and glanced uncertainly from Cale .to her mother, and then ,back again. She .appeared to be con. s'id'ering the matter. At length— "I s'pe'cs I s'ltould swy," she an- nounced gravely. "Girls alwayscry," interjected John eicoratully, "Don't they, Miss Desmond?" +Marion turned away to bide n smile. 'She lent Gale to take the oilmontunity of pointing a moral to the children, after which the girl made .hem accompany her to the hibiscus hedge at Ole bottom of the garden, where the frog was re- turned uubarened to its home. Gale bad been thankful for the interruption however. Thoroughly free from vanity, it had never occur- red to her that the increasing num- ber of male visitors to Mehenga had anything to do with her. 13ut Marion's warnleg had put a differ- tion." ant complexion on the matte:', anti Womanlike, Gale wanted to know she felt uncomfortable, Actually, she was as beret whole as she had more. been the day elle arrived, and could \'11at is' he like?' she asked. "To truthfully ecty. that of all the men look at, I mean." she had met no one teat made any (To Be Comttuned,) more tmpr es:on than another. '73ecanse i8 you are -- "Nat exactly, Only, Kenya's a Meer country. We've Sat' too malty ellgt'bie bachelors and too few gins, Adel' to that ht's at lonely life out here, and you have all the atmaterials for a quite exulting ex- plosion. d just wanted to fine owe i f- 'ie---" Ga'e redd'enecl, "The ,tum;wet is in ,the negative," She said. "Brut don't ;,worry Rhea rte, When the time comes, if it ever dues,. 1'11 carve ,out. my awn dies';lay" '1 believe rut will," replied commented heifers, slyly. "Ali the Marion. "!lf only—" 1 district ---the feminine pant of it, at "1,00tcl Look! ISO gat a ,'wog!" ; anyrate—wand] give their pars In Thera was a sudden s'cr'amble, and : know what it's aril about!" Gale's 'Iwo charges tprcolpltat'ed , "So would the Wren!'' retorted his wile, "You can't get away with that, my lea! You're ae curious a£' the rest of us," 'Redfern grinned, "Merely because he hoppt'ns to be unsociable," he commenced, when ]tib wife interrupted hem. "There's, more in it than unsooia- llility, Alec;' she remarked thought - fatly. "I'm contain there's a story." Gale looked interested, "Of whom are you speaking?" she asked, "I haven'', met hien, have I?„ ",scarcely anyone has," replied. Merlon. "Malar McAllister came out here Just neem two year's ago and bought a small farm tee the head of the valley, Naturally, as one does to a place like thin, several of his ueighbore called after he had settled in, and tried to make fr'iend's, You know how it is --'we always' 'try to make a new charm feel at home—" "There isn't a colony in the world like Kenya for that sort of thing," interposed Redfern, "And—I don't quite know bow, it seemed generally .a.neelted that he was all right, if yon know what I mean. Retired Army man, and ail that sort of thing, Seemed to have money, too," Gale nodded, One of the first thtugs that had struck her on her Arrival was the free and easy cam- araderie or the colonists, and she could imagine what had hapeeend. "Well," Redfern continued 'I rode over to invite him to dinner. He received me with perfect. politeness, but made it quite clear that all he asked of life was to be le1't alone," "How strange—' Marion nodded. 'But thata not 'ail. It became ,obvious that he knew something of the couu'try, even if he was new to this part of the world. You can't scop 'boyre' from talking, you know. Then, one day, he chisel/Peered!" 'Disappeared? YOU mean—" "It leaked out that he had de- parted with a small party of 'boys' —Porters and gumbearers, and so on for the interior, and had left his farm in charge of his head boy. Ile was away about five menthe, and re- turned as myeteri'enaly as, he had, gene." "Signe: then," added Redfern, "he has made three more of these trips. The puzzle is what he does on 'em. It can't be hunting, as he never brings either ivory or skins back with him. le might send them away front Ole lakes—I don't know. Only I can't see any other explana- that the Dominion GOverwtnenk leis a re:l;tonsibila'ty lu seeing thee. the pubi'ic obtainer' good teed In the in- terest of the health of the people, second' it Weistts that eggg ellen be marked atec:ordiag ,to quality In order that the producer Will be peed on the basteof quality and the eon• sumer assured Of the quality hede- When sire returned to to veraudn, Jerogl the .houeeboy 'Way b•-1n,4ng on the breakfast. She .seated she children at the table, and then they were joined by Marion and her hus- hantl. 4 tic liked Alec Redfern. She coo iclerete him, a splendid example of what an Empire builder should be. "1 hear McAl!ls•ter is back again," he remarked after they had settled down. and the children had been erved, "The headrboy tells me he was to Nakuru yesterday, and saw Moan there, I wonder how long hell stay this time?'' 'Marion looked up, tied helped her. self to more "milk, "Poor man," slue said softly. "I'm sorry for him." She broke off to attend to some- 1hirg Jahn W^as wring, and then Owned eo Matte. "Major McAllister is our lnc1l mystery man," she explained. "P11 tc'Il you about him presently." The rest of the meal passed off as breakfast In the .Redfern household tieual'ly did, the ebilclt•eu keeping n1 a running fire of questions which Redfern found difficulty ii answer - lug. • WVireu they hod finiehell, aul had heen excused to run away to the orchard! and play until time for their morning lessons, Marion tools up the subject of the :man mention - rd by her husband. "Why do you call him the ,mys- tery men?" asked Gale. "Ally loan Is' a mystery to i4 VO - 1118 11 if she 1lllllks he's got a s,+ory," SILENCES Away la shadowed depths of Sum- mer woods, Where ,through the noon of day no sound' Is 'metal, A hush that thtwba, amongst! the fragrant flowers. Soft wings of ail', and mutes oath singing bird, And o'er the sleeping ,purple— breast-ed moor A haze -hest survives' far across', and tells How bees' drop down, with honey sweetness cloyed, And breezes shake the heather's soundless* bells, And In the secret places. of my soul, Where uo man enters; thought's go dreaming by; I stretch beyond this world of time sad space, And find in ,dance there—that God Is nigh, What Grading Of Eggs ,Has Done In Canada • cauatliatts, on the average, each oat about 23 dozen eggs per year. This consumption is among the highest of the, countries of the world, One reason for this un- cloubtediy is that Canadian eggs. are careeully graded according to Do- minion Government regulations and the merchandising of eggs is con- trolled and .upervised from- pro- ducer to consumer. The eggs available in the retail stores of Canada to -clay are a die. timely different product from those which were commonly offered for sane fifteen to twenty years ago, Improved production methods, better handling and quicker market- ing all leave been instrumental In bringing about this improvement. 01 greeteet trignidcance, however, has hem a system of egg grading which for year; Naas required that the pure a.e and sale of all egge in Canada he candticteed ou a basis .of quality graders. All eggs' .sold in Canadian retail stores etre required to be graded anti identified with the grade name. There are three main quality grades -Grade A, Grade 13, Grade C. Grade A c'gga' are sold in three weights. 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