The Brussels Post, 1939-1-11, Page 2ME BRUSSELS.. POST
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TOURNAMENT
By Olive Wadsley
She stopped, aware of her insinu-
ation,
Pansie laughed softly and in the
darkness, Laura did not see the
look that came into the blue eyes.
"Never Inind;' dear Mrs. Still,
'wood," slue said gently, "Clive Is a
clever boy and he will net fail, if
Mr, Stillhvood give him a chance t 1
Trove his worth."
"You sound as th::agh you
in hien yourself, Pansie,"
Laura, in surprise. "You don't
know 'him really, do you?"
"Oh, no," said the girl, shaking
back her soft curls. "But I know
your husband. Forgive me for
sounding bold -;but I mean, I am
sure your husband is such a fine
judge of character he would not
help anyone along who was without
value."
"Fate value, you mean?" said.
Laura, ct)uscious of a sense of ail•
tation.
She wished both their guests at
the bottom of the sea, though She
was far from being harsh -natured
"Well, that is a very valuable
asset," said Pansie. "Ah, here they
come.,,
"Standing there, with the moon
shining on your hair, Miss O'Con•
nor, you look like a very beautiful
moonfairY,' said Clive Marlow ai he
and Toby joined them.
Toby gazed at the girl swiftly.
He hoped she woula not fail for
the handsome but obviously penni-
less boy he had sponsored! That
would: be a terrible calamity until
one or other of them had made a
way in the world. Very likely they
would spoil each other.
She looked enchantingly beauti-
ful, her masses of hair with the got- Her grey eyes regarded him
den light on their burnished waves. ]p but be was undaunted and
Ant a queer emotion stirred at laughed.
Toby's susceptible heart. 'd hope not, since I should be in -
"I wish I were a moon -fairy;" chided," he remarked. "I should
sighed Pansie, plaintively . "I could not like to feel you were laughing
have everything I wanted." at me or my art, though, no doubt,
"What do you want?" asked Mar- i seem a very poor specimen in
low, and to Toby's watching eyes , your eyes."
peened toedge nearer to the girl, "I have not judged you," said
Pansie took no notice, however, : Laura. "And as for Art, I know
'but turned to Toby, and her voice nothing about it."
tell to a low note, "That is a remark the Mona Lisa
Stillwood knows," she said, would have made!" declared Mar -
want fame." goy, "Elusive as a moth lying in a
Lura made a little movement of : garden at night."
impatience. Her words were tinged
sharpness when she said—
Laura laughed from sheer ems -
with
"That is not everything to You, is i Aeration, Unlike most girl sshe ltd
it?" not feel charmed or intrigued by
"The Alpha and the Omega of such fanciful Conversation, Only
my world,' said the girl, 1 ane man was allowed to talk non -
"Mr. and Mrs. Millwood are the
world's best lovers," said Panda
softly, '13 watch them and try t0
inta,glne myself similarly Iplaeed,
Personally I don't think I should be
a success as a wife,"
Toby clsap;:ed his heads.
"One should try everything once,'
advised .tilarlrpw, and Ins eyes rest -
On Laura Stiilwood, "I would
love to paint you as the modern
Mina Lisa, Mrs. Stiliyood"
"A:.n I so—expressionless?" ask-
ed Gaura, and somehow she found
Marlow by her side, while Toll',
leaning an the Old sundial tallied
Mime to Pansie,
and the pocket of a dlown,and-Out
artist," he whispered, "If Life had
been hind --ail"
For a moment Laura did not re -
Ply, She was listening to her has -
band and wondering why Pansie
must keep on crying out in her
clear young voice, ''Really you are
too funny. I have never met city
one like you "
'Why did Toby want to waste his
time making the girl laugh?' Laura
thought, and knew she was jealous
for the first time in her life.
Then her pride and common-
sense came to the fore and she said
"It is rather too damp to sit here
longer, I think."
Now and again Laura heard "re. "Listen, one .of Chapin's Nocturu-
take" and "camera sense" and "on es," said Clive, as the distant
location" and then heard them men- violinist started again. "How sari,
tion the scenario of Goldilocks and 1 and yet how beautiful. Like a
meantime she tried to be polite to love -story with an utibappy ending.'
Marlow. "The wrong love -story, perhaps?"
suggested Pansie, who had joined
It was pleasant in the dewy
them and had overheard Marlow's
garden. Toby hrd left the electric vast remark,
radio on and the strains of a violin
solo relayed from some seaside
holiday resort came out on the night
air from the drawing -room windows.
Long cane chairs were nearby
and into one Laura sank, her chin
resting in her hands.
"Is the Mona Lisa expressionless 'Pansie raised her darkened lashes
to your idea,/ asked Marlow, re- and let her eyes rest on the man's
(erring to the famous picture of the flushed face fora full two seconds.
woman with the elusive smile and
unnameable charm,
I
"Pell me what her expression
means?' said Laura for the sake of
saying something.
"I think she is laughing
sleeve at the world," said
repeating someone else's
as usual with him
CHAPTIR1 TV,
Danger Zone.
"Toby, you are too good for worts
up ner
Marlow,
opinion,
cold -
even
And Laura wondered at such
force emanating from one whose
outlook had been so terribly cramp-
ed and =towed.
"And what about love?" asked
young Marlow.
"Rubbish," said Toby, and Laura
bit her lip.
"Yon believe that?" she asked
and was angry with herself for ber
perturbation.
"Except in my own case," Toby
answered.
sen: a to her and he was making
the girl with golden hair laugh like
a silvery fountain!
".Are you always so poetic, Mr.
Marlow" she asked and pertain,:
the fact she was faintly unhappy
joat then, lent a softness to her
voice.
Only a man of Clive Marlow's
nature would have dared to follow
it up, and he leant *Ter her chair -
back.
"That is my curse --a poet's 80111
PICOBAC
PIPE
TOLIACCO
It:11 11 mu D C('t)i SMOKE
said, "Bat it is a shame to spoil
the kiddie's pleasure because we
don't want to go."
"1 don't want to go," said Laura,
quietly. "You do, don't you?"
"I wCuldn't mind an evening's
dancing for a change," said Toby.
"But Ian not going if you can't
Laura."
',Then—perhaps 1'11 go," said
Laura, "I don't want to be a spnl'-
sport. I like dancing but I am not
crazy about it, However, 1'11 ga,
Toby', if it is only to bring you
workers home before dawn."
"Oh, I shall stay until sun-nl,'.
laughed Pansie.
"The rehearsal Cali is for Len
o'eloek sharp," warned Laura.
don't want to go worn out, do you:"
".Me?" Pansie flung back her
head and laughed. "It would take
Then the curtains came down and
they were veiled, but Toby Still -
wood had been stirred oddly, yet
not without a sense of fear under-
lying that excitement which Pansia
O`Ctmnor'seyes sent thnpmgh him.
Just now be had earned ber grati-
tude by offering to motor her to an
all-night party held at a neighbour-
ing bungalow.
•Pansie had been anxious to go
since they all had been invited—the
people were film fans and well to
do, and thought it a "fearful thrill'
to have real "movie" people to their
home.
Laura did not care for the Lan -
casters, but Toby bad promised to
go in a moment of absentminded-
ness and Pansie had danced. round
the room with joy when she know.
The rehearsals for Toby's film
were to begin the next day early
but she did not care.
"'Oh, tip, go to a real dance! .11
will be heaven!" she said.
And Laura asked her when site
had managed to go to one in New-
castle,
"Only once, when I stole out
when the Higgins were snoring in
bed!" she told her, "1 climbed
down a drain -pipe and arrived with
my frock torn down the hack, but I
danced until daybreak and the fam-
ily never knew! But this will be
different, What shall I wear?"
So Laura talked frocks and Toby
feeling that Laura, would be angry
if he went suggested taking and
calling liar Pansie, and pleading his
wiles indisvosition as an excuse
for their absence.
"I'll say you've got hay -fever," he
Sir Edward Beatty BecomekFreeman of Cranbrook
RIBMWAW
When. sir Edward Beatty,
. Cd.B,E., K,C., MD., chair-
man, and president of the Cana-
dian ,lyaeific Railway1 attended
Craaibrook's'I?10neer iteunion, Fri-
day, September 9, he received
the freedom of the city and heard
himself extolled ea an outstand-
ing Canadian and head of the
company which -40 years ago
forged the Crowe' Nest Pass link
of its great railway system into
the rich Kootenay country. Sir
Edward Is seen receiving a silver
tray commelnorating the occasion,
from Mayor T. M. Roberts, On
Sir Edward's left is Judge G. FL
Thompson who swore him in as a
freeman of " the bustling East
Kootenay city, R.oSs R. McMaster,
of Montreal, director of the Cana-
dian Paolfic Railway, is at the ex-
treme left of the picture. Thio, the
third ceremony of its kind in.wbleh
Sir Edward has participated, Saint
John and 'Vancouver having pre -
'family conferred the freedom of
their cities, was a joint tribute
Ye Sir Edward and to the pioneera
of the road, many of whom were
present to sea the brilliant Core-
mony'and to hear their own work
of four iecadoo ago praised, •
more. than a dance to kill little ma"
So they went to the Lancasters'
big bungalow some miles or two dis-
tant and Toby felt very proud of
the two lovely women whose• escort
he was.
Laura looked exceptionally beau
tiful in a long frock of death white
lace with her dark hair coiled round
her ears and her grey eyes shining
with°a bright light.
Something else had made Laura
haand
happy the last few weeks, the
hope that one day she might be-
come a mother, had been ardly
acknowledged to herself.
She did not want to Lance she
only wanted to sit still and ream.
Pansie, a vital, vibrant b tterfly
in green taffeta with puff leeves
and a fichu of organdie, loo es' so by another player. A penalty shot
entranoingly girlish that Laura. will be awarded 18 the goalie holds
watching her dance with Tob , smil- the puck more than three seconds.
ed in admiration. drops it into his pads, or tosses it
Oh, what did it matter abo t her?
Let her have her dances and her
hour of passing joy; let her flicker
across the screen for a brief me of
popularity. Those other ds and
nights and hours of happine s be.
longed to her, Toby's, wife and. in
the, future—
"I suppose this• is a poor sort of
affair after some od the do'
s you
flan folk indulge in," ch rped a
voice at her side and she a w the
daughter of her hostess, tanding
beside her. "We all know what
you Bohemian people ar But
you must enjoy yourself, and
mother said—"'
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Laura "fly husband is ,tired after tan, 11M11day at Cargill.
wanking all day, anti I am a poor
dancer--"
".Mother believes in entertaining,'
prattled on the girl. "She always
claimed that any dad would never
have got anywhere without her hav-
ing folks to dinner and dances and
so on, A man must get about and
meet people."
"I suppose so,' said Laura vague-
ly.
Then the girl drifted awaY, and
she stood thinking over her idle
remarks.
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agreed on the alterations and now
every rink in the country is to hav"
its blue line one foot wide and 1
paint the goal posts and all lines
except zones In red.
The wider blue linea and one
other item are designed to out down
ofteide, A. player will not be
considered offside unless his skates
are over :the blue line edge nearest
the goal. That means he may
reach over the line with his stick
for the puck so long as his akate3
do not cross before be touches the
rubber,
A minor penalty will be imposed
on any player except the goal tend-
er who holds the puek against the
boards unless he is being checked
into the crowd. These things form-
erly called for a painful whistle
blast and face ok. Now they cowry
under the head of "stalling" and
so should occur less often.
An offside will be called when the
defending team ices the puck from
its area and the rubber crosses the
penalty shot lire in the other teams
area. Formerly the puck had only
to cross the far blue line to be call-
ed "iced," The referee, however,
will not call the play until he is sure
a goal cannot be scored on an iced
shot.
oby was whirling around the
floor in a state of sheer joy, she
noted, and for the .first time in her
married life she began to wonder
if she was acting right in living at
(home so. quietly.
Perhaps -- afterwards — she.
would talk it over with Toby and
matte a change,
Then her own partner came for
her, she realised that Toby was dis-
anpearing with Panicle towards the
refreshment -booth.
.She /lancet the next dance with
such indifference that the man she
was dancing with wondered if she
were ill,
He voted .her the dullest wife pas -
stifle for such a jolly sport as Toby
Stiliwood.
Then she saw Toby coining to llud
her and turned to him with a slow
smile,
"Alii right?', she asked, and he
nodded, his face flushed with tie
unusual exertion,
"Rather! But I'm deucedly out
of practice, I must have almost
crippled poor little Pansie, but she
Is a wonderful dancer. She saved
1ne from about a Ihundr_ed collas
Ione."
TO BE OONTINUED.
New Hockey Rules
Allow Wider
Blue Lines
The National Hockey League rule
changers have popped up with a
number of new ones,, which. are stip-
posed to liven rip the contest,
The Canadian Hockey /immolation
January 18 — Walkerton at Mild
vay, Formosa at Cargill,
January 23 — Walkerton et For-
mosa, Cargill at Mildmay.
January 27 — Cargill at Walker -
ten, Mildmay at Formosa.
Group No. 2
January 13�Fordwich at Clifford
January 18—Clifford at Fordwich
January 20—Fordmrich at Clifford
Group No. 3
January 19—Wroxeter at Bruseala
January. 2a --,Brussels at Wroxeter
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end of March, 1939, the drivers'
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this month. This is not correct,
states the Dundalk Herald, accord-
ing to notice received rom the
Department of Highways by the
local issuer, The motor. 11001180
plates and the drivers' permits are
110131 good until the 31st of March,
1939,
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