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The Brussels Post, 1939-1-18, Page 2BRUSSELS POST WEDNESDAY, JAN, X8tIi, 3933 ENTITLED TOURNAMENT By Olive Wadsley "She he a remarkable person alto- bether," said Laura, "Considetiha how she was brought up she 'las ex- ceptional talents." At that moment the girl went past with a man, and the Took of obvious admiration lu bis face was not lost upon either the husband or the wife, while Pansies laughing eyes reflected the joy she telt in the night's gaiety. Mr. and tire. Lant,aster were wealty and s i no expense in making their guests enjoy themselves, "Bit of a change this from New- castle and the Higgins family I should think." remarked Toile. "She fits in easily," said Latta, and her lips seemed to curve ueubt- full Toby glanced at her swiftly. "Tau sound .eeeved. Are yon tired, darling." ,"1 have a headache," said Laura "Here comes your partner, Major Fleming. He told me be had secur• ed you for the next. He said you reminded bim of his Victorian aunts when yon danced—so easily and igraeetnlly," "Haw exciting"' said Laura, and she wondered If she were Victorian in her ways and manners. "Don't overdo It, now," sand Toby, as he sidled away with a comically frightened look . "That old buffer drives me mad with his tales of the good old days when Vic- toria was on the throne!" ' For the rest of the night Laura saw Toby dance with Pansie, and she saw, too, that her husband was gradually becoming merrier as the heat of the room and the good wine affected him. Toby was not given to excesses of any kind, but he did like enjoying himself, and he could not take mach are getting rather wild here. and 1, Now he was almost boisterous, and once when she tried to eatcb his eyes and signal the time to him he grinned somewhat foolishly and danced on. A: three o'clock Laura decided to got definitely. She found Toby in the refeesh- aient room with Pansie and a gang of gay young men and women, and managed to draw him aside. 'It Is time we made a move. dear.' she said quietly. "Think of to- morrow and Pansie with her brat rebearsal of Goldf—" "Oh, li's all right, I wish you wouldn't worry, Laura!" He waved 1 Ins band airily. "'We're having a good time, aren't we, Pansie?" And to her added anaoyanc.'' be dry .v tete girl into the converzatinn. And Pansie, also flushed, and not only with dancing, Laura felt sure, I _ -+1 them with a- smile, "Yes, we're having a wonderful arat if you are tired or-- er fed up, why nee go on home. Mrs. { Stillwood? We can walk back witu rni •k. the " ' Lau a bit her UP. The girl was l so young and carried away by her new-found pleasures it se timed lscarcely worth whale being angry 1 t with her. "I will wait all the same," said Laura. "But you are both fool's,: to stav so late considering—" 'Considering my grandmother!" burst out Tcvy, with real rudeness for him, and Laura paled. This was not her Toby and she could bare eshaken him. "I am not goln; home like a schoolboy when you say so, Laura. .Pansie and I are going • to stay until the—" What Toby was going to say was never finished for with a move- ment of annoyance, Laura turned aside. "I shall go home," she said in a tow tone. She was hurt and dis- gusted :hat Toby should behave so badly before Pansie, who was his protige_ He should have ]mown better than to give way to the girl's fool- ishrees. she thought, and was aware that everyone near them was secret- ly amused at wee, '"ust have seem- ed a domestte 'wrangle. She forced a smile to her lips. however, and laid a hand on Pan- sie's shoulder. "Don't stay too Tong, will you?" she asked. 'In fact, it would please me if yon came away now. Things drink unless It agected him unduly. will get wilder if I am any judge. We shouldn't have come." "Oh. but I love it! And Mr.Ye:'— Toby will be with me!" pouted Pansie like an overtired, over- excited child at a Brat party. And Laura remembering all that she had confided in her about her early home life, finally left her with the last word of warning to Toby to look alter her. Perhaps that was Laura's first really foolish action, but the noisy throng and heated rooms had got on her nerve_ and she felt if she 'lld not get sway luto the peace of her own hcme she would either faint or se; eam. So she drove home and was too tired. mentally and physically, to bother as to how Toby or p,ensie would get back—walk, she presum- ed, or be given a lift by some other guest. She lay down on her bed, glad to relax. When she did rouse herself it was to hear the hall clock chiming six. She sat n;_, and realised the dancers bad not yet returned. It was too bad for them, she re fleeted angrily, and especially of Toby. And her anger would have been doubly increased could she have seen her husband and Pansie com- ing home together in the early summer dawning—hand in hand! CHAPTER V. Another Love. "Chen -twill you change your mind about letting me paint you? You know I am longing to -" "I shall not change my mind, Mr. Marlow." Laura looked up from her task of arranging some late roses in Te,by's favourite Chinese bowl, and her grey eyes were unsmiling. Clive Marlew's continual visits to Riverview annoyed her. He was no good as either an actor or an artist and did not seem able to carry oat any of the work given bim to do at the studios, But Toby, as usual, allowed him to claim his sympathy, and excused bim with the remark that it was worse to be a real failure than a real genius- whom nobody wanted. A real out and out failure, be argued, could never hope for recog- nition, ecognition, while a genius— Well, one could never tell what might happen round the corner, SS "poor Clive" was allowed to come to Riverview pretty often. and Toby had airily suggested his ;hav- ing a shot' at painting Laura under the labornum tree. But Laura preferred not. "You are terribly unkind," said -Marlow, as Laurarefused agate. Music of Many Races Canadian Mosaic, illustrated Lr with the musle of the many races settled in Caleele, will be the subject of a series of ten broadcasts which will be produced by 3. Murray Gibbon, general pub- licity agent, Canadian Pacific Beltway for the network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion on Sundays, commencing January 8. Frances James, one of Canada's leading sopranos, will be the soloist interpreting songs ap:clally .Written on Canadian theta?* to tunes which have been brought to this country by the races in question—French, Soots, English, Ir!sh, Welsh, Scandina- vian, German, ls'krainlan, Polish, Czecho-Slovak, Finnish, etc, The Toronto Conservatory String Quartette tinder the leadership of Elie Spivak will contribute instru- mental music by the outstanding composers of the races in ques- tion. The Idea of this series of broad- casts is to create a better under- standing of the contribution made to Canadian culture by the earl= nus racial groups in Canada, and may be considered as an interest- ing sequence to the Folk Song Festivals organized at various points in Canada some years ago by the company. The time for the broadcast 'will be 4.30 to 8.00, ES,T, 330-8.00, A.S.T., 6.30-7.00 C.S.T., 6.30-6.00 Mountain Time and 4.30-5.00 The layout show Mr. Gibbon, Miss James, and Elie Spivak in rehearsal, and insert are Leo Smith, Harold Stzmberg, Elle Stole vak and Cecil Figeiaky membere Of the Toronto Conservator) String Quartette, " Icould make myself famous if I painted you," -"I am sor-y I cannot give you the chance," said Laura coldly. She was out of sorts lately, and, since the night of the dance Tony had sulked and refused to thing his actions unwise. °Faintly Laura wondered if the rebellicue natute of pleasure -roving Pansie had helped to make ber hus- band so esenteel of her mild ai- monitions, Pansie was leaving Riverview that week, for certain scerme of Goldilerk were to be taken in Paris and tbe company were going over to France for a matter of ten days Since Tcby was not aceompauy- ing them she was hoping she would be able to adjust mattes srtlsfac- torily with him, since they baa never quarrelled before. Meantime Clive Marlow w,uld have to be sbawn gently but firmly that she had no time for his re- proachful speeches. It was lunch time and she expect - e] Toby home, as he had little to do at the studios just now as tbe filming of his story was going re- Pansie was proving a good little artist, easily produced and swear of disposition, an fact, her gentleness was surprising Laura, who had rather expeeted her to lose ber head. There had been no hitches and Toby sbouls hare been' very happy but he chose to sulk—and Toby sulky was not a pleasant person. "I have been praying for you to change your mind all along, and when your husband said he would like me to make a picture of you under the lagurnum tree—" "I wonder he did not suggest ;ny sitting on one of. the branches, wearing a sunbonnet and a gingham frock," laughed Laura, trying vain- ly to keep her temper, "I am not cut out for rustic maiden parts" "Like Pansie O'Connor ' 'suggest. ed Marlow. And in spite of herself Iaura flushed. How that girl came into everything! "Well, hardly, We are not the same type," she said dryly, "Fou don't really admire her, do you?" The heavy -lidded blue eyes met hers suddenly, and she -mew theft owtiikr was reading her with un- canny clearness. For lately she had become jealous of Pansie— jealous of her vivacity and her power to take Toby ayay, For that was what it was amounting to. Not that she thought Toby was exactly fascinated by Pansle, but their business association made a certain intimacy possible, and they were sharing a joint pleasure and excite- ment in the production of the filo;. Of course she — Laura—could have taken a more active interest in the production, but she shrank from pushing herself forward since Pansie monopolised the whole of the company attention from the crowd to the famous West -End ac- tor who had been especially et/gat- ed to the part of the 'Bear. All eyes were focused on Pansie b'Connor, and this time it seemed Toby Stillwood had not made a mis- take. The girl te-as well on the way to becoming a very good actress, and her Dresden china -like prettiness made her the subject of many newspaper paragraphs. Laura, staring at herself in the mirror, seeing a thinner face ard a shadow under her grey eyes, a bitter twist to her lips, wondered— and woudered-ard yet-- Ob, W5,1 absurd! Pansie and Toby were bushiest friends that was all! Now Marlow's words woke her elumherina resentment and she fell silent, afraid to betray herself to this objectionable young man, "I am not surprised in a say," went on Marlow quietly, "I admire her, l,ut I think she is dangerous. Granted adorably lovely, and any man could fall in love with her," "Any man?" Laura dropped a rose, as the thorn pricked the flesh, laughed. "Then why don't you worship at her shrine, and worry and fret and fume to paint her, as--+— "Delilah—up to date!" "Delilah! What nonsense! 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"I hoped you would allow me to stand where a friend should stand when he sees the woman he loves' Amazement mingled with very real anger flashed in Laura's eyes as she realised what the impertin- ent stranger had said to her—to her, Toby's wife, "I can't help it—I love you," per- sisted :Marlow ,and suddenly giasp- e dher hands, "I am like a beggar envying the ling his crown—like a children prying for the moon. 011, yes, I am all these things, and an out and out rotter for daring to speak my thoughts—" t, "Let go my hands! Let them go at once, do you bear " Laura was fuming with auger, "My husband will be home any moment=" "No, ye won't!" Marlow released Laura's hands, but his voice and face betrayed a rising passion still, "He is too busy—elsewhere, as I happen to know. That is why I called to -day. He has decided to lunch at the studio—" "Ile is coming home to -day. He told me so. We are going out to dinner—" At that moment the maid entered and glanced interrogatively at TIME MARCHES ON Recently in cleaning up an old attic, a bundle of newspapers was found, brown 'with age. Amongst them was a cots of JulyulO 1-Buffalo tuh.. 1 901, in which llustrated under the caption Some Toronto Gossip" an interesting article appears. It is headed "Tent Hospitals. for Con- sumption Patients", and pis evidently a press despatch from Toronto, reading - 3n a very short time a tent hospital for the treatment of consumption patients will be established". ICoes on to state that the selection of a site was causing much difficulty; that the proposal of a consumption hospital came from half a dozen City physicians, some of whom were willing to donate their services free Charge because of the teed ghhasoplate far those suffering from the White Plague, without travelling far from Toronto. With the approval of the then Pro- ducts! Medical Ofticer of Health. Dr. Bryce, it was proposed to have nearly a dozen tents, some for cooking, others for sleeping. and the first of such tents were ,o he borrowed from the :Militia De- partment. This proposal was made fust three years before the Toronto Hospital for Con- ntmptives was established and doubtless r•as instigated by a marked change In public opinion as to the curability of tuberculosis, forced by the success ittatned at the little hospital in Muskolta which had been erected by the National Sanitarium Association some eight years :Artier, the first hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis in Canada. Looking back to those early days when patients ass zits open housed - in 00150 shaclts, tending their own ares, helping with the preparationof food, carrying water from a central pump and other chores, ono is tempted to think that the afro was ilmost woase than the disease. What an evolution there hes been! Take. the Muskoka and Toronto Hos- Mpants for Consumptives and tete Queen ary hospital for Consumptive Ch then is models of present dayy sanatoria, with their great buildings scientiarally equip- ped and adequately staffed, where skilled medical and surgical treatment may be given. accompanied by ezpeet Iwaing car0, J Of Milne, Intel service 19 costly and these hospitals must have help In caring for the tuberculous poor, That Is why please send your gift: ttobNationalllSantu- tarlum Association, 223 College Street, Toronto, Laura, tot is almost two o'clock, ma'am - Shall I keep luncheon back for the master? It is spoiling, I'm afraid." "Is it so late?" said Laura dully. Toby had promised to be home by one.thinty at the latest, and bad rung through earlier in the morning to verify it. TO BE CONTINUED HAROLD W. LOVE Ethel, Ont. — Phone 22-8 General Insurance Agent JAMES TAYLOR Licensed Auctioneer for :be County of Huron. 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