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The Brussels Post, 1939-4-19, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POT WEDNESDAY, AMR, 19th, 1939 ENTITLED INFIDELITY By Stella Scott "Only because he thinks it will be tIIor nap happiness" she answered'• And once again she recalled the 'Words spoken in the long ago ---9 'quant you to believe always that your bapPiueeis ie close to mY heart," 1She did believe It, By her own love she gauged the Strength of hie. "Bath he's started the proceed- inga," Bob wenit on. "He's gone to Paris to arrange it all," "Pauls!" Sally echoed, ',That is se much information to the good, Bob, will you heap are?" ,'I doant see how I can," he re- joined. "Since you knew I married Colin you've been thinking bitter tl'ings ICC me, haven't you?' tit suppose I have; he adanatted. n der 'easy those bitter thoughts have made a difference to your feel- ings for me" she went on. "If you found some other girl who'd look ad'tea- your home for yon and all that, you wouldn't mind so very match about me, would you?" He hesitatea, u.nakeiling to admit he had thought more than once of rewarding Miss. Trevetter'e devo- tion, "Be honest with yourself, Bob. 1 am not essential to your happiness, lam I?" It was strange Colin's argument than any girl who was good to him would satiety Bob should come :ba•dk to her now. "You've had a, rotten time, 1 know," ebe 'Went on hwriediy "While I've been in Paradise you've been suffering. I don't want to make things worse for you, to buy my happiness at the expense of yours, and I haven't forgotten how you gave me good times when good times were rare. Because of that I'd hate to feel I was epoiling thing for you. But if you had -money, a home of your own, and a .wife to look atter you, you'd be happy, wouldn't you?" Bob hesitated uncomfortably. '!1 don't see that you can expect me to answer a ;time:esteem like that 'IIs 11 too much to 403:1$8941 ,'e �I murmured wit.evily, "Don't you see usual you give me tbat assur- 'ante things can never be really right between Colin• and me?" 'elerat'e your affair," be answered harshly. "I see," sbe said disappointedly, "You don't care enrfficiently to wish for any bappinesa." "Almost as much as you cared for aline, when you lett me to die in a foreign land," he jerked out, "Safi that's not lair!" she cried, "If I'd known of your accidera 1 have gone to you. It was because I thought of your happiness rather than my own I tried so hard to keep faith with yiu. If I had loved you a little less, or a little more, it would have been easier. But if Colin sets me free a hundred times I shall never marry you, Bob. Please dont think that." Bob was silent, his better nature fighting against the :mean desire that Sally should be punished for wrong he felt she had dons rim. He had been treated shabbily by Fate, it wast no wonder he felt bitter, but at beart he was a decent fellow, with sense enough to realise that getting his. own. back on Sally wouil not further ris happiness. "How do you think I can help :yeti?" At last he 'broke the —itr.e. "By telling me where Colin is," she answered. "By writing to him and explaining that I'm not essen- tial to your happiness. Can yon do that for mer" Atter another pause Bob answer, ed. ''Yes, I will." It was strange how ■svbh Rat - hearted he felt atter that. Before they parted he told. her about Mire Trevvetder, ,told her too how generous Colin had been and that through his influence he was getting a job with a 'larger salary than he had ever hoped to earn. 'So you will be able to have a really comfortable home," said Sally, with sparkling eyes. "Andto buy all those things we used to talk about." "Yes," 'he admitted, He began to talk about the house he meant to have, and satisfied Sally once and for all that Colin had been right --provided Bob had a home of his own, and children, he would be happy with, any woman who was good to hiuzr. • • • Sally hid thought that with Colin's address and Bob's letter in her pocket, her troubles would be over, bust she was. reckoning with- out Colin and hie determination. So eonrvinlced was he that only by giv- ing iving her her freedom could he make amends, and so pumotilious• was he in, keeping bis promise given to Bob that be, avoided her every effort to see himr. For one thing, he was afraid to trust himself if he should see her he did not even trust himself to read, her letter. It was such a hard thing he bad brought himself to do, like tearing Luis heart out of his body, that be bad to conserve every ounce of strength, Only the spirits of the night knew ho whe suffered. Only by repeat- edly reminding himself it was, for Sally's happiness toted he have gone through, with it. Meannrhiie he ,had, to give all his time and thought to the business of arranging the divorce, The solici- tors advised him, that "a woman in the case" was the simplest way, MACHINERY HAS STRAIGHTENED UP THIS SHAPE Millet, the French artist, son of a farmer and himself a farm laborer, has in his universally known pictures of—The Gleaners, The Man with the Hoe; etc., left a very graphic record of farming methods and their influence on farm workers of a century ago. Edwin Markham, the American poet, viewing The Man with the Hoe, interprets it to us with dramatic force in his poem of the same name when he says, Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw; Whose the hand that slanted back this brow; Whose breath blew out the light within this brain. Ringing out the challenge, he asks—"Is this the thing the Lord, God made and gave dominion over land and sed', and calls on "Masters, Lords and Rulers of all lands to straighten up this shape". But each step in this great emancipation has come by the introduction of some new labor-saving machine. Thus by liberating man from back -breaking, brain - deadening toil, modern machinery has done more than all the masters, lords and rulers of all lands to straighten up this shape. For ninety years now Massey -Harris has played a conspicuous part in designing and making such labor-saving machines and in the development of power and power equipment for farm operations; r MASSEY-HARRIS COMPANY LIMITED MAKERS OF MODERN FARM MACHINERY and in, Paris, he could easily enough arrange with, a lady tor the oc- casion. . The hardest 'moment of all eame when. he knew Sally was- lo Paris. To deny himself the heaven of see- ing her lust once again had, needed all his strength of 'purpose, But it would soon be over now. That night at twelve o'clock the lady would appear, They would spend perfectly innocent hours' to- gether, and at nine o'clock the fol- lowing morning the said lady would depart, and Sally would eeve groans• fur divorce. Stupidly, he forgot to ask whetla er the lady would, be French or English, but to be on the safe side he laid in a supply of English as weal as Frenbh magazines for her entertainment. Then, lighting his pipe, he prepared' to wait and dream of Sally. Physically and mentally played out, he must have fallen asleep, for when he was aroused by the tapping on the door, he did not quite know where he was. He had been actual- ly dreaming that he was hack in England with Sally in their home on Richmond Hill. "Come in." he furmured, 'his gaze wandering round the room. The door opened and the myster- ious lady entered. She 'wore such a large hat and such a high collar very little of her face could' be seent but s1e stood near the door shyly, and the atti- tude brought bacon memories of a morning far away when a girl clerk bad stood in just such an attitude, too frightened to do more than smile, and with that smile create the world aneiw for Colin. Davidson. With a swift movement he sprang to her side, seized the large hat, flung aside the high collar, and there stood Sally, smiling very much, as she mailed on that morning that seemed, so very far away, "'Dont be cross, Colin," she whis- pered, "This seemed the onay way of 'getting you to wee me, so I had to take it. I had to tell you that I love you, and I don't want you to set me free." He .stared, afraid: to believe his own eyes—his own ears, "I dont understand," he murmur- ed. "You should not find it ditYlcult," she answered him, "I never thought you would doubt my love•" 'But he was the man of your choice," he reminded her. "When he came back you were ready to sacrifice everything to go to ;him—" "No, no, Colin," she broke in, "He bad 'threatened you—I was ,fright- eoed, for your safety, and my only thought was to get him out of the house before you returned. You should have known it was of you I was thinking. "I could not believe your thoughts of me would. be anything but bitter when you knew how badly""I'd be- haved', Oh, Sally, Sallee love for you has glveru me the most beautiful moments in my life, but it made a scoundrel of me—do you realise that?" He still stood a little distance apart from ren, Since (Ringing aside her bat and, coat he had not permitted himself to touch her. With a lovely movement she put her hands on his smoulders, ' "I love you, 'Colin," she whisper- ed. "Won't you take me to your arms; for only there any I truly happy?" "Oh, my dear, cam you forgive me," he cried', "How can I forgive when' I did not blame?" she .smiled. "And how could 1 blaane you for loving me too well?" Her mouth wsrs close to his, A moment later her quevering lips were crushed to his, her heart was beating rappily agalntet his, heart, 'Sty safe—mit' most precious wife:" Colin whispered. "Mine— for ever•" THE END, "I've been sleeping like ,a log." "You wood:" Doctor (to ,pattont)—.It's nothing to worr yabout—Just a little boll on the back of the neck, But you must keep your eye pn It." ."Do mistakes of your past ever keep you awake nights?" "Not any more. I had my We- t phone disconnected," ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES ,From BRUSSELS APRIL 21 & 22 To TORONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderieh, Guelph, Hamilton, London, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, St. Mary's, Sarnia, Stratford, Strathroy, Woodstock. To Stations Oshawa and Beat to Cornwall inclusive, Uxbrdige, Lindsay, Peterboro, Campbell(ford, Newmarket cohingwood, Meaford, Midland, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Capreol and West to Beardmore. .4101111. SEE HANDBILLS FOR COMPLETE LIST OF DESTINATIONS. Fara. Return Lenin, Train information. Ticked, eonsrk nearest Agent. See ligndbldr, CANADIAN NATIONAL Citizens May Now Sit ,On Court Of Revision A change has been made in the Municitfaa Act governing appoint_ meats to the Court of Revision, In past years, appointments were made by the Council, and perhaps appoint- ed bad ,tea be members of the Conned!. Under- the new plan the Council can appoint citizens to aid on this court, and! make the board entirely citizens, members of the Council, or divide it up as they see fit. This change will present a municipal council with an opportun" Ity, of giving more citizens. a hand in ,marndctpal management and should tend to create more interest in the activities of the municipal. ity. —Tara Leader - Goderich Court Remands Woman On Murder Charge Psychiatrists to Make Report on Mental Condition of :Miss Catharine .Fetzgerald Godericli, April 115, Mlss Cayha- :nine Fitzpatrick, of Win'gham, charged with the ,murder of her brother, ANierit Fitzpatrick, was re- m0ndedi for a week on Thursday, pending the ¢report of the psychiat- rists, Jailed ,For Two Months RVilliam WeL4h` skdey-year.old Exeter man, charged with causing grievous bodily harm upon tine per- son. of Mrs. Millie Walker, 50, his etnrpoyer, was given, two menthe in jai. Milton, Love, Hemsall dabtle buy- er, charged with issuing a worth- less, cheque for $103 to Earnest Townsend, Goderich Towntbdp, la payment forcattle, was given, sus,- pendecL sentence on milking restitu- tion, and payment of court coats. Two transients arrested In Cain ton, •charged with vagrancy, were sentenced bo three days+ imprison,. ment, They were begging (from door to door, Several 'tradilo •caeelg charged' with failing to carry 1939 markers on their care or of failing to pro - dime or possess 1939 driven' licenses, were settled out of court Two offenders 'pleaded guliaty and fines' were impose. Bond Salesman Remanded Arnold ,Bennett, London bond salesman, was remanded for a week. The charge reads: "That you did in November, 1938, obtain dram Mra, Blizabetb, Dickson', Sea - forth, the sum at $440 by false pre- tenses, alleging that a *500 bond of the London, Gospel Centre, Ince was good and valid and would re- turn six per cent, interest per an= num.,' `t5 MA!,8 AGO People ,.••d to walk* ,.h•s•elve• beer d be cholane( trove thin house tope. It 'On Vied that In -da,' sem word 1►ebaier 1yae• to •pr•u before • ee sudeolon le te.eembe. • MOM-.A.DA7r IAo bWnes men mese ore WarLAde. • • Fi What Is A 'Boy? 'A pensee who la going to care/. on ,what you have started. He is to sit right where you are sitting and attend to things which you think so important, when you are gone. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they 81111 be carried out depends upon him. Even, if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to man- age then, He will take your' seat .in, Parliament, assume control of your 'Cities, States and Empires. • He ie going to move in. and take over your Churches, Scbools, Uni- versities, Corporations, Councils and Prisons. All your work is go- ing to be judged and praised and conemned by hem. The future and dlestiny of humaaniby are in his hands, so it might be as well to pay ardor a little attention now." —Anonymous HAROLD W. LOVE Ethel, Ont. — Phone 22-B General Insurance Agent FL.MFR R RFi I R A Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. / Phone 20X • Brussels, On' James Taylor Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. 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