The Brussels Post, 1941-9-17, Page 2Mischief in
he Making
ByCynthia Dare
lied she known bow they streak
ed clown, to Beeyth,by-the-Water,
most certainly she would have re-
fused to reonsider her, tor although
Tony urged caution, Janice took no
heed, but went careering through,
villages at the rate of .thirty miles
per hour.
The came In at the gates of the
new Hall to find that Eve MeredYth
had arrived already,
It seemed almost as though they
were at loggerheads, for Eve had a
spot of feverish colour in her
cheeks, and Aunt' Lavinia was look-
ing indignant.
She didn't seem to take a great
liking to Janice either.
Within a few minutes of each
other, the rest of the party arrived.
Waren they had all gone to their
rooms to change for dinner, Aunt
Lavinia hunted her nephew out.
She looked at him with eyes that,
were sharp and piercing. He was
looking haggard, and there were
shadows under his eyes. Her heart
ached ac she realised how lima his
arm hung, but she ignored it.
"I don't like your girl friends,"
she said slowly.
"Don't you like Janice?" said
Tony demurely.
"1 do not!" said, Aunt Lavintl
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sharply.
"Nor Eve Meredith? What hap-
pened about Five? You looked as
though you'd been hazing a real
set-to fight'
"She told me that she was deeply
In love with you, that you hadn't
progosed yet, but that you were go-
ing to, end he did hope I was going
to be kind, because she'd a vel y
loving nature and didn't care in tna
least for money. All she wanted
was to make you happy."
"My word. Eve is a good starterI
all right." said Tony, somewhatt
taken, aback, but amused • at the
girl's insolence. ,
"She won't be a good finisher, my
boy! You'll find when you get past
the winning post Eve will lag. Site's
no good to you whatsoever. I
dislike her thoroughly."
"You oan't positively dislike the
whole bunch I've brought down?"
"Liane Crawford's nothing but a
doll face with no brains behind. All
her dash means nothing," said Aunt
Lavinda, sweepingly. "Cleo Royce
wouldn't be faithful to one man
whatever happened. I don't admin;
your taste, Tony.' '
'Well, do you know, I rather
thought you wouldn't," he said mis-
ohievously.
'Why dd you bring them down?
"You asked me to bring down a
bunch of girls and Pve done it.
They're possibles."
"Impossibles1" she snorted. "2
tell you frankly, Tony, that if you
think you're going to get away with
any of those girls, you're mistaken.
At least, I ehall cut you off with a
stilling.."
"I rather thought yoo would, bat
aren't -you judging a little quickly
Honestly, Aunt Lavinia, they're not
as bad as they seem to be. They're
girls of the class In which I move.
Its not the world you and Uncle Os- !
weld used to move In, I grant you,
but then you see, your money has
made it possible for me to mix with
high -Mello ere."
'+High steppers. Low fivers, you
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French River and Devil's Gap Lure Visitors
mems]"
He laughed in suprerne,enjoynient
at this, and her face crinkled up
into an unwilling senile, pleased he
could take a joke.
"Really, darling, you aright give
them a bit of a eaanee, They're
all on the surface, There might be
sometating really decent and Atte
deep down."
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"Oh, Aunt Lavinia, they all love
"Don't you believe it" she snorted,Tony! said Tony, mischievously.
"Wall, T don't, but I Rang we "I den's see how they could help
ought to trY." 1t. Mut, Tony, I've got to had out
"Ftven+ then, is there any one of whether it's the real thing wit' any
them you'd marry '' she nuestioned of tem,"
him. ,Quite suddenly the wrinkled old
He was thoughtful for a moment, dace quivered, and Tony oaw that
thinking Of Janice -dazzling, laug[L•. tears were near.
"You know, I expect you'll laugh
at me, but your Unoie Oswald and I
made a love match, I know, to your
eyes, he was fat and portly and bald,
and there was nothing romantic
about either of us, but when lid was
young -and at that time he was only
an assistant behind, the counter of
the first shop to go under the name
of Smedley afterwards, I came in to
buy bacon for people where I was
nurwemaid. I don't often talk about
it, Tony, but we fell in lova with
each other, and all the way, as he
bought shop by shop, and added to
his chain, there was romance In it
for us. You're ashamed of the shop
and everything connected with it,
but we used to be proud of it in
_ those days."
,"Aunt Lavinia," said Tony, sudden-
ly serious. "I'ye never been asham-
ed of any of it. I've always been
grateful, „St's meant I've had lots
Of money always. I've always bad.
everything I've wanted, because
you've been generous, but Pre
never laughed.
'You're a good boy, Tony, and the
only thing that you've disappointed
me in is that you've not settled
down, but I gave you till you wore
twenty-five, and now it's time."
'+I've brought them all down for
you to Iook over, Aunt Lavinia,'
said Tony, with a grave expression.
„"I believe you're laughing at me
now, said Aunt Lavinia. "I don't
believe you love any of them. I
don't believe you mean to marry
any of them, not even this Janice
creature.''
Tony refused to reply. As a matter
of fact, his aunt was very much
nearer the mark than She knew.
That evening Aunt Lavinia gave a
dance in the ballroom. It was a
rather wonderful place, with statues
and palms. Money had been spent
on it like water, and she was so
pathetically proud of it
Quite a lot Of tale county families
round about had, accepted invita-
tions. Tony and Janice, perfectly
matched, danced a great deal to.
gether. She was sweetness Personi-
fied
ersonified to Aunt Lavinia. Aunt Lavinia
didn't trust her. If only she could
be sure that any of them cared for
her nephew for himself; alone! If
only she could have been sure that
any. eared for any
+bored young lir
What love meant.
They danced until the stars paled,
and the -dawn crept rosy -fingered
over the dimpled sea. They went
to bed at feur, and rose at eleven,
next morning.
Nothing would de but they must
bathe.
"Tye had !ruts on the b
Aunt Lavinia,
tans took them down to
The purple heath was a
sea to the right oe them. Tony re.
membered it all so well, coming
down here when .Untie Oswald was ;
alive, Odd little shops were pert'.
ed right at the end of the cobbled
street that led to the sea. He didn't
remember seeing that shop before.
It must be n,ew,or was it that they
had turned the house window into. a
shop Pron,t?
Tanen he caught his breath, for
there came out from the shop a girl
dressed in green linen frock, and her
Bair was like a great golden mari-
gold, She didn't ,see him, so pre-
occupied, was she in what she was
doing. She walked across the road
to the very border of the purple
heater and stood and looked up at
the swinging sign, and then at the
Shop window.
There way something about her
that stirred, Tony profoundly, as he
tie never been stirred 171 all his
life, fdr there was something real
abtont this girl, something different
from the empty, Pleasure�loving
crowd that he had gathered round
Quite suddenly he remembered
the face -wiry, .eilrely It was little
Glohilloc�tb?
tug, radiant Janine, with her blue -
black hair and provocative eyes. A
brave girl, too! Taking risks --if that
was bravery, but Lavinia wouldn't
call it bravery.
"Which one is it, Tony." said
Aunt Lavinia, in a low, troubled
voice. "Is it the one that 7011 cause
down with?"
Tony nodded, looked thoughtful.
"If it's anyone, yes. Let's not talk
any about it, though. I'm glad
to see you Aunt Lavinia -you, don't
know how glad!"
"Pm glad to see you, boy,' she
said, in a low voice, still not touch-
ing the dangerous subject of hie.
arm.
Tony leaned against her. Ile
knew that the real reason she had
asked Grim to bring a bunch of
girls down wasn't so much the idea
of him marrying one, as to take
his mind off the things! that corn-
bletely put him out of his chosen
Profession. He was right. Lady
Smedley had done it exactly for
that, but she was a little alarmed at
what he had thought suitable. Was
she oldflashioned? iSlae supposed.
she was.
"'Tony," she said, suddenly. "I be•
lieve these girls are what I've heard
called gold-diggers!"
Tony laughed, uproariously at this.
"Now look here, Aunt Lavinia, you
don't know them well enough to
SW what they are. I'm sure Janice
Is a real sport."
"She's a gold-dgger!" said his
aunt, firmly. "I don't intend' that yon
shall be marred for our money. I
suppose they all know that you're
going to be my heir?"
"'I' mafraid I have let it out,"
said Tony, -who was enjoying
things.
'Well, they all -make a mistake
if they think they're going to marry
you unless' they love you."
Acottage on the shore of a
tree -lined lake with oppor-
tunities for fishing, boating,
swimming and other warm -
Weather recreation provides the
kind of summer holiday which Is
essentially Canadian. But life in
a cottage sometimes means a lot
of work owing to the lack of city
Conveniences, which is. the reason
for the great popularity of such
resorts as Dev51'a Gap and
French River' where Waiters live
1n cottages which are as welt ser-
tleed as hotel suites.
infohrmalityPle andifeaee with
the
empress's* implies, is the watch-
word at these two famous Cana.+
than Pacific reeorfe, Mother be
relieved of the Cooking, daughter
of the dish -washing sad sonny of
:Ef i )Via-riowiag, While father
dresses in his oldest and most
comfortable clothes to pursue his
own peculiar, ideas of summer
life.
There is a strong family re-
semblance between Devil's Gap
Lodge, near Kenora, and French
River Chalet Bungalow Camp, on
the Canadian ,Pacific Toronto -
Sudbury line. In a beautiful
section of lakes and forests, they
offer endless possibilltiee for re-
creation. No part of Canada had
better fishing, and there aro
facilities for tennis, golf and
similar sports. Great espauses of
water and wooded country make
exploring a pleasure, by canoe,
Motorboat, automobile, horse or
on foot.
tagee,lvself-contained ual ows or cote
and wally
furnisrunning waterve and electric
maid service.'
The central chalet or lodge !s the
nerve centre of the community
because it is there that visitors
have their meals and enjoy done
cing and other amusements is
the evenings.
Although there are amuse.
ments for every member of the
family, the most popular sport at
these resois rat is
ts
the fishing is soTgood.
Pickerel, pike, sturgeon, plus
thoseacrapplest game -fish of the
Canadian water -world, the mus.
calunge and the sinall-mount
black bass are found in abandon.
de. Both dlsirlcts have 1roduced
record fish, the most outstanding
of which was the sixty and one•,
half pound muscalunge caught
by Y. T. Coleman, of Eranaptile.
Devils Gain, in 1999. That pap
Indiana, in Eagle Lake, asst of
,
holds the world', racer&
T y of them! These
Ings didn't know
round winUow and green paint and
a swinging sign UP above with the
legend "The Old Shop."
Flower .conldut help it, l.Overy
now and again when no one was
about, .she would slip out and stand 11
in the cobble stone road and literal
ly gloat over the little window with
its charming assortment of odds and I
onds-anything you could possibly "
want in an emergency from• a pack
et of pin to a bathing cap, Crow a
pair of socks to a pennyworth - of
chocolate. , , II
Such a pretty Slip of a thing es
she stood there, her golden hair.
]blowing in, the wind the soft, ozone -
ladened wind which came from the
sea, and kissing her cheeks, left
an imprint there in the bloom or
her satin. .
"Hoity-toity! Aren't you the
little girl who used to come up to
The Bali and I used to call Goldi-
locks?" said his aunt.
newer turned with a start, her
cheeks red es the reddest rose that
nodded on the Odd Shop back -yard
walls, eyes like blue speedwells, i'ps
a pair' of cherries.
So thought Douglas Manson and
smiled with pleasure, so thought
'Bony and his heart beat faster,
"Look here, Aunt' Lavinia," said
Tony in a rather indignant voice.
"The young lady belongs to the
shop, and it's a little disconcerting
to be pounced on like that."
"Now aren't you the girl?" said
Lady Smedley, "Let me see,, didn't
you have, a perfectly charming
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name? Now 'whatever was it? LOY,e, •
1n -mist or Heather -hell, Lady s.
smock or • something-"
"Oh, please!'' said Flower, quite
desperate by this tine,
• For ' there was Lady Smedley.
with her shrill, carrying voice, with
a whole crowd of ,Society; Hoopla,
and all of them staring' at her,
amusement in their eyes paramount.
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