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The Clinton News Record, 1939-09-07, Page 2PAGE 2 TIIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Cl a t re Beyon " by KRTURRIME DEMUR BURT FIRST INSTALLMENT up behind them Marcella had said ceived. An ,older man, evidently. When Jocelyn, forgetting what her again t0 the same nun, twelve years "Mr. Bent, she said, you havo Wh g at_ music of her I music master had taught her, played older; more -waxen and more frail, really no right to' any.disappoint - -music 'own, her mother, Mar - "Oh, dear Sister Delice, how shall I1'ment, have` you? Because you can't -cella was alarmed. It was like the keep her—safe?" have had an interest in, me (there 'voice of ag strap er in the house. 1 The ;music Jocelyn was, playing was shadowy delicate drumroll on She rose from the prie-dieu in ani now, with that thunder look in her cin eyes and the bent position of her :alcove of the long spaatish-tool t g y room, difficult to recognize ae, the'' head, did not sound safe. Jocelyn living -room of a New York apiart- played gropingly, changed the time, -ment, and came forward past inter-, dropped into a definite melody and vening massive furniture to.look at began to sing in French, softly. Mar- -the player. 1. I cella did not understand all the words There she sat, the daughter Mar- but she made out that same child .cella had put into a foreign convent) played in the house, ran dawn the twelve years before, a smooth sleek) street, worked in the garden with 'golden girl, eighteen years old, full - ::bosomed, narrow -waisted and round - :hipped. "I want her to be safe," she had back over her'shoulder when . . murmured to a nun.. when twelve the little humpback crept up behind her . . And this recurred in a re- frain: "Quand le petit hossu, ma foil Vient se placer derriere mai." It was a French nursery rhyme, Marcella remembered, but the music to which this child of hers had put it was not a nursery melody. It was a Poe theme, a melody of fear. Le spade and hoe, but that always, sud- denly, no - matter what she did, some- thing would cause her to look sharply years before she had left the little ;girl trembling in the dint waxy - :smelling parlor of the convent. And meeting her only two days ago. on the wharf of 'her native city with :all .the strange tall towers stretching The . Clinton News -Record •. with 'which is incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION •1.50 per' year in advance, to Can- -radian addresses; an-sdian•addresses; $2.00 to the (I.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are ,paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription• is paid is denoted on the label. -ADVERTISING RATES — Transient .advertising 12c per count line for first insertion, 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 :lines. 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" "But, Mr. Kent, you are not so old as that?" He's richerthan old What's -His - Name. He, could hang his Queen over with diamonds' from her head, to her toes. He could buy the world fur her." "Buy the world? But just what would that mean?" The boy laughed, ' stopped and made an enormous gesture, all in the syncopated rhythms of then, exercise, "Means whoopee, tout'ce qu'il y a," he said. "Let yourself go, kid. The music will teach you, I'm not danger- ous. Not half so dangerous as a Knave of Diamonds, anyway." "I think I will marry the Knave of 'Diamonds," said his obedient parte oer just before she was stolen; fronn her young tutor in the art of letting herself go, "because I want nothing smaller than the whole wide world and I would love whoopee." It was, morning, almost broad morning, when Jocelyn stepped into her mother's waiting automobile. Marcella had climbed in first and settled into her corner profoundly. She leaned back there like a limp long wooden doll. Jocelyn phut her hand' on the side of the door and set her foot onthe running board. - Something cold touched her hand. She stepped down again and turn- dd. Just behind her, a man had plac- ed himself. A cripple, He looked up into her face from his shrunken height with bright and eager eyes. In his left hand, the one that had not touched her, he held the vanity case she had let fall. Jocelyn took it, almost snatched it from his long fingers, thanked hine breathlessly and stumbled into the car. It moved forward. "Why did you take so long to get in, Jocelyn?" There was something .,ice repressed fury in Marcella's ner- vous voice. "The air. blew in on me. Pm chilled through." "A little man, A little man—came and placed himself behind me,' she said .painstakingly. She gripped her mother's hard long hand in both of her own and bene "I ant nineteen years older than you are, Miss Jocelyn. I was twenty- five when you stood in the Paris bane and looked up at me. You weren't a pgetty little girl. But I had a sort on, vision. And even then I liked' the no- tion of a convent -bred ..." 'he drop p tit Boesu was no friendly genius ped his voice and diverted his largo who played with children. He was a blue eyes, wife", he finished gt'av- little monster, a little master, and ely. After a pause, "It's more than however the wretched haunted victim a notion now that I am close to you," tried to distract herself, whatever even too close it seemed to Jocelyn, childish pleasure or duty she under-, and looking into your.eyes and took, there of a sudden, casting a hearing you speak I see that you are cold shadow or making the faint really convent -bred. How long will sound of an uneven step, the little "And last through, here?" 'humpback, ma foi! had come to place And my mother did give you a Himself behind her, first—option?" questioned Jocelyn with her eyes down. Jocelyn Harlowe-s first bale -gown "She did, really. She said to me down' her head uppn them. So she -it was for a costume ball—was that day in -Paris, `There isn't a nisi; crouched against Marcella's lap with white, as all first ball -gowns prob-in the world I'd be so glad to trust her face hidden. She had never really ably should be. She was dressed her to, Felix. Will you wait?' " known a mother's comforting. So conventionally enough as Juliet, in "I am here,"' said Felix. "Thirty- perhaps she did not know how to ivory satin with a cap of pearls on seven years old. Successful. Unat- her head and with a rope of pearls tached." wrapped about her slim throat, 1 "And you did wait of course!" "I must marry this child quickly." "I wonder," she spoke musingly, t ?rank Fingland, BA., LL.B. .'Srurister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. te.loar, Blocs — Clinton, Ont. ,. ; D. IL McINNES CHIROPRACTOR: Electro Therapist, Massage ,Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) .Hours -Wed. and Sat.' and by appointment. , FOOT CORRECTION +toy manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 20'7 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered' Immediate arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate ; and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THURS., SEPT. 7, 1939 �='r'i i r °i'■"i5il'�°ih°i%'i■�ih°ei ■'r°■°iLr■�i�.'Y°■"-° i°a'° i°�Y °.°a" .'d,' ° ■r ti { YOUR Wv' O LD ANI) MINE erection costs,; which "'explains" the absence of dividends. Tom is a• philosopher --a real iCaopyright) S, thinker — frill' of wise sayings ante views.. I asked him what church he Ly JOHN 0. KIRKWO011' `� attended, and he said "The Presby - 'r: Y■ V3JLY: a•■"."■ 1'■ ■ ■ ."s . d ■°r .':. ° ° . 0".°1`.. "�.:'... �."p'r ..."°". ®�' 'terian", I knew that he had been prought up a Methodist, and 1 asked I had a letter from a man who him away from dances. He went him Chow it came about that he had. informed me that he had attended to dances in a neighboring town, on lefthis own denomination. "Well, the high school which I attended— long and hard day's weak. And he they tore down the church shed, at this in the same year—in 1890. I' goes to dances to this day, and with the NIethodist church this when was in the top forin while he was in eagerness. Also, Tom likes to play motor cars replaced horses. So, be the junior form, and he was 10 years cards -but not for money. Progres- cause there Was a good shed at the younger than I. Ile entered the sive euchre is a game liked by him. Presbyterian i Church, I began going - school after the Christmas holidays, He belongs to a social club—of amen, there, and anyway, I wasn't per•' and so was my 'schoolmate for only and it was as a member of this club, religious." Tom goes regularly to 6 months. He was a farmer's son, after the card gave. had ended and r goes - gu y church evenings, except in summer: and so I had not known hien pier- when men began chatting, that Tom,"If the minister takes a holiday , in ieusly. Then, his letter came to me learned to. snake -beginning at age' ?" the Summer, why shouldn't I too 48-49' years later, telling me that he p s a - p g es, > - ' non - had been at school with me. 1 .and his weeklyoutlayon tobaeca is 1 a Tame wan of explainirg his attendance in the summer months. could not recall him' at all, yet 25 cents, "I get a dollar's worth of he had remembered me — partly pleasure for my quarter", said Tom. Tom is ready g to a to war—this adorned with picture f til if •a man of his age would be ac - 42. Torn refer i e to ci •arett I' because my writings have been Tom carries a silver cigarette- ease appearing regularly . for several years in his local newspaper, He said in his letter that he wanted . to call on me and take me out to luncheon.. This he did, and because I was so much interested in what he said about his past and present way of life, I have felt inclined to tell of. him in this contribution to the News - Record. I shall call this man Toni Black, which is, of course, note his real name. It was midday when this man ent- ered my office confidently and brightly, with a smile on his face. I did not rise to .welcome him, for miss it either, then. Often Felix Kent came in to see them, During his visits in the living - room Marcella was a constant chap - wt a pt use o a scanty 1 cepted. Ile would like to work with clad beauty,'and presents feels rather horses. "I like a good horse more devilish when he his case tel than I do a womanhe said: which, a woman -smoker. confession would not please` any' Tom worked for his( father, for Woman with eyes on Tom. wages, for two years after he left I asked Tom if he had any hobbies, school. From the very first he was what kind ,of reading he does, if he thrifty—purposefully thrifty, for he!has any inclination to travel. Ile has had seen so many farmers and no hobbies. He does not like, garden - ethers, when old age cr near -old ageIing, though he does grow vegetables. was reached, without means. So he He has a vacant lot .along side his determined, even in his teens, than house, and this he had made aplay- he would save money. ground for neighborhood children After his ten years with his father (Tom never had children of his own.), Tom bought a farm for himself, and He has built a swing on this lot far married—and prospered: He was a the children, and children ask hire I did not know him. He introduced hard and an intelligent worker. to swing them. This year Tom went himself quickly, and so we started Never did he own a motor car—be- on two motor -car journeys with a in to get better acquainted wibh each cause a motor was a consumer o2 friend—ta Northern Ontario and in - other. money. A horse and buggy or a to Michigan and beyond; yet he pre - Tam today is, a widower, and lives horse and saddle sufficed for Tom— fere to be at home. He says that in a bungalow all by himself, and or his own good legs. I asked Tom someday he may. go West to see the has done so for a number of years. what type of farming he practised. country. Marcella thought. Her own image, "what you were doing all these eron. Jocelyn would play her piano or Lall and black, stood like a shadow In years? Think of it, if you will, twe;ve sit with her eyes down listening to a mirror behind the radiant girl. "I years) And you in the world, excit-.I her ,mother's hard manufactured con- am neither gifted nor disposed for its ing, pleasant, dangerous, full of so! versation with the older man. entertainment or control. I must get many wonderful stirring things. But the girl's eyes studied Felix it off my hands, must lock it up And you were making your success. Kent. The grayness on each temple again before it can Injure me or A great one, wasn't it?" !became, him. His regular long face divert me. I must make it safe "I will admit to you that it heel was handsomely correct. A sort of again as it was safe in the convent. not been—insignificant." incandescence obliterated the expres- I must put it out of the way." "And learning to understand men I sionlessness of his large blue eyes In her terror Marcella actually and women and life. For twelve long) when they met Iters. Watching him used this dreadful euphemism, with,- years while I ... oh, Mr. Kent, how' sidelong through' her tilted eyelashes Jocelyn found .him a feast to her starved fancy for hero-worship. She had never before studied a man at out any realization of what her mind shall I ever make them up ... twelve had said. She did not "1. -now that in years." • her tormented and angry soul she "But, dear child, the years between had wished a death. She called her -"six and eighteen -are not years whet: each close quarters. self Jocelyn's .mother but what she a girl, or a boy either, can be turned wished for' in face of a brilliant be- loose in the world." ing, deep -eyed, deep -bosomed, ruby -1 "Are they not?" she said. "Some - lipped, was :.. its annihilation, She times I've dared to think, though na- called the destiny a marriage. She; turally nobody cares what I. think, had even instantly, as a murderer, that a great education for the world instantly conceives his weapon, a1 would be to live in it." THE McKJLLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- (forth; Vice President, William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M1 A. Reid, ,Seaforth. Directors, Alex. •Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, 'Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; W. -R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leoaahardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, 431- •FrankM cGr, e or, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, 'Gdderich, Phone 6031.31, Clinton 'James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, !Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer- 'cher, Dublin, R. R. No. ' 1; Chas. F. (Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jartttuth, ,;Bornholm; R, R. No. 1, Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Ciitt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will •oe promptly attended to an applies ion to any of the above officers ad- dzessed to their respective•post offi- ces. Losses. inspected by the director who livesnearest the scene. There came an evening when Mar- cella left them alone. Jocelyn was ather piano dutifui:y executing a commanded melody. It was intricate and held all her atten- tion. She did not know that she had been left unchaperoned in the room husband in her mind. It must be! "Life for a girl should begin with with Felix Kent. managed quickly before Jocelyn was her marriage." He came and stood close to her, fully awakened to reality. She must) "That is what they taught us as leaning on the piano. In the slim be made to long for it ignorantly as' the convent. I did not know you be -1 severity of evening dress he looked a release. ' , 1lieved that here." sleek and attractive, like a panther. It was a Poe theme . . a melody of fear Before Jocelyn's return from Kent laughed. But he was giddy France Marcella had been busy; and filled with instant fear. There warming chilled social contacts, melt -1 tad never in the world been a lovely ing the edges from metallic connec-I child like this one, so frankly hungry, tions of one sort or anofher. She1 so ignorantly passionate, and so un - had once had a great position in the;taught; taught; with not a.. jot of the deer city and it was not too difficult, incold wisdom of experience.. He could spite of what had once shattered her' hardly bear to surrender her to her life, to make herself remembered. Sol next partner. He felt an absurd when she brought Jocelyn into the knife-edge of pain and anger when ballroom, she was able to obtain for; she was drawn into the young man's her, aided by her own exotic charm,) arms. The boy had a masked face a sufficiency ;of fantastic partners --el and a slender gondolier's waist, sash- to Jocelyn they all seemed Romeos I ed in scarlet silk. and the ballroom an iridescent bubbiel Kent sought out Jocelyn's mother of delight—and at last even to at- and bending his faie lean • weight tract for Iter the supper -partner Mar -I above her he talked and talked ancr cella had desired. This was Felix talked. Kent, dressed as the Jack of Diam- Jocelyn' dancer) past them where ends. they stood and wondered why they "But you don't look it,"' he said, were so flushed and serious. seating himself beside flushed Juliet "It was the Jack of Hearts, Wasn't at the small palmy rosy table they it, \ that stole the tarts?' she asked had taken for themselves. "You don't .the gondolier. look it and you don't act it and you "Sure thing," said this partner, don't—yes, you, do speak it. You trying to break the soft reserve o: have a delicious little French accent. her body to his own will, "but tins And, well, something about the way chapyou had supper with is the Jack you move your lips and use your of Diamonds, He's Felix Kent. He's eyes is different, conventual. Perhaps got 'em too." I'm not/ going to be disappointed of "Not tarts but diamonds?' asked ter all." • Jocelyn in a voice that seethed to ask This was an address altogether dif- 'for love. 'Yes, or the means to 'get them TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. 'Going East, depart .. ....6.58 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 pen +Going 'West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going 'West, depart 10.00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce. S.ioing North, ar. 1125 lve. 11.47 p.m. ',Going South ,an 2:50, leave 3.08 p.m., ferent from any Jocelyn had .yet re - "Stop playing . just a minute, Jocelyn, please." She obeyed. "Your, mother has left us togeth- er." Jocelyn stood up, saw that the rest of the room was empty, sat dawn, lowered her eyes and flushed. "I; asked her to," Felix continued. He came and sat down beside her an the long piano bench. "You're not afraid of me, are you?" "No."' But she was shaking and wondering why. "Your freshness, my darling, is an ecstasy to me. And your wildness as lovely as a spring wind. You know I love you." "Yes," said Jocelyn, trembling. "Do you think you can love me?" 'I don't know, monsieur." He laughed in soft delight and drew closer. "I may put my arm around you, loveliest?" She made na movement nor sound but he, interpreting her silence, did draw her to him and she came softly, suddenly so that all of her young body seemed to be his own. Then he kissed her mouth. At that she was up and at the far side of the room. Never had he _seen a living creature move so swiftly. Both her hands were .pressed against her lips: Her bosom panted. Her eyes were distended and wet. (Continued Next Issue ) He does his own housekeeping, pre- pares his own meals, does his own preserving and -catsup making, and does his own laundering. When I suggested to him—him aged 61— that he should re -marry, he was not responsive to this suggestion -which was, of course, no new one. Tom Is not very sure that he would get along well with a new wife. I advised a wife aged 50 or so—and perhaps a widow, and Tom agreed that a wife of nature years would be better for hiinthan some sweet young thing; and Tam was vain enough to think get at his work, and he "did" for that he would not have much trouble 'himself domestically — for his wife in finding a spouse—for he would. be had died. Tont says that he could make money, in 'the circumstances. Toast's industry and thrift and shrewdness in things financial en- abled him to buy government an- nuities, and today his income is larg- er than his needs and wants. He did put money into a Toronto apart- ment house -project, but has not had a cent from this investment for many years. The structure cost $325,000, Tom 'said—which, in his opinion, was $125,000 too, much, and it was the 334 On Gunranieed Trust Certificates A legal investment for Trust Funds Unconditionally Guaranteed STEM/ i TER/i T RUSTS CORPORATION -• STERLING TOWER TORONTO At one time he sold cream to Tor- onto buyers; later he fattened cattle for market. In 1914 he was offered Tom reads newspapers, a farm paper, and The Saturday Evening Post, Books do not interest him— a very alluring price for his farm, I unless it be the Bible. This he reads, and sold it, moving into his county's and gets much instructidn from its town There he did teaming, and pages. carpentering, and like things, and "made good money"il-this for tent This is the, story of Tom and of years. Then he bought himself a his way of life. 55 -acre farm, and did all the work on it himself, except in the harvest period, when he hired a helper. He was up at 4.30 in the spring, sum- mer and autumn days, in order to a good "catch"; also because there are so many surplus women in the world many of whom are willing to take a chance on some man with an assured income. Tom is not a woman - hater by any means; he is just very well content with things as they are. Tom has a social instinct, despite his preference for living alone. All his ,life lee has liked dancing—this despite the fact that in his early life he was a Methodist. But itis Methodist affiliation failed to keep "water'.' or the profiteering' in the UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT Western Fair, Sept. llth-16th,1939 One of the -most attractive features of the Western Fair in 1937 and 1938 was the UNIVER- SITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO exhibit on the second floor at the east end of the Manufacturers' building. 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