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The Clinton News Record, 1939-09-28, Page 2PAGE 2 aplure Bc$n'✓ INT by KRTIURifE REWISIR FOURTH INSTALLMMENT he is sitting with several men in the Synopsis midst of a card game to whom he Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in aren'ch' introduces her as his daughter. onvent, at the age of eighteen joins her" mother, Marcella, in New York. "I want to 'see you, Father. I Worried about her safety, because got out the way you showed 'me. :slae -La unfamiliar with the modern Mother doesn't know I'm here," "Nothing wrong then?" "No." "I felt that I must see you. There's. something in me that belongs to you. "Lonely? With a fiance and a mother and a crowd of Friends?" "Felix is still a stranger. Mother doesn't want to love me; she hastold me so. I have ;no friends." Nick put an arm rougbly around her. "All right, Lynda. I'll be your friend. I don't mind loving yob. Only it's ` a rash move on your part, you know. I'm not the most creditable parent in the world. "But look here, old girl. You've erious father. As Lynda Sandal she been carefully raised in a religious ;goes to his house, climbs three flights atmosphere and all that. Doesn't your little old conscience say anything about deceiving a kind mother and The Clinton News -Record that good fellow with the neat face of stairs and enters a room where world and has developed into a ;beautiful woman, her mother's first 'wish is to get her safely married. .Attending her first ball, Jocelyn -meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and nineteenyears older than herself. En- •couraged by her mother, she and Felix quickly become engaged. Alone in her apartment one night, a cripple, 'Nick Sandal; enters by tate fire- >escape, confides in her that he is her father and that her real name is 'Lyinda Sandal. 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'Going West, depart 11,45 a.m. Going West, depart 10.00 pun. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p.m. Going South at. 2,50, leave 3.08 p.m. whose photograph you showed me?" "My conscience? But, Father haven't I a sort of duty to youT Don't you need me as much as they do?" • "No, I don't. And you haven't. Don't fool yourself. You can't bolster up your conscience with that truck, my girl," Jocelyn began to Iook passionate and her yellow eyes. glowed. "All right. I don't care. Mother won't tell me anything. She has her secrets, and she keeps them. I shall have one of my own. Felix is as locked up as his own great big shining safe. They both keep life, real life, away from me as thou h r some it w e e ss. a sort of reptile. I want to know people, all kinds of people, different sorts of people. I want to know how good it is to be bad, and how bad it may be to be good. I want adventure, risks, dan- gers; I want----" "You want too much. You're only a girl and what's worse, you're a young lady! Laugh that off if you can, Miss Jocelyn Harlowe." "Hush! Not here. Here I'm Lynda Sandal." • At that Nick threw back his head and laughed. "You win. And I surrender. Lynda Sandal, I hereby take you as my child for llatter'or for worse and promise to show you all the reality and the adventure I can decently supply. In order to seal our compact and to show my sincerity," he stood up, lifted his THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., SEPT. 28, 1939 him that? He reminds you of 'some one named Felix you hate?" "Well, yes, Miss Sandal, A regular knave---„ "But, please tell ire, Felix who?" "Hold your fool tongue, Jock," crieci Nick fiercely. "And get out of here. Can't I have my rooms to my- self sometimes without a cub of a card -sharper loafing about them!" Ayleward, scared'. and blinking, like! a boy that has been cuffed ruthlessly and without warning, muttered some unintelligible excuse and got himself out hastily. Jocelyn turned to her father as the doom closed. "Why did you stop him? Was it— has it anything to do with my Felix?" "No, you little 'idiot! Didn't you ever hear of Felix the.Cat? I thought not. You don't know anything, do. you? He's a cartoon pussy of varying adventures. You leave our lingo alone, girl, until I give you a few 'lessons. I stopped him because once he gets on that Felix Gat subject there's no getting rid of him.Come and sit down here." Before she left her ,'father, that strange adventurous night, Jocelyn questioned him: "What is the hunting ground?" "A gambling place." • "Do you hate my mother?" "I've outgrown. hatreds." "Do you want me to marry Felix Kent?" A. shrug, "Mr. Dooley said,' 'Take the first one that asks you. They're all alike.' Kent has money so he'll probably rim straight." "Do you suppose he'll make me haPPYe" "No, my dear. • No man has ever made a woman happy. She must man- ufacture happiness for herself, or an, quire none." "I think that you and racy mother are alike." ` "God forbid!" he murmured. "You do hate her! I mean, alike in this one respect. Neither of you ,has found happiness in being loved." After a long and troubled silence she asked him "When may T come Iagain to see you?" "Whenever you please, mydear, or lean make it convenient. I am nearly always at home. Most of the trine on ',this old sofa. Every day I find it harder to get about." "Oh, Father, can't something be done?" Ile shook his head. "Jock has done what he could for me. He takes care of me now, you must know. It's fair enough. There • Her hen, Went plunging. hand in e great gesture and raises his vela?, "Lynda, I want you to meet sante of my friends." At the changed timbre of his voice, the four card players turned. "Boys, I want to present to you my daughter, Miss Lynda Sandal. Mr. James Drury, Mr. Saul Morrison and Mr. Gustave Lowe, Jock Ayleward, my protege and my protector." Jock rose and bowed. He was the young man with the queer eyebrows and the flexible nose, the one who had thrown the knife. "Don't stop playing. MayI watch the game?" "We're quitting, • Miss Sandal.'" So long, Old Nick. See you later at the hunting grounds, Ayleward. They went, slipping into tight neat coats, slapping on their hats at rakish angles, smiling . at Lynda last with probing' looks. Jock stayed near the table gather- ing up the cards. "Why did you knife the Knave of Diamonds, Mr. Ayleward?" asked Lynda watching him, "He's an old enemy of mine, Miss Sandal. He looks like a real knave I know." "Well," drawled Sandal from be- hind them with sudden suave severity, "next time you throw knives on my premises PI kickyou out of here." Jock turned to emile at him wiib sweetness. "I'm sorry, Old Nick. When 1 think of that Felix face of his it brings the devil up into my brain, I go blind." Jocelyn found herself Stammering. "A F—Felix feel? You, mean--theKnave of Diamonds'? Why do you all was a time when I took care of him." "He loves you, Father. I can see that when he smiles." "He's not a bad scout but don't get romantic about him, : Lynda. He's not the man your Felix is, for instance. He has a poor outlook otr life and a character which might be called un- stable." , "He's loyal to you." "TJh-hum." "There's a sort of stability in that." "Uh-hum. Emotionally I should say he was a sort of bulldog. But that's because, perhaps, he's not been cod- dled d any by life. He knowe the value. of the few people that care for hint" "Who else beside you, leather?" The bright-eyed cripple laughed in a low and 'taunting key. "About a dozen women, roughly speaking." It silenced Lynda on that theme. 'He put her himself into a taxicab,. escorting her down through the house with its rumors. of revelry and play.' Jocelyn'ssecret life had been al- most smothered out by its strong and ancient enemy, the conventual idea;• and since her arrival in New York her mother had given the fire and Nerve , of the girl nothing to feed upon except the one bright longing • so blind?" They were, however, more sensitive to her perhaps than she imagined. Ono evening/ Felix questioned her. Heretofore Jocelyn had been the questioner, "Why,' he asked her, "do you look so conventual tonight?" Jocelyn was wearing white and her hair was sleek as an otter's 'skin about her smooth rich face, "You used to say I didn't look as I ought to; conventual, that is." "Tonight you do." Ile went over to her, sat on the atm of her chair and bent above her, cap- turing her in one strong arm. "Look, child, I have to be away from you for a foright presently." Her heart went plunging, whether for joy or sorrow she could not for the life of her have told. "When I come back don't you think we could shorten this engagement of ours a little? I'm weary of convent airs. "I want a wife!" Jocelyn's eyes leaped to her mother for aid, or rescue. Marcella spoke in measure as though she were reciting. "I can see no reason for keeping you waiting much longer, Felix, I' did say a four months' engagement but is seems to me that you have tested each other's a 'fections now sufficiently, have had'time to draw close to each other. Of course we must wait until the end of the lenten season. It might be possible to Ar- range for a wedding then. While you are away in Arizona I shall go to the 'sisters. I will ask Cousin Sara Mullet to come and stay" here with Jocelyn. -I think the child will be glad to have this little 'interval of loneliness. She will be able to pre- pare herself fon the great—for the happy change." The girl looked from .one to the other. "You mean you'll both go away? You'll leave me alone here for al those days before ... before ... ?' Felix bent to her lips. Before his own fell upon them he said in a low key, "Much safer for you, my dar- ling, to be rid of me just now". And the kiss she dreaded fell upon her with the anguish of a • blow. Swiftly the thought came to her, "I shall be free. I shall be almost free." 1"I don't think,' she said and there was an echo in her voice of Nick Sandal's irony, "I don't remember that either of you has asked what :.'r•,".MAIY P..Le.,%%SY."X•,,,WV.ArWAi'rAA g NYA.V.V dr:rpA.V.V. .A. YOUR WORLD AND MINE to escape. Marcella should have moved even more rapidly. Now, with the front door of her life barred, Jocelyn }lad climbed out of a window in the inn nsemorial.fashion of all jailed, adven- I turers, In these strange days and nights that folowed her first escapade 'Jocelyn found herself saying, as she contemplated "her two guardians with those changed eyes of hers: "How can they be so blind? Howcan they be II want, have you?" Felix laughed with tenderness Marcella protested, "Jocelyn!" Jocelyn turned to -them, her face bent down and her smiling eyes listed "I skint say no, Mother. And, Felix I don't say yes." " Their faces locked into tyranny ami anger, both controlled as out of M- dulgence to a child. "But while you are both away,' she confronted their tyranny wit proud' and secret eyes, "I — will decide." Events shaped tnemselves rapidly to make her quest of the truth pos sible. Cousin Sara,came, an old woman : with an ear trumpet, ver y active and very lame, who gadded about the city all day with a pas- sionate enthusiasm for shopping, and went to bed, at night exhausted by her own nervous activity. To super- intend Jocelyn's trousseau, to buy what must be bought, to stow it away, all this was a sort of wistfu heaven to the poor old lady. She did not even begin to think of under- standing Jocelyn. After Felix had been gone four days -and Jocelyn rather anxiously recognised that she had missed him —and after Marcella had been buried in her convent for as long a time, after Cousin Sara had settled in like some squirrel -creature to the routine of acquisition and repose, there came a night . , Mary's night out, when Jocelyn drew from her old trunk the pleated skint and the small dark jar, ket and - the tam-o'-shanter and ran her fingers through her hair. It was a thick night with fog across the river and a multitudinous Voice of horns and bells, the lights. all sphered to golden fruits: Aladdin's garden, thought Jocelyn. This time she founcl her father in the outer room of his. lodging, alone, At her knock a footstep hurried tai the door, It opened and Nick stood before her. Ile . seemed for a flash' disappointed at what he had found there on his threshold, "I didn't expect to see. you' again,' he said. "I thought you'd had en- ough." "Enough? Father, I've been living to get Meek here. Are we alone?" "For the present we are." "Then may I look into your other rooms?" (Continued, Next Issue) RIDES 180 MILES TO ENLIST Because he wanted to see action. as soon as possible, Ross Penning- ton, 19 -year-old Goderich youth, ask- ed for and received his dischargo papers from the Middlesex and Huron Regiment, so.that he could. enlist with the new Essex County unit. He arrived at Windsor after riding 180 miles on a "one -lung" 1927 model motorcycle. (Copyright) by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD :el`Y . ,f . Y ."y".",1"W ".A.�.bY�."q"► IN Y o�I q" "" I D Nqq tlmb gi W i d P h AT o U a''cl''Af The outbreak of a new war be -May, a Canadian delegate to that offered me $100 and, my expenses to tweoq the Allies—Britain and France London conference met me in Toronto go to Chicago to' talk over the matter, --and Germany sent my mind bac(. on his return from England, and told This I did. From that day to this to the beginnings, of the Great War, me that my appointment would not I `never heard anything more about 25 years ago, and to my own affairs 'ee confirmed -for a reason which he him or his Palm'. at and before that time. Perhaps was not able to communicate. Short -1 Quite obviously, Mr. Cowan could if I tell the story, which is very ly afterwards it was announced that I not go ahead on the project, for personal, I may be forgiven by my the British company—a very famous farmers had too much else tie -think readers for my indulgence of self- London banking house—had failed: it about. It. meant that the $1000' whieh awareness, had tried to make •a corner on Grand Mr. Cowan had paid me for services Trunk Pacific stock, and went .smash was lost money to him, At the beginning of 1914 I was a over the collapse of their enterprise. : The invitation ' extended me by free-lance • advertising man in Tor- This, smash meant also the smash l Colonel Maclean had been withdrawn onto. In December of the prece'ding of the Western Canada settlement:at at the beginning of the war,. but later ' year T had voluntarily given up a scheme and the disappearance of myitwas renewed, and I went to the salaried jab with a large beak -pub- prospective heavenly job. Maclean Publishing Company, where i. l shin ' house o se becaus e I didI em r Fishing not wantremained foe three years,editing w n During thea ng summer Colonel T. B to' go out selling subscription books. Maclean, head of the Maclean Pub "Printer and Publisher" and giving The company's regular salesmen were lishing Company, Toronto, and hie this- company 60 hours a week, doing: having a hard time of it in 1913, be- general manager had informed "me various work, at so much an hemi. 1 cause that year taw a slinking away that they wanted me to join their still retained my status as free lance, of prosperity, company—in the autumn. but I had not much time for other Then came, in late July, the shadow employment. When I went on my own', I had o f tau Great War I ymention thatin 191.7 the' an idea—a competition, based on the a may question "Iffriend who had invited me to go to you had $1 would to im- On the chance that war Would En land to attend a conference on the prove your farm, how you clime I had conceived the project of g ' spend the money?" I found a buyer producing a pocket map of. Europe. sads. lan soaanizatinn of Wnestern Can - of this idea in H. B, Cowan, publisher I had made up a "dummy", and had d gd n vited r . ga ao of "Farm & Dairy" in Petetborough. tried to sell:the idea—as represented England, to da special work. I was Mr. Cowan tools myall Toady to ga an December 1917, project r con- by my dummy—for Then But I could when a cable came bidding me to dition 'I would take full charge of not find a buyer. I found a postpone departure, because the war the enterprise, including the selling printer willing to go 50-50 with me had begun to go badly for the Allies. of space to advertisers, for part of on the project, he tb accept certain The invitation was renewed in 1919, the scheme was the publication, of a liabilities. I had arranged for an and I went to London in March 1919, handbook which would contain adver- artist to draw the map. Then, when and remained there until 1930. isements. So in February I set out war was declared by Britain against Another small benefit derived from to canvas advertisers. Things were Germany, on the Monday, August 4th, the war was a cheque for $60 for going swimmingly. I had quiek and the `artist went to work to draw the quick idea. A. maker of confection - fine success, but Mr. Gowan warned map—at top seed, and I went about ery boxes asked inc to submit a sug- me that when Appril came, and when trying to sell the map. I sold, from gestion for a good design for a war - farmers were able to work their land, my dummy, 20,000 copies to one life time box, and on the instant I said, I would not be able to get the at- insurance company, and 10,000 copies "The Arans of the Allies". This de- tention of advertisers, and would have to another insurance'company, and sign was worked up, and used, to postpone .further solicitation of 10,000 copies to other buyers — a manufacturers and others selling to total of 40,000 copies. These sales) farmers until September which yielded' the printer and myself a net My liking for maps led me early meant that I would have to carry profit of over $950—all earned during this year to have produced a pocket - on with other work during the sum -the first week of the war. !size map of Europe, but when it was mer months. wrote a series of articles on margar- ine -then a subject of live interest -- to "Canadian Grocer". A little later I wrote to the publisher of a farm paper nublishecl in Chicago, who had learned about my farm improvement project. He thought that he might be able to use this scheme in con- nection with his newspaper, and he g the 2nd week of the war, 3 fust ready, most persons approached got another idea—a series - of "good to buy a quantity for distribution • cheer" advertisements to be publish- with their compliments said, "We Before I had begun working on this g g ed by the press of Canada in their want to distribute nothing which re - farm improvement project, I had re- own publications. I may say here calls the alarm from which we have ceived a, letter from :afriend in Fang- that when the war began advertisers just escaped". My map had appeared land, inviting me to go to Landon all over the North American contin- just when the fear of war had re - to sit in at a' conference of men con- ent, with almost 'complete unanimity, ceded. But since war has begun, my netted with a Western Canada land cancelled their advertising, and pub- map has been purchased by several Company; this company of British fishers were in a panic. As I saw companies. capitalists had three million acres in things, Canada was to be a very won- Again I am a free lance -25 years Western Canada, which they proposed derful beneficiary of the European older. to colonize with British and European war: we should be called on to sup -Thus turns the wheel of time and settlers. My friend had succeeded in ply a very wide variety of war re- .circumstance, persuading this British company to quirements, in measureless quantity, employ me as the publicity man, and and so, as I saw it, there was no my job would require me to travel need for funk or fear. So I wrote hibetween Canada and Britain -Europe. several advertisements and took them lt looked like a heavenly job. 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