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The Wingham Advance Times, 1934-09-13, Page 6PAQE SIX WINGHAM'ADVANCg-TIMES Thursday Sept., 13th, 190 SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colored raodster had been found wrecked in. ,fit,, the sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cushing appears at the desert town Marston. She has bought, sight unseen, a ranch located thirty miles away. Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor and his man Boone Petry procure a reliable woman for her and in Barry's car loaded down -with supplies, they start across the desert. In . Marston her; reticence has aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne become more than neighbors, and when Anne is Jost in the hills and rescued by Barry, each realizes that something more than friendship exists between them. After a hasty wedding they go East to Barry's home. Three weeks after a cream colored roadster had been found wrecked in the sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cushing appears at the desert town Marston, She has bought, sight unseen, a ranch located thirty miles away. Soon after her ar- rival she marries Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor. Against her better judgment she accompanies her hus- band East. Mrs. Duane is bitterly re- sentful of Anne. Wealthy Cleo Pen- dleton, her obvious choice, vows re- venge. Anne recognizes a man loiter- ing- on the Duane grounds. Later Bar- ry tells Anne John Gage is the real head of the Duane mills. He fails to note her frozen silence. "She handled the blonde rather well," Riddle remarked absently. "Well, that was a mistake." "A very natural one." Riddle seem- ed eemed absorbed in his ball. "I saw the resemblance as soon as she spoke. It's startling." "How the devil," sputtered Halli- day, "could you see a resemblance to some unknown female whose name wasn't even mentioned?" "Just an unsuspected gleam of in- telligence As soon as I caught the blonde's girlish chatter I made the connection. This Mrs. Duane is prac- tically the image of an actress 1 saw a couple of years ago. T ran across her picture in the paper again last spring. She'd been killed in a motor accident. Her car skidded over the e of a edg she cliff andwasdrowned." Halliday said "M'm" and lost in- terest. Riddle stopped to light a cig- arette. "They never fount, the body," he said thoughtfully. "That sounds like a nasty crack, Ward." "I._ didn't intend it that way. But that girl's name was Nancy, too. It struck me as a remarkable coinci- dence." Dick reddened. "It's the kind of a ccincidence that wants to be kept un- der your hat," he said grumpily. "Here her eyes were blazing with hope and excitement. "There are lots of places. We can get a tiny apartment some- where and have lots of fun," He faced her with obstinate d.:ter- mination, angry, but more alive than she had seen him in weeks. "I'm going in to town tomorrow and I'm going w see Gage again if I have to !:nock down a row of secre- taries to get to him. We're going to comes Barry. We'd better change the have one more round over the Jun - subject, and darned quick." ipero." * * * * She gave his aria a sudden squeeze. They made the return trip in good "He must agree this time, It means time, arriving before the dinner hour. so much!" . Mrs. Duane did not appear. Mrs. Barry was called to the telephone, Duane, with the purse strings held but Anne stayed there, curled up in firmly in her own delicate hands, had a chair. established her separate dining room Barry took an early train the next in the west wing. morning. Anne knew when Barry carie into "I don't know how long I may have the room that he had bad. news for to wait before I can see him, but I'm going to be on hand. Wish me luck, Nancy." "Oh Barry, I do!" She gave him a desperate little hug as he kissed her goodbye. The morning mail came as he left, and Matthews handed her some let- ters. There was one envelope that she looked at twice. She hurried' to her room and tore the envelope open. I must see you again. It's im- portant. I am going in to town on Wednesday and will meet you at the Roswell, on Seventh, at two o'clock sharp, Better decide to come. Granleigh won't do. I think you are being watched there. JIM. An hour Iater she rang for Mat- thews. "I've decided to go in to. town Matthews. If Mr. Barry should call up later, tell him where I have gone. He can have me paged at the Plaza, any time after three." her. Anne felt her face grow hot. "Do you mean," she asked slowly, "that your mother refuses to sit at the same table with me?" "Don't take it that way, Nancy. She's old, and -she doesn't see things as we do:' "There's no other way to take it," she said dully. He had just come back from a bit- ter half hour with his mother, and he was stung with a humiliation that he could not admit, even to her. "Oh, my dear!" Her eyes stung with sudden tears of contrition, but she blinked them back hastily. "I know it's hard for you, Barry. If I could do anything -if there's any pos- sible way-" He shook his head. "No. I'm afraid it can't be helped. It's her house. I'm sorry; that's all I can say. But of course this can't go on. We must look for other quarters." He looked worried and his jaw was * * * * tight, The Perch would have provid- Barry was talking hard. He had ed comfort and a decent living,but waited over three hours for this aud- the Perch was closed to them for six ience. Gage listened and grunted. months in each year. "Oh, it's that, is it? Thought you'd "Im terribly sorry to have got you given up that nonsense by this time." into this, Barry. We can go anywhere "It isn't nonsense, Mr. Gage. It's you like. 'Were you thinking of -stay- e y t h nl.ing horse sense. The land is there, acres anxious to see his money go the same way,'' • "It can't. Not for the same reason, anyway. If you don't want to risk it, I don't suppose that I could say any- thing to change your decision, but why don't you sell your side of the spur and give niethe chance to inter- else? I thought -when I told you est somebody else?" "See here, ,Mr. Gage, I know floe making a nuisance of 'myself, but I feel certain that you would let down the bars if, you really had a took 'at the place." • "Young man, do you know what my time is worth?" "I know that it is worth more than I could hope to meet in cash. But you might consider taking a vacation. Do you like good shooting? Or fish- ing? Like to ride a good horse over'' mountain trails, and not see another human being but your guide all day long?" "Sounds pretty good." Gage grunt- ed. "Got a cook who can give a man• plain ham and eggs without drowning em in a gummy sauce?" Barry leaned back with a grin of pure relief. if nobody can have a business inter - "I'11 guarantee both the cook and view with your wife without your per- the appeitite." mission." ''What kind of accommo-lotions "You'd better consider it finished. have you? I'd want to bring Mrs. Get out!" Gage. She hasn't been well lately." The voice was low, but the words $airy politely swallowed his dis- were bitten off and flung. For a mo - may. His one meeting with Mrs. John ment longer, they stared at each oth- Gage had left him with the recollec- tion of a dazzling. loveiiness and prob- ably not much else. 'There's a big long ranch house with all the improvements, and elec- tric current. Of course it isn't town," "That's all right. The change might do her good." They went down together in a pri- vate elevator. Barry had won a vic- tory, but he wondered grimly what Nancy was going to do to keep the lovely Paula from being bored to hy- sterics. Barry turned briskly back from the curb, intending to find the nearest telephone and break the glad news to Nancy. He took two steps and slow- ed down. A few yards ahead of hire a man was signalling a taxi. Barry had vag- uely noticed the same man loitering in the corridor when they had come nut. Instead of a trim uniform he wore a well -fitting blue suit but Bar- ry knew him. As Kennedy stepped into a taxi Barry jerked his finger at nth that night?" "Jim! You wouldn't be so insane:, ly cruel!'! Kennedy flushed slightly, but his hard gaze did not waver. Anne reach- ed over and clutched at his •hand. "Haven't you any mercy for anyone. about that the other night -that you Oh!" Her voice died in a shaking breath, She was looking past Kennedy with a stricken stare. "Oh ---Barry, I won't you . . " She stammered, stiffening and try- ing to smile, as he came grimly to- ward them, his face set and a white line of fury around his lips. Barry looked past Kennedy as though be had not been there. "If you have finished," he said, "it will not be necessary for your -com- panion -to see you home." Anne arose slowly, but Kennedy's chair had already rasped back. He was on his feet,'a dark glitter in his eyes. `"High handed, aren't you? You must think you're damned important, an er. 'Follow that black and white," he said, and slammed the door. Once they lest sight of it, but Bar- ing in Granleigh?" on acres of it, as rich as the Imperial rys driver expertly picked up the "I haven't thought much of any- could ever be; the water is there; and trz.1 Barry wis beginning to feel thing vet." He stopped and gave her all that separates them is one spur slightly ashamed of the unreasoned a quick, embarrassed smile. "No, I of rock." in,tulsc which had sent him careen - suppose not. No use in advertising "And a pot of money. And don't things -and it's pretty expensive here. forget that the first project got a "Of course." She was afraid that ,black eye, and nobody's going to be ===X0=0=01=0===101=0====01=0, A Classified Want Ad In The Advance -Tines Will Sell It For You ! Don't think that Buyers are as hard to find as the proverb- ial "needle in the hay stack" Not if you ADVERTISE! People, these dans, are "Bargain Hunters", and, nearly 2000 Families in this district are constant readers of this paper,and make it a prac- tice to watch the Classified Want Ad. Column for the "Buying Op- portunities" listed there. RATES Iz% CENTS PER WORD WITH A MINIMUM' OF 25e. Telephone 1 0„ 0 h 0 q 0 0 q int; 2cross town. They were in a shabbier, busier dis- trict now. The black and white taxi had gained on them again. It swung in to the curb in front of a dingy - looking entrance, and Kennedy got out. "I'll stop here." Barry tossed a bill to the driver. Having made a complete idiot of 'him- self, he would walk back for a few blocks and put in a call to Nancy. For his self-respect he stepped into a doorway, inclined to grin at him- self. It gave him a good view of the hotel. Another taxi had just drawn up. A small, slim figure stepped out, and looked around quickly. Girl and man vanished into the dingy portals of. the hotel. Anne looked hastily around the uninviting lobby. "Don't like it?" Kennedy seni an amused glint at her. Of course not. And what slid you mean by saying that I was being watched in Granleigh?" "Just a bright little deduction of mine. Somebody saw us the .other night. I heard it from the little blonde boss before I'd been back half an hour." "So it was Cleo!" Anne said it away, Nancy. "That's preposterous!" An angry color flamed, but fright was crowd- ing anger aside. "What possible ex- cuse could I give to Barry?" under her breath, as though she had forgotten Kennedy's existence. "That was just a little tip-off," Ken- nedy informed her. "The rest yoi won't like. I think you'd better go "I'm afraid that's up to you. I don't say it will be easy." He lowered his voice, significantly cautious. "I saw Gage the other day. He niay have recognized me." "He doesn't even know that 1 am in Granleigh." "But he'S likely to find it nut any day, and when he does, things are go- ing to happen, If he lets either nne of us hang around in the same coun- try, after what happened last May, it will just be a present from :Santa Claus. You and I are out of the pic- ture, Nancy, and we may have to take a sudden jonirtiey any day. 1 mean to do it when I'm ready, and you'd bet- ter get a telegram from a sick aunt in Manitoba!" "I won't! I won't go and you can't snake rile," "Stine of that? 1 1'ot even if Duane should be told -what yoti told Gage er, Barry's face flinty in is tight res- traint, Kennedy's faintly jeering. Then his shoulders moved expressively. Kennedy had too much at stake to risk ruining everything by a public row with Nancy's husband. He haw- ed to Anne. "Thank you for the interview, Mad- ame, in case I do not see you again." He walked deliberately away. Anne broke the silence that was suffocat- ing. "Well?" she demanded. "I think I am the one to ask for 'explanations, but the first thing to do is to get out of this hole. Are you ready?" Anne nodded silently and went with him. "If there is any explanation that you can make, I am ready to hear it," They were home again. "What is there to say that you'd be willing to believe?" she asked bit- terly. "I went there to meet him. It was a matter of -business, as he told you. That is all." "What business could you have with FIFTY PASSENGERS INJURED 3 jr���frf3? Caught in a lake squall aboard the ferry boat Ontario II„ shown here, 50 passengers were bruised and ,out, Sept. 7. Most of the injuries were caused by the lifeboats and chairs stewing across the decks when a bad squall hit the boat nine miles off Rochester. a 'man like that? And why couldn't it be transacted decently, in your own. home?" "He wanted to see me privately," she continued. "I knew him -years ago -when he was in better circum stances. He wanted me to-do some- thing for him.' ' "What was it?". (Continued Next Week) FALL FAIR DATES The following is a list of the dates of the Fall Fairs in this part of On- tario, with the dates of some of the large provincial shows: Arthur Oct. 3, 4 Ayton Oct. 5, 6 Barrie Sept. 17-20 Blyth ....- Sept. 25, 26 Brussels Sept. 27, 28 Chatsworth Oct. 11, 12 Chesley Sept..18, 19 Clarksburg Sept. 18, 19 Desboro . Sept. 20, 21 Drayton Oct. 2, 3 Dundalk Dungannon Durham Elmvale Fordwich Fergus Sept. 25, 26 Oct. 4, 5 Oct. 2, 3 Oct. 1-3 Oct. 5, 6 Sept. 14, 15 Goderich . Sept. 18, 19 Gland Valley Sept. 28, 29 Hanover Sept: 20, 21 Holstein Sept. 27, 28 Kilsyth Oct. 4, 5 Kemble Sept. 25, 26 Kincardine Sept. 21, 22 Listowel Lucknow Markdale • O ct, 4, 5 Meaford Sept, 19, 20 Midland Sept. 20-22 Mildmay . Sept 19, 20 Mount Forest Sept. 19, 20 Netstadt Sept. 29 Owen Sound Sept,, 27,-29 Paisley Sept. 25, 26 Palmerston Sept. 28, 29 Port Elgin Oct, 9, 10' Priceville Sept. 20, 21 Ripley Sept. 25, 26 Rocklyn Oct. 1, 2 Saugeen (Indian Reserve) Chippawa Hill Oct. 1, 2' Shelburne Sept. 18, 19 Tara Oct, 2, 3' Teeswater Oct. 2, 3 Tiverton Oct. 1, 2' 'Waiter's Falls Wiarton WINGHAM Sept. 25, 26 Sept. 13, 1t Oct. 9, 100 GEMS FROM LIFE'S SCRAPBOOK CREATION "It became Him who created it to set it in order; and if he did it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature." -Newton. * * * * "A wonder it must be, that there should be any man found so stupid as to persuade himself that this most beautiful world could be produced by Sept. 19, 20 the fortuitous concourse of atoms." - Sept. 27, 28 John Ray. Professional Directory J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. 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W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Wingham J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS' THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT. Hours by Appointment. Phone 191.Wingham Directory Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840. Risks taken on all classes of in'sur- ancea at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent. Wingham. It Will Pay You to Have An EKPERT AUCTIONERR to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal 'Service Statioit Phone 174W, HARRY FRY Furniture and Funeral Service L. N. HUNKIN Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director Ambulance Service. Phones: Day 117. Night 109. THOMAS E. SMALL LXCENSEO A.UCTIONLER 20 Years' Experience in Farm Stock and Implements. Moderate ,Prices. Phone Wit.