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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-06-25, Page 6PAGE SIX i Ingham Advance -Times W. Logan Craig - Publisher Published at. WINGHAIVI; ONTARIO .Every Thursday MMVlorning Subscription rates Cane year $2.40,. Six months $1,00, in advance,,. To U. S. A, $2.60 per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- .iaince at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont, 4. MT+ -1R 002ZNS, eASt s J. W. DODD 'Two doors south of Field's Buttner shop. VIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 'P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 W1NGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingharn Successor -to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone 'ngham Ontario J. A. MORTON ETC. TER . BARRISTER, , W ingharnz Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store. H. W. 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ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC .AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours:2-5, 7-8, or by appointment.. phone 191. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingharr RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorri . Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed,, DRS. A. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office .MacDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER F l'I? YITUI$E AND 1 UNE7E A SERVICE A. J. 100311apr Licetised Ptineral Director and E,tribaimer. °ffice Phone 106, Pies, Phone 224. 1alett Limousine ttiYewal Cnaeh. T E WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES cormziGHT I73I sv THE AVTP$OR SYNOPSIS Rackruff Motors hire Rowena to accompany Peter on a nation-wide tour in their roadster as an advertis- ing stunt, At the last minute Little Bobby is engaged to act' as chaper- on. They are waiting for Bobby to show up to make the start, Peter himself showed up to good advantage. From ten until eleven o'clock the photographers snapped and the re- porters took notes. First Rowena sat at the wheel, then Peter, then the two .together, each bravely trying to. conceal the worm of fear that knew- ed at the core of his being --fear that the chaperon had changed her mind and •would not come, Eleven o'clock —eleven thirty, The reporters were getting restive, Mr. Rack hadhis watch in his hand and Mr. Ruff was takingbusiness off at one side of the room., A taxicab pulled up at the side en- trance and a little brown mouse of a girl slippedout and crept timidly in through the rear door and sidled up to the cashier's cage. She had to stand on tiptoe to be seen from within. "Where will I find Miss Rostand?" she asked s d and her voice was a rip- pling low whisper. "What name, please? Are you from one of the papers?" asked the cashier briskly. "No. :1'm Miss Lowell—Roberta Lowell. I—I am the chaperon for the motor tour," explained the little brown mouse with aroll of brown eyes and a display of deep dimples. "`Oh, Mr. Rack," called the cashier, "here's the chaperon." The little brown mouse looked ready to sink into the floor in shy to :expect of them. Rowena said that for her part she always worked better under pressure, that something- in her responded strongly to hard driving, and that she enjoyed working when she was breathless, almost panting with haste. Peter, in that annoyingly gentle, al- most disinterestedly lazy voice of his, said he didn't; said he couldn't work at all unless he had a breathful of fresh air in his lungs and quiet. comfort in his heart. "And of course," said Rowena cut- tingly, "we will do it your way, Nat- urally you think good pictures are the most important part of the whole business," "Of course," said Peter simply. Rowena was speechless with rage. She was glad she had always hated artists anyhow, it made hating Peter now so much niore natural. He was telling himself that he was very glad Rowena was pretty. It would be pleasant painting her. He didn't care in the leastabout her disposition. This was a business trip. It just goes to show the .sort that Peter . was, that he never even sus- pected that Rowena was furious, A sudden gulping sob close at hand startled him from his 'comfortable revery. He looked sharply at Row- ena, who sat rigidly erect and stony - faced beside him, blue eyes glitter- ing ice cold, , "Are—are you crying?" he asked doubtfully. "Me?—Most certainly not! I hope you don't think for a minute you could make me cry!" ejaculated Row- ena. Peter listened. It came again, low and unmistakable, the gulping sob of a weeping woman. They looked back over their shoulders. The little "I—I'm lonesome," contessed hobby, in a sad, small voice. confusion. as the tide of the photogra- brown chaperon was slumped deep in pliers, reporters, automobile execu- the rumble seat, her head bowed low, tives and salesmen—and Rowena and small shoulders rising and 'falling Peter, you may be sure — surged with great sobs. Peter' pulled to the swiftly toward her, side of the road and stopped the car, "The chaperon!" ejaculated Mr. and both he and Rowena leaned back Rack, through the window. "The chaperon?" echoed. Mr. Ruff. "Why, what's the matter, -darling?" She had told Rowena she was asked Rowena solicitously. "Don't twenty-three years old, but standing you feel well?" timidly as she did at barely five feet The small brown hear shook vigor - two, wth little brown curls framing ously from side to side. her dimpled brown face, she did not ,, -I'm lonesome,'' confessed a sad at first glance bear testimony to such small voice, "C-Carter—didn't come weight of years. Her small hands to see me off." fluttered nervously with gloves and chain. Her big brawn'eyes gazed "C -Carter?" asked Rowena and out, appalled and. appealing,_ at the"Peter in chorus. crowd that surged her way, "We're engaged. I thought surely "Are—are you Roberta Lowell?" he would come to see me off, and he gasped Rowena. didn't. I wish I hadn't come, I feel "No wonder they call you Bobby," very badly, Maybe I'd better go said Peter. back." Rowena rallied first. "Never mind, Stricken. each with sudden fear. that never mind!" she announced with a the chaperon might fail them -and quick assumption of severity. "This they no farther west than the .Hurl' is Bobby, and. I'm the chaperon." son' River—Rowena and Peter, got A few minutes later, the Rackruff hurriedly out and ran back to her,` roadster swept into Broadway and standing on either side while Rowena turned south, and the: cheers of the tenderly wiped the .tear -stained face. assembled witnesses rattled the prate- with a wisp of handkerchief and Pet. glass windows of the show -rooms. er patted both small brown hands `"You were right, Peter," confessed with great vigor. Rowena kindly, when they slowed for "I wrote him a very formal note,,' the first traffic light. "We should Bobby went on, "and said good -by, certainly have looked her over," and told hien he wouldn't need to The were rolling bother takhi me out:places anymore They g steadily along g the jersey side of the river :when .Ito- and sending,me presents end flowers, wena and Peter had their first argu- for I was going on a long motor trip merit. Rowena considered. the ideal with some clear friends and wouid be plait for them to tear along at a high gone a long time, and was starting rate of speed,' stopping for nothing on Monday morning at ten o'clock until they reached the Rocky Moun- from the Rackruff salesroom. on tains. Broadway, and of course 1 thought And Peter didn't agree with her. he would be there to see me off, and Peter's idea was to drive along at a he wasn't." fair speed, He said that if they tore Grief' quite overcame her, and she furiously along over roads, good and would have' slid dear off the rumble bad, through bailing heat and. chill- seat into the bottom of the car if ing rain, they would reach :a pofrit of Peter hadn't caught her firmly and interest, tired; cross and worn out, drawn her: back. They aren't worth crying about." "You musn't feel like that," said Peter gently. "He was probably so ashamed he couldn't bear to face you, That's the way I am. The more ash ained I feel the more—the more—" "The more away you stay, I sup- pose," said Rowena coldly. "Exactly," assented Peter. "But he knows how dangerous mo- tor trips are," sobbed Bobby. "He knows I'm likely to be killed any minute, or at least maimed for life." IAll alike," repeated Rowena grim- ly. "That's probably why he didn't come," said Peter comfortingly. "He realized that at thought of you going away into such terrible danger he would lose self-control and break down before all those people. And then think how he'd feel. Bobby thought of it. "But Carter's not like that," she said. "I don't believe he'd break down. " He's not at all the breaking -down kind of a pian. He's got red hair-" "Well, he might pretend he broke down," insisted Peter. "All pretense, every one of them,". declared Rowena sweepingly. "It's terribly lonesome, going off on such a long trip without having Carter there to be ashamed of him- self and feel sorry," said Bobby. "I tell you what, darling," suggest- ed Rowena brightly. "You come ar- ound here and sit with Peter and let him cheer you up. He's very good company. It's too lonesome. for you back there alone." "But you said I had to sit in the rumble seat!" "Well, I've ; changed .my mind. You see, I thought then that Peter and I would want to talk business and discuss our plans, and I. never dream- ed that every time I made a sugges- tion it would just lead to a bitter ar- gument." "Why, I didn't argue with you," protested Peter. "I'd much rather sit in the runibie seat where I can think my thoughts in peace and not have my most inno- cent ideas contradicted before they are out of my mouth," continued Ro- wena. "Wiry, I wasn't contradicting you," protested Peter. But Rowena insisted, so Peter help- ed Bobby gently 'out of the rumble seat and was just turning to give Ro- wena a hand when he saw that she was already in, sitting very erect, chin high, and eyes extremely bine. So he got in behind the wheel and they started off again. Rowena settled back yin the rum- ble seat with a malicious little grin. After listening • to Bobby's chatter about Carter foran hour, she leaned forward. "Do you mind if I close this win - clow?" she asked sweetly. "Im.'try- ing to think out the plot to a story and 1 must have perfect silence to decide whether I want to have Bob- by's Carter commit the murder or be committed." From that moment the rumble seat was Rowena's own. She seemed to take a morbid pleas- ure in providing comfort for her pri- vacy, and often smiled to herself in complacent and not unmalicious sat- isfaction when she heard the steady roll of Bobby's voice regaling Peter withvivid accounts about Carter and. their last quarrel which caused her to apply for the trip. Peter was in possession of a coo picte biography of Carter long' before they reached Buffalo, where they were to pay their first official visit.) to the Rackruff salesrooms, and where he was to snake his first pic- ture of the roadster and. Rowena. For all the seclusion of the rumble seat, Rowena was able to break in on Bobby's love -affair long enough to voice her disagreement with Peter's plans when she wanted to, which was pretty often. It went without Saying ghat they dict. not agree about the. ere Heist management f a of the trip, p. Rackruff Motors, Inc., had agreed to. ray all expenses for the car en route, and had allowed Peter and Rowena joint salary of one hundred dollars t week—an "expense allowance, it was rerilly. Peter's idea of the way to carry on vas obviously the simplest and nl.ost atural. He said he would pay ex- x:nses for both' of thein and then elivide equally with Rowena whatever ars left of the hundred dollars at the nd of each week, Rowena said it wouldn't do. In the end, Peter agreed to divide ach week's allowance with her ini- rneTliately upon receipt every Monday Horning, each 'thereafter paying his we bilks, and saving what he could tom the amount, a c 0 hence tinable to turn out the high* "Don't you care, darling," said a class work that R.aekrtlff had a right Rowena. Men are all like that, f is 4 5A, Thursday, June 25th, 1931 Tonight is the family re -union.: It has been a weekly event ever since the young folk scattered: to various towns, each to make his or her own way in the world. It started when Dick left to work in a neighbor- ing city. Dick was full of enthusiasm, but apt to be just, a little bit wild. So Dad started the habit of calling him once a ` week just to keep' him under the parental influence. Then Helen was married and moved away, and mother must needs make weekly voice visits with her. And now Betty has taken a position in another town. Her voice comes -home each week too. Dad and mother gather all the news and pass it on to the others. Itkeeps the family together — and the cost of the three evening calls is less than 'a dollar. Evening rates on "Anyone" .(station -to -station) calls be- gin at 7 p.m, (local time). Just give "Long Distance" the number you want it speeds up the service. If you don't know ,the distant num- ber, "Information" will look it up for you. LONG, LokG ut5 A f T H G. xELEPHOru Even before they reached Buffalo he realized it would have been ,money in his pocket to have stuck to his original idea. Certainly it was no great drain on the expense account buying food for Rowena. While mo- toring in the fresh air made both him and Bobby ravenously hungry, so that they wished to eat often, fully and expensively, it seemed to have no effect whatever upon Rowena, who ate so rarely and so little that Bobby accused her of trying to 're- duce. 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