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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-02-11, Page 6PAGE SIX Wingham Advance-Tirues. Published at. WINQIIAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday MVlorning W. Logan Craig - Publisher ubscription rates (mne year $2.00. Six months $1.00, in advance To U. S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ,A.BNNlER COSENS,;,Agent, Wingham .�. W. DODD :Two . doors south of Field's Butcner shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH .INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHA1VI, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham. Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Banister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND 3d.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Block Office in Chisholm josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. I iOWSON DENTIST Office over John 'Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH j. All Diseases Treated 'Office adjoining residence nest to :Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 v.m. A.R.& F. E,DUVAL Licensed DIuglesi Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, .Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago.. Out of .town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone 300. J. 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, Wingham RICHARD L.JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, "and satisfaction guaranteed. DR. A. W.IRWIN DENTIST --- X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. 3, WALKER Licensed I"uneral 'Director and Ernbalnaer. Office Phone 106. •Res, Phone 224. � n Coach. .,tttest 1.rfnousine Funeral THS WINGIA�1 ADVANCE -TIMES fYo Thursday, February 11, 1932 SYNOPSIS At half past ten Jocelyn got -up and locked her door. She took her Fresh from a French convent, Jo- celyn Harlowe returns to New York to her socially -elect mother, a relig- ious, ambitious woman. The girl is hurried into an 'engagement with the wealthy Felix .Kent, Her father, Nick Sandal, surreptiously enters the girl's home one night. He tells her he used to call her Lynda Sandal. The girl is torn by her desire to see life in the raw and to become part of her another's society. Her father studies her surroundings. Lynda visits her father in his dingy quarters. She finds four men playing cards when she arrives. One of them, Jock Ayleward, her father tells her, is like a son to him, but warns the girl he is a trifler. Lynda pays a second visit to her father and Jock takes her home, on the way stopping with her at an un- derworld cabaret. Jock asks her to dance. Jock gets into a fight with a gang- ster who intends on dancing with Lynda. He then takes Lynda home. Later she mention. Felix's name to Jock and Ayleward's face displays his demoniac hatred of the millionaire. jock tells • Lynda that Felix caused him to be sent to jail unjustly by fixing up his report on a mine. Lynda says she doesn't believe his story. She pays another visit to her father and goes to a cabaret with him and dances with jock, who suddenly stops and tells her he is going to take her right home. He had seen Felix dancing with another woman. Felix tells Jocelyn that Jock is a worthless scamp. Later Lynda tells jock she does not believe in his in- nocence but will try and find, thru Felix, some letters Jock claims will clear his name. Marcella finds her jewels stolen and hires a private detective who un- covers the mysterious prowlings of Lynda, without knowing who she is. Lynda suspects her father. Jocelyn decides to marry Felix quickly and preparations for the wed- ding are made. She asks him to tell her the combination of his safe, as a mark of his confidence in her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Spiritually? To know the combin- ation of an office safe?" "Well, psychologically then. It wculd give me •a feeling of knowing you better, of being in your confiden- ce, of being—" her voice fell, "real- ly your wife . . Felix lifted the hair from one of disguise from its hiding place and dressed herself. • She ran her fingers through her hair, For this one last time she must wear the dangerous semblance of that "conspicuous young woman." As she stepped briskly out along the street past the awning of the apartment house she thought that u roan emerged from the alley she had just left and walked, not very rap- idly behind her, Arrived at Nick's place, she ran up the stairs and entered Nick's room. jock rose, He was dressed in a dark suit of rough tweed and took up a cap from the floor. "Speak low," said Lynda. "Is Nick here?" "No, I took him to a hospital for treatment. He'll be able to get out in a few days," "I'm glad he, isn't here. I've been followed. A man's across this alley in a doorway. My mother has en- gaged a private detective to find out who took her jewels. He must have seen me ;come out. In fact I know that I've been noticed already in this get-up. jock, what shall we do? If we go out together now we'll both be arrested." "Wouldn't it be better for me to put on some of Nick's clothes? They'll be looking for a woman." "Good thought. You could wear them pretty well." His eyes irnper- sonaliy measured her. ' He took her into the bedroom, tumbled a suit from the closet to the bed, got a shirt, a tie and a soft hat and left her. The clothes weren't such a bad fit. The felt hat, because of her thick hair, was a tight squeeze but she pulled it down. When she came out Jock smiled at her appearance, "You'll do, I guess, on a foggy richt one -one -one -seven. Six turns night. Where are we going when we to the right. Turn to left." The ' CROWELL ROBLISHING, ever, in a sweet muted voice, "It hurts me; It hurts the , that you love me." "I'm a" fool, Lynda. Not even pri- son has cured me of folly. I hope I'll die in the gutter groping. Great things , . like the possession of ycur love." "You mustn't hope." He drew one of her handsquickly over to his lips and let it go. "Good -by, Lynda Sandal," he said. "As long as you live, I'll hope." In the darkness she took that hand he had kissed up to her mouth and set her teeth upon it. The action kept her from speech and tears. It was more difficult than Jocelyn had foreseen, to locate the spot they wanted, But finally the found it. At thz foot of the fire escape they stood together looking up. "You must wait here, Jock. I know just where the safe stands. I have memorized the combination. Let me have your torch." . "I must go up with you. You do not imagine that I'd let you take this chance alone?" "You have to. If I am cought I've only to let them know who I am• in order to be released. But if you are found in there ..." She took the light from him and felt the ice of his fingers. She counted the windows and found the one to Felix's office. It moved up silently and she let herself down upon the office floor. She, went softly over to the safe. The electric torch, as she pressed it, gave out a round white spot that startled her with its precise revela- tion of the glittering knob ,of the s, • Slee repeated to herself: "Three; eight afe... three turns 'to the lefit, eight -five -two. Two turns to the leave here?" "Have you one of those small searchlights, Jock?" "An electric torch? Sure thing." "Then take it. We're going to Felix's office downtown." Three blocks away from the tall narrow tenement they took a taxi- cab. Not many days before, Jocelyn Harlowe had driven through the dia- mond air of noon along one of the glittering avenues of the gay town in Kent's smooth -running limousine, while his voice, eager and possessive, exulted in her ear. She could not avoid his lips, his touch. Now, plunging and jerking in the narrow To lie so in a man's arms, and to cajole his secrets from him is only to prove my confidence in him, thought Jocelyn. the delicate close -set ears and bend- ing his mouth to it whispered, "Three -eight ... three turns to the left . . .. eight -five -two .. two turns to the right. One -one -one -seven ... six Turn turns right, to the left. Did you get that, my sweet foolish wife?" "Say it again, Felix!" 'f -Te repeated it and she in her brain of a schoolgirl conned it over and over, sick with her deception, To lie so: in a man's arms' and to cajole his secrets from hire for what might be .. no, she trusted lira. "It is to prove my confidence in him . . This conscience must be silenced! It is only to prove his honor in such a fashion that he may never know it has been questiancd; to rid myself of this -Other .. this Other °for- ever and forever—and forever." Next day she wrote a line to jock: "If I succeed in arranging matters as I hope, I'll coma to you tonight about eleven o'clock, i shall have to ask your help." This she marled with her own hand. Pleading weariness, she asked Felix to stay, away that evening and. to het relief he deckled that he would take advantage of this dismissal for one of his flying business trips. stuffy darkness of the taxi, she cross- ed a city lurid and confused, whose air was a wandering marsh, light ac- ross her face and hands, while the man beside her crouched forward, si- lent and controlled. She said to herself, "After this ride I shall never be alone with hint again. And I love him. And I have never given him a word of kindness, He will remember me. only as one of many wounds." And the longing to speak softly to him took possession of her almost irresistibly. Jock spoke: "I won't see you again," he said in his subdued voice. "You won't forgive me—no matter what is found -something or noth- ing, I can't help hopingthat we'll find what is bound, . I. suppose, to hurt your. happiness. But'I must say two things to you; One—That I think you are brave. Very few wo- men would have the courage and the honor to search out such a truth. And the other is ..: I love you. It can't hurt you to know that. Lynda, I love you." She did not answer. The murky city went past their silence in blur- red light:. Speech of any sort wotrtd be disloyalty.She said at last, how - thick door opened noiselessly. The small compartments were la- belled, not with letters or with num- bers, but with hierolyphics which Mean nothing, She took out bundles of papers and stealthily examined them.. Suspense ate at her vitals. She could not tell, with the failure of each inspection, whether her heart leaped up or dropped. Jock's eyes, Felix's cl'ear profile both were haunt- ing her. She endured not only : her own horrible suspense and fear of discovery but jock's, where he stood down there in the chill fog, against the wall, waiting. No matter what his delusion, this search meant. He really hoped; he really feared. It was not, for him, only a test, a mad periment; it was simply—his life, or his death. It was shameor clean justification, a prison sentence wiped out, a curse lifted. She thought she had imagined the words but her eyes had really picked them off a folded sheet. She began to shake. "Algernon Talley, Lost Valley Mine." "I agree to give your engineer the kind of look -in you suggest, provid- ed you conte across with the mill- ion." . Her sick eyes ran down the page. She saw his name, "Jock Ayle- ward." Another letter: "I've got him, where we want hint. It wasn't such easy doing either. He's a shrewd chap and knows his job. But I kept him away front a shaft and I let him, go over-" It was true. Felix Kent had baited a trap for an unsuspecting friend, a boy he'd played with. Felix Kent had sent his scapegoat, an innocent man, to prison. The proof lay in her two cold hands. .Zt would mean, for Kent, destruc- tion. By her treachery. And he had chosen her to be his wife. This was something that she could not do.. She could tell him when he returned tomorrow, she could leave It to him. His face vividly replied with its shallow eyes and its hard mouth, "1 nide life with a spur and a whip. and I ride over fallen men," If she told hint he would ride her down, And jock would' be trampled deeperintothe bloody dust. Suppose that she hid the papers and threaten- ed Felix Dent , ; , No. That was all Moonshine, all a girl's faritasy. No way to handle shrewd and scheming Wren. She must either put the papers back and be silent for all her life, loyal to a knave, or she must stand up now and go over to that window' and then down to the honorable man who waited at the bottom of the wall, the honorable man who had served a'prison sentence while Felix enjoyed a million dollars in the suns,. She stood up, closed the safe and went over to the winduw. "MAY 1 USE THE 'PHONE?" p 1 E>lax r��s �# Britain as Floating Pay Station, • RAradeira got a new thrill recently when telephone IVA communication was established between that pleasant island and London, England for the first time." The occasion was the arrival of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain at Funchal on a cruise around the world. This magnificent new liner has the most powerful ship -to -shore telephone system in the world and Madeirans were not slow to recognize a chance to make island history. During her stay there, lying at anchor just beyond the famous Loo Rock, the Empress was host to many visitors. Amongst these were two who casually asked, "May I use the 'phone?" Just as casually the telephone operator of the ship called up London and put thecallers through over 1,323 miles of water. Reports from the Empress of Britain, now at Colombo, Ceylon, indicate that the wireless telephone is a popular feature of the ship. The longest distance yet reported is Haifa, Palestine, to Montreal. The 4iner works on a daily schedule with Canada, through the Canadian Marconi stations at Yamaehiche and Drummondville, Quebec, and the Bell, long distance board in Montreal. Photos show: Empress of Britain at Madeira with Loo Rock in the foreground, and a typical bedroom fitted with telephone. As she leaned out she heard a sound behind her terribly close. With no further hesita'ion she threw the heavy bundle of letters in their band. down to jock Ayleward. "Get out. Be quick," she called urgently. She had swung her leg ov- er the sill when heavy hands clutch- ed at her and pulled her back and a weight crashed down upon her blind- ed head. In the bedroom of a Washington hotel Felix Kent spent what was left. of an active and wakeful night. The spur of opportunity and of antagon- istic forces, these were not the only fevers in his blood. His marriage was but a few hours ahead of him and the image of Jocelyn kept his pulses stirred, After day break he fell asleep and was awakened by the sharp call of ,a telehpone beside his bed. His watch. on the table showed him that it was already eight o'clock. The voice' was Becky Deal's. "Is this you, Mr. Kent? Michael Rory has just telephoned from the police station. , It seems . that your office was entered last night. He caught a boy leaving by the window. I don't believe 'anything's been tak- committed himself to an en." Felix oath. (Continued next week.) 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