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The Wingham Advance Times, 1929-07-04, Page 6*INGHAM ADVANCE -TIM' 4$ HIJRSDAT, DULY 4th, 1+029 Weliiuston M *tui Fire Insurance Co, Established 1840 Head Office, Guelph, Oat, Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND — HEALTH INSURANCE - AND REAL ESTATE P, 0, Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham,; - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. C. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store 14. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical, Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr, W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham C. REDMOND DR. ROBT. ILR 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. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON as COPYR16NT (927 by The trOBBS-Ma.RRJLt. tO. SYNOPSIS Chapter L -On the verge of nerv- ous collapse, due to overwork, Gay Delane, successful New York artist, seeks rest at Idle Island. She rents a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an island character, the "Captain," and his sister, Alice Andover, "administra- tor." .. Chapter II. -Gay finds the cottage is tenanted by an elderly lady, "Aunt- almiry," who consents to move to an- other abode, the `Apple Tree." Awak- ing from sleep, Gay imagines she sees the face of a Chinaman peering in tete window, but an reflection ascribes the vision to imagination. She settles: down ' in her new home, anticipating months of well-earned rest and recu- peration. Chapter III. -On an exploration of the islnad, Gay, standing on the se•t,• shore, is horrified by the appearance• cf the drifting body of a drowned roan, which she nerves herself tc- bring cbring to the shore. A bullet wound in the temple shows the manto ha re been murdered. Gay covers the dead face with a handkerchief, and makes her way to the "Captain" with the. story. Returning with him to tte shore they find no body there, and Gay's story of the incident is • t. clown to an attack of "nerves." DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store - F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy • Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL • Licensed Drugless 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. Alt business ,confidential. Phone, 601-13. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours:. 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment.. ~ Phone 191. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY' Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; we specialize in dealingwith children. Lady attendant. Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone 150 GEORGE A. SIDDAL rJ N.t)•SHRVBCIt knew it was no dream. She welted for Rand to come up to her. "Did-you---see--hint?" she wltis- pored, "The Chink? Yes. The men must he down at the club house, They al- ways bring some one along to cook, usually a Barky, but once it was a Jap, Perhaps, they're giving; all na- tions a try by turn." Then tie felt Gay's intensity in her silence, the closeness of her hand an his. "Why; Gay, what is the matter? You're not afraid of hint! Don't be afraid of a Chinkie, they never harm anybody.— Yon afraid! A woman who `lives alone, and not according to natur' and brags about it!" Although Gay realized that the Fe- males Wallace, as he affectionately called them, must no doubt long since have told Rand the story of the affair to the cove as they, knew lte he had never' referred to it by word or by su estion, It was that innate wore More will be forthcoming." "Don't forget the electricity," she reminded him gayly. "It must be a. nickel a week," And laughingly she accepted • the dingy coin he selected carefully from a handful to give her. Every day he went up the slope to the Lone Pine at sunset, that sweetest hour of the day, and sat with her in the window -seat on the west, looking down to the bay where the sky burn- ed with fresh -blown gold' and flame and amethyst, burned fiercely for "a while before it paled to ,smoking em- bers, pastel shades of rose and violet and cream. And when the embers had faded to gray ash, they went into the woods, and walked up and down beneath: the trees that gossiped to one '.another above them, and breathed deeply of the •intoxicating spices, of the forest—pine, and spruce, and fir, ',At that hour they never talked, but THE STORY CHAPTER V Randolph, Wallace indeed stood fur everything in the world of which Gay Delane professedly disapproved. It was not merely that he did not work, but he disapproved' of it on principle. He . objected vigorously to the en- thronement of Doing, which was Gay's god. He declared stoutly that labor in itself was a childish, ineffec- tive thing, that the need for it was a confession of inferiority, that joy in accomplishment was not merely the last word in selfishness, but was also the sure mark of a narrow nature,. lacking vision. He asked Gay why she had never married. ''Because there is so much to do," she cried intensely. "Because I want tc accomplish something in the world, set something done. Because I want to work, to work hard, and work well. —Why don't you?" she ended mildly. "Because life is toes rare and fine. a thing to be devoted. to the mere' grimy physical effort of doing this or doing to the east of the Little Club where. she often sat by the hour, chin in hand, gazing dreamily off to sea. Rand would not return that way. He would come by fastest State -of -Maine express, but it was the way be had gone, and so intrigued her fancy. Chin in hand, eyes misty with dreams, thoughts far away to sea in the south, she sat one day when a voice called up to her from a lower place among the rocks. "Miss Delano! May I come up?" Gay turned quickly, and her eyes contracted wonderingly. She smiled. It was the man she had directed to the landing on the fate£tll.day of her discovery in the,cove,' "Come up, by all means," she said cordially. And as he carne .up, climbing care- fully and with a caution that spoke of little custom, she gave hien ler. hand in greeting. "How in the, world did.. you know n"y name?" she asked interestedly, "Oh, Gay Delane! It was on your sketch book that day. Do tell me -I have wondered about it so many tines whatever came of it all? Did the police trace. him? Did you ever get back the little sketch, and -- Very briefly she told him of the dis- appearance of the sketch. "Are=are you sure?"he asked c "Well, i'.r. Ingram, welcome to the doubtfully; almost, it'seemed to' her, Lone Pine. There is something about quizzically. "It seems—very—well, you—something ' New • Yorkey—that ,unnatural, ,you know. Why, nobody makes me tingle for Times square." knew about it— Didn't you drop the They were chatting companionably to ourselves. 7aiey, would. talk to ` chatting of work, of each other—but. no one would tell book? Couldn't it have fallen out? over their tea, t gmy—sadness—to an outsider, one who It seems—" "Now, don't you think I am crazy," she said with some heat. "Everybody else does. . But 1 ani trusting you to trust me." gR tesy, that delicate New England re- serve which held sacred from refer- ence a subject that aright give pain. Now, suddenly, Gay wished he would speakof it, would ask her what she had seen, or thought she saw. She wished greatly po talk: free- ly with }din, to tell him the surprising things that:. had happened to her on. the island. The closeness of her clasp on his hand >rela ted. "I ain not afraid," she said easily. "I just wondered who it ryasTh."' ere was no sound from the wild growth of brush that lay so thickly. about them, no faintest crackle of dried, ; dead, crumbling needles of pine, but as Gay finished speaking, a dark shadow slipped away, almost from beneath her hand, slipped away, shadow -like,. and melted with the oth- er shadows. And neither Gay nor Rand suspected one shadow more or less among the many on either side. Evenwhen the Bo's'n was ready at last for the trip down the coast, Rand put off his departure as long as he could, and when further delay was impossible, he sent his bags aboard, and with all . in sea tress for sailing, with the two liken chosen for his crew, aboard, he slowly climbed the hill for a final breakfast with Gay at eleven o'clock. Gay was very wistful, very sad. She could not eat, although the break- fast tray for two was most enticingly arrayed. Oyer her cup of coffee her eyes ',thing to 1 ad's Lyes, very large, very deep, daddy troubled. "Rand, please eat," she begged. "You will be very hungry before night! Eat, please eat!" "Gay, I can't.. For the first time in my life, my appetite was all filled up before I began, I. hate .to go and leave you. Gay, you aren't thinking of going away the first of September, are you? I will make the trip as fast as I can, but I cannot be back by the n' �o 'before I re - Walked Up and Down Beneath the Trees. wandered. slowly here and there, stumbling sometimes over the twisted, old roots of trees or fallen logs, slid- ing over treacherous rocks, bolding hands like children, smiling at each other. One night they lingered long in the forest, so that dusk was blackening the s!iadows when they turned up be - that. Soul is too frail and too deli- hind the Little Club, in that pathless tate to be enslaved in the chains of bit of the wood. As they went on, 'daily toil for board and keep." !laughing softly, and stumbling, sud- my laughing at her,: making fun. tc one who was a sound,lkinthey camedthem, m, Half the time, she realized that' he deal without was only g g� gas walking toward them, But always she felt an undertone of swiftly, surely, toward the shore. serious conviction in what he said, All feet fell softly on the, thick pil- always she felt in hint the inherent lowing of pine needles and dry moss - yearning of pure spirit for freedom, es, but those feet that came to meet more freedom, always more Work, them made no'sound at all: As they he declared, was confining, success !was pinioninr, ambition the sternest came together, Gay looked up with keen but friendly interest to see who walked in her enchanted wood at nightfall, and then she caught her breath with a sudden startled intake. The face that ;he saw in the dusk Money to lend on first and second i mortgages on farm' and other real es- + tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel Mort - slave -driver in. the universe.` Only in thought, desire, the soul was free Gay chafed restlessly at his easy idolence, his serene and apparently ages on swcn .0 ,,.� N ..,... ... -_- ., A few farms on hand for sale or to i, Cent. on easy- terms.. Phone 78.'T,ucknow, Ont. cJ THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD } A thorough knowledge of Faun Stock Phone 281, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON` AUCTIONEER i'hone 6131•6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where and satisfaction guaranteed. George Walker, Corrie, can arrange slates. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS` f is MacDonald Block, Wingham Office AWALKER A. J. 1.f A FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. . Walker J Lieensed Buncral Director anrl' Embalmer, Office Phone 106, Res, Phone 224, "tie Funeral Coach, �atcst l..ii'cto'usi n ',Was sharply, familiar, unmistakable, a e :could work,. that, on occasion, he thin little face that showed: yellow in id work, desperately, both hard and the gloaming, like yellow parchment,' perturbable calm. She knew that ell, with mind, with soul, with body. nith,narrow, slopin almond e.y es, and lid more than that, he liked it. .It beneath'one of them a faint shining -as only the compulsion to work that .mark, like a seam in the. parchment, to decried. where, a scar seared the flesh, the face The days flew away like enchanted of a yellow, little old Chinaman. Inngs. Gay had never been: so hap- In the dusk, as site had sten it be - first. You would t g turn, would you?' "There's really nothing to hurry inc away," she said reasonably. "1. like it here, and I do need more rest, and —they say—the weather is very nice in September. "The weather! Are you staying for the weather?" Gay shook her head. No—for you." Rand stood up suddenly, and Gay, too, rose slowly. Hand in hand they crossed the pleasant room to the door that opened.down upon the bay where the Bo's'n waited for Rand, to take hiin away. "I kissed you when I came the first time," he said softly, "wouldn't it rather hurt your feelings if I .went away—less affectionately?" Gay nodded. "Terribly. I should think you didn't like it." Rand took her in his arms, and' kissed her, not once, but many times. "Were you • ever in love before, Rand?" Gay asked softly., "Well --yes," he admitted hesitating- ly. esitating- l *. "Er—weren't you?" 3 "Will — yes," she acknowledged, {I smiling faintly. "But never like. this,. Rand, never like this. Her cool, firm, :slender fingers ca- rested his hair, touched his lips, crad- led the curve of his chin. "Rand," :hoe whispered. "Rand," At three o'ek,ek,. with smiling trent- ' us- lip;, and tears etrearnint; down i althour;li'she neglected her sacred fort she am it again, and an the fare her :face, hot laughing, (lay s iceed in I shall stay a little longer—a week or two perhaps. While the weather i.s nice. I like it better now the sum - vier crowd is gone. Just the nice,. good religious natives are left, And me, I like it. But I did not expect to see yoaliere again." "1 wish I could say 1 had. come only.. to see you," he said, "but I ant afraid I` dare not go so far. As a matter of fact, I have learned that they are an- ticipating rather a land boons around here in the next two or three years, arid. my partner and I are hoping to pick up something for a song ,and sell it after a bit for a -well, a grand op- era. I am scouting out the land." "How interesting. How very inter- esting!" : Gay stood up' suddenly. "You offered me tea before, and I 're- fused. I ant bolder now. Will you tea with lite? . And tell me about it?" They passed back over the reeks and into the woods, skirting the little club, in silence. "1 shall have to take' a peep at some of your private papers, I think," Gay said smilingly, as she led the way into the Lone Pine. "Or shall 1 call you ,Say,?„ "Ingram, Ronald Ingrain—I beg face, the light' faded suddenly froiu.' her eyes, the flush died in her cheeks. : 't All in ,a moment she was smaller, old- er, very tired, A little later Mr, Ingrain. went away with many warm and, pleasant words, and with a last light lingering touch'on Gay's hand, Their, eyes suet„ understandingly, :as they smiled .fare- well, • When Gay returned to Auntal- miry she was sitting wilted slightly in, the chair, and her face was sad. "Gay, you will excuse me, won't you? For coating like that, when you had company. L saw hint on the piaz- za -a stranger -and I thought maybe Buddy had. conte." "Buddy? 1)o you mean Rand?" "No, Buddy—my, son, Buddy." ' "Auntalmiry, your son! Have you' a son? Oh. I didn't,knew you had a. son. VVhy didn't,you tell me?" "Yes, Buddy, my son. I didn't tell( you, dcarie, because—we'aren't like' that. We just hold things in our hearts, sad thing's, and say nothing,. The glad. things, too, perhaps,'toot inucli., We don't. scatter our feelings,. good orr `bad; we shut them, I thought 'perhaps some one else had. your pardon, I' seem to feel that I tole you:, know you so well I quite forgot you „NA No, one on this island has cud not know my name.". ever mentioned. your son—Buddy. I never heard of hint before." "We are like that)" she said'faint- ly. "We hold. one another's secrets "I will trust you," he said quickly. "I do. It was bad luck all the way, round,' and I'm sorry. I wish I had taken the sketch from you by main. force. I hate that worst of all, los- ing the' sketch. Do you remember the hand—very fine—" "Don't,"she''said. Don't talk of it. I should have done something for that poor boy—but what could I do!" "Don't, think of it. 'Lee's' talk, of something else. -Are you remaining long on the island? It seems very quiet here now. The'summer people have gone, have they not?" In spite of the best efforts, feeling the curious interest of his eves and his words, Gay felt her face flush for her ingering. "I was worn out," she explained quickly, "I had to have a long rest. invasee and brush How could she tirm uE a moment, the duel. received the lasgheet'as•ivadgrav of the f,r,ne Rime ork with Rand Sprawling in the win him again, nriiselessly, a", it had res- and blew'a Ilia; t' this wind as Ct.aiid Bow -seal at ' her side, brown hand ceived him before. )ruching her hand, gray eyes holding Iler eyes? Every day he worked faithfully on the Bo's'n, lleinis' yacht, worked very bard for a few hours to ,pare himself more time to he with Iter, appearing at the Ione fine every inotning promptly at eleven o'clock, the hour of her late breakfast, which vas breakfast and luncheon in one. So that is bow one li e y s ort noth- ing a year," she said to him one day, laughing, "Well, 1 ain relieved. I know at :least that you will never starve." r ' The next mrnrnins, he handed '.her a pound of the hest coffee obtainable at' the Pier. Grocery store. He was very ,haughty.. "I may be poor but I have s my pride," he said.. "My coffee! And. when it is, gone;kindtyd notify ;rocs • Gay had not be any oceans it r,.,,:rt ten her first night on the island;. when she lay alone in the cottage on the fringe of the woods in her great ex- haustion of mind and physical weari- ness; when, sleeping she had seemed to feel a gaze upon her, anti .tirrcd to see, or think' site saw, the thin yel- low face in the gloaming;; and had turned again to her sleep, saying k dreamily it was but a dream, She had, however, made inquiry casually, and had been told there were no resi- dent Chinese on the island, but that, on rare occasion,. One came on 'errand from Portland, for the delivery of packages, perhaps, or a day's work, It was only as in a dream that she had remembered the face. Bet now, with sudden fear, Gay tiirricd the }lr,'s'n reset, to, +;,,:a. CHAiTI.Iis. VI first of F,Y fstei b r eaUle the liaralsixi ,up of tli. -summer r.r,l• (My. {lay nage gratefof for ' the ilrence after the .flavor Fif yr,'unp voir;Yee twanging nkle114:'i, 'rr'hif:uiti r phopess.' Adr,rtiltle:, waitiri;., at'me at the top, ,,f Ow hill, for Rand tri vane! .. s� f', .1 M F't ➢ a 7 p ff �:7rrxit:tarn,...,}i. �a. tr tri, L' I eentimeht i sg. vague xre: a prophetic rophetic geetuni that all her futile?: life, would •'i etbin iiko that,twaiting fear. hc; � Jr , W� ,. Rand, she stilled it a r., ,.,, , ltttsly. She r a i � t' 4 4 doubly stored to he :.fel, that t �a Y alone in awaiting }lits return, that of It the summer colrrn )(lies alone rt - a e Yr ma;inedr waiting. llrere was a. 'point carr ttte rr;cks aiins and interests, the big things of life, when Auntalmiry carne to the door. She came intentionally, know- ing there was a guest; Gay knew that at '.'once, realized it with . a vague re- sentment, although knowing it was not like the little old woman to in- trude. She was dressed for the oc- casion, in her best black'Sunday silk, with her coral cameo at her throat. There was a flush of excitement in her cheeks, and as she stepped into the room, not glancing at Gay, she. swept Ronald Ingram with an eager' breathless gaze. "Ori, Mrs. Bridges, this is Mr, In- gram," Gay said lightly. "Mrs. Bridges, for company" she explained laughingly. "Auntalmiry to all us Lome -folks. Sit down, Auntalmiry; tea's niceand hot." "Yes -yes, I will." Auntalmiry sat down stiffly, her eyes still intent on the young man who had crossed the room to stand by her" chair as she sank into it. And intent upon his didn't belong."' "Was it a sadness :Auntalmiry, have ing the son?" Auntaliniry's eyes glowed •suddenly, but her voice remainedmild and even. "It was heaven," she said gently. "But he went away—and nevercame.' back" (Continued Next Week.) RHEUMATISM? Sciatica? Neuralgia? You can hove relief. Mrs. T. K. Sheehan of Windsor, Ont, was !helpless with Inflaitnmatory Rheumatism. She couldn't even move her eyes, and spent nearly $1000 for treatments. She writes: "Three boxes of T -R -C's made me eom well": T-R-C'sareequal- lygu.od. for Sciatica, Neuralgia, Neuritis and Lumbago. Quick. Safe. No harmful drugs. 50e & $1 at your druggist's.- nil 98 TEMPLETON'S - RSC RHEUMATIC CAPSULES GIRLS HAVE ROCKY RANCH CAMP • Lett hand top inset: tit. Harriett E. Cooke. ))liths hand trip inset: ]Vose Mary E Cutlet. Centres . Luke Windernori ttniiMt( Conn for Oirtu. Lower left° David'Ctiompson bteruorial Hall.,Lower right: Waiter Nixon, noted trail rider. 'The, Lake Windermere Bungalow bined with instruction in art. The younger • eQne fitinn., v staff inc1udee instructors in rid- part in last year's Trail Ride to, the Lake of the Figueroa Gaete.�s whieh 'is In the Lake Windermere• district. and have eat:teed Welter. Nixon, the well-known hunter and' sruide to supervise the trail rid ire expedition which wilt ford) part of the eourse in, ratio-ers't for than girls. The atilt ltandnlph Broom, Lieutettan.t-Gavernot of British Columbia, has his summer ;home in the neighbourhood and is taking a keen interest in the movetnetitk Camp i i was the first of Ja p wh eh its kind established in the Cana- dian Rockies will this year be transformed into a Ranch -Camp for girls under )'lie direction of Mins Mary E. `Cutler, (if Minneap- olis, Mid Dr. '[Iaxriett E. Cooke, of Chicago, '+irho have h4d consider- aiillx eitpetiWlee lit the management of such Camps and have selected this as an ideal: Spot for girls de- siring an active outdoor life, coii- ing, swilnniing and camp-et'aft, in addition to teachers of handicrafts and painting, and the course will include partic station in the annual four-day cross ••ountry ride of the Trail Riders tib the Canadian Rockies. Both Miss Cutler and Dr, 'Cooke have spent several sum- mers in this region end are en- thusiastit about the hesilt`igiving value of ranch-eamp life in these Alpine regions of Canada or the