Zurich Herald, 1938-07-07, Page 2M.akeBeIieve
by Ruth Harley.
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Synopsis;
Maris Trevor is discouraged be-
cause Rod' O'Rorke spends all his
money developing an invention
which he hopes will provide an in-
come so that they can marry.
Maris thinks they should enjoy
the present rather than deny
themselves for the future. She
becomes uncertain of her love for
Rod. Perhaps there would be more
happiness with someone else . . .
CHAPTER XI
"No, thank you," she said, and
kept on walking.
"We needa you. Come, we no
hurt yen. Alla we ask is you stop
and get farmer give us some gas.
Yes?"
"Sure?" she asked, knowing as
she looked at them that if she re-
fused they would make her go
with them anyway.
"Certainly," insisted the man,
while the other evil -looking occu-
pant of the ear said, "That's all
we want, miss. Can't go much
farther without gas, and there
ain't any stations around. Some-
times farmers ain't so generous,
even if you offer them money.
But they'd do it for you, I guess."
"Well, I'm afraid they'll think
I'm a tramp, for I certainly did
have an accident and my dress is
a wreck."
A moment later she got in the
car and they started coasting
down hill. As they neared the end
of the hill, they saw a trim farm-
house and slowly came to a stop
before it.
A Double -Crosser
"Now, miss, you go and tell
them you want some gas, as you
met with an accident, and you
want to get to town. Then, after
yoti get it we drive you five miles
more and let you go. Yes? You
understand?"
But as Maris went up the path
she was filled with a strange mis-
giving. What sort of men were
these, she had been with? Why
didn't one of then go and speak
to the farmer? They'd been quite
decent to her, put her in the
back seat and paid Iittle attention
to' her.
But every now and then they
had whispered together. Once she
heard one say, "He's a double-
crosser, all right." And later the
other man had said, "Well, what
would you expect when he's work-
ed out this schemes to trick his..
o j father re
Then they had been 'silent so
long that Maris wondered if they
would ever speak again. They did
twice—once to say emphatically
to her, "Now, remember, when
they ask you where the accident
happened, you tell them, 'On the
long road'."
Again one whispered in a loud
voice, "Guess young Stan's got the
fright of his life, trying to put us
off like that. The nerve, letting
us do all the dirty work and not
even wanting to pay for it, but
insisting on having all the profits.
Well, we won't let him off so eas-
ily next time." And the dark -
complexioned man had flasher' his
companion an evil glance.
Bait For a Trap
As Maris walked up to the door
of the house, she felt the concen-
trated gaze of several pairs of
eyes on her. But in answer to her
knock, the door was opened just
a little crack, while Maris could
hear the shuffle of heavy shoes on
the floor.
"Can you let us have some gas
so we can get to town?" she asked.
"We've had an accident."
"You have?" said the farmer,
opening the door a bit wider.
"Maybe you'd rather come in and
get patched up here. I'II send one
of the boys out to the car."
Before she realized it, she was
inside the house, surrounded by
several county policemen. She.
tried to back away. What had she
landed in now, she wondered.
"Don't be seared, miss," said
one of the men, "but if you value
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your life, tell us the truth, Ilow
far have you come in that car?"
Maris looked helplessly about
her. Then, sensing there was
something very wrong with the
men she'd been riding with, she
blurted out the truth.
"We've got them," cried one of
the men.
"Not yet, young fellow," cried
another of the officers. "There'll
be murder done if we go out.
Now, little girl, I hate to ask you
to do it, but will you go back to
the car and tell them --as inno-
cent -like as you cttn—that we're
just having breakfast here and
wouldn't they like to come in.
Here, be biting into one of them
hot biscuits and tell them you'd
like to stay."
Quickly Maris stepped outside,
and, running down the path, did
as she was told. An angry scowl
swept across the driver's face.
"We don't want any breakfast.
Plenty of time to get it when we
get to the city. Go back and tell
them that," The other man looked
disappointed and started mutter-
ing. He was evidently hungry.
As they hung around, undecid-
ed, the farmer opened the door
and called out, "Ain't you boys
coming? The biscuits are getting
cold."
"Better run along," the driver
said to Maris. "We'll follow you,"
Then turning to his companion he
said, "Park the gats here. I guess
they're a bunch of rubes. They
don't know who they're going to
entertain."
Safe In the Cellar
By this time Maris had entered
the house, and the farmer quick-
ly told her to follow his daughter
to the cellar. "It's the safest
place. You've been riding with a
bunch of thugs. But I reckon it'll
be their last ride for a good long
while."
"Well," said the farmer as the
men approached the door, "we'
were just sitting down to break-
fast and thought maybe you'd like
a bite if you been having trouble
with your car. So come in and sit
down. We can get the gas after-
wards." He showed then into the
low-ceilinged kitchen where break-
fast
reakfast was set.
But as the driver of the car
looked around, he said, "I think
I'd like to wash my hands first."
"You would, would you?" cried
an officer, rushing in. His two
coznpanionns seized the other.
`e1, ,you'll be able to get that
done in jai'."
Swearing in Italian and Eng-
Iish, the men tried to wriggle from
their captors' aims, but the officer
and his helpers quickly subdued
them. They dragged them from
the house, and shoved them into
their car which had been nicely
hidden beneath a three hundred
year old lilac bush.
With the hien safely out of the
house, the farmer went to the top
of the cellar steps. "Well, Mom,
you and the girls better come up-
stairs now. That was a pretty
smart bit of work, all right," he
called.
Then as they sat down to break-
fast, the farmer told how word
had been flashed that a big
truckful of silk from one of the
nearby mills had been held up and
driven away by the robbers. But
evidently there had been some dis-
pute about the sharing of the
booty, and two of the leen had
disappeared in a small sedan.
The Capture
The driver, Taft senseless at the
roadside, had finally come to, and
reaching the farmhouse hacl sent
out his S 0 S to the police. But
the car with the archplotters had
run out of gas, and evidently tak-
en a wrong road, so that when it
had been sighted a few miles up
the road the police had had time
to get the word on the road, and
Maris had played her part in their
capture.
"Well, you were a mighty
plucky girl to ride with them
thugs, but how come you were on
the road so early. in -the rnorn-
ing?"
"There, Father, Maris has told
me all about it," his daughter
said. "It's all right, and just as
soon as she gets a cup of coffee
she's going to call up her folks.
She's had her own troubles, too,
but I guess they're over now,"
"Well, well, that's fine, and now
I reckon Pei better get out to the
fields or we'll never get any work
done with all this excitement, for
even if it's Sunday the beasts
must be fed."
But as the man left the table,
Maris turned to the farmer's
wife. "I wonder if you'd let me
call up Patsy now?" she asked;
"Of course you may. 'The
aze'. right there," and she
pointed to tie hall.
But as Maris rose frown the ta-
ble a sudden blackness seemed to
envelope her. With .a cry the
farmer's wife rose and rushed to
her side just in time to save her
from striking her head against
the table.
"The poor little girl! Quick,
Tillie, bring some cold water, and
then turn down the bed in the
spare room. I guess all this ter-
rible excitement's been too much
for her,"
When Maris opened her eyes
again she found herself in a cool,
dormer - windowed room with
snowy white curtains at the win:
doe's and a big bowl of flowers
on the window ledge. She looked
slowly around her. Where was
she, she wondered. It was a pret-
ty room, but how had she ever
got there?
Then the generous -bosomed wo-
man in the quaint flowered-
sprigged cotton gown who was sit-:
ting by her side said, "Feeling
some better now, my dear?"
"Oh, yes," she whispered. "fill
afraid I've been an awful nuis-
ance to you. I must get home."
"No, no, not yet, You couldn't
rise just yet, but if you can tell
me where your friends are, I'll
call them up."
"Oh, but that would scare Pat-
sy. I'd better talk to her myself."
She tried to rise, but slumped
back an the pillows agein.
"There, my dear, you mustn'ee.
try just yet. Won't you let me
talk to your folks? I'll -be mighty
careful what 1 say—tell them just
what you want me to."
Lost Everything
"All right. I guess you'd bet-
ter," Maris said, and told her Pat-
sy's number. Then she fell as-
leep again.
It was late afternoon when she
woke, and through the open win -
clow drifted in the lazy hum of a
laggard bee, and the fragrance of
fall flowers. She closed her eyes
again -as once more she thought
of the fate she had escaped. What
a fool she had been! She'd lost
Rod, for of course he wouldn't.
be interested in her any more.
She'd lost Stan. That Was dif-
ferent. She was only too glad
that she had found out in time
what a contemptible cad he was.
Maybe, after all, Rowene had
found out his real character. She
night well he congratulating her-
self on her escape.
Patsy had been right. Men.like
Stan didn't have much sense of
honor where girls like her were
concerned. She clenched her fists,
as she thought of her escape.
Then she thought of what her
crazy infatuation had . cost. Her
job would be gone, for of course
she could never go to Fayson's
again. She'd spent nearly every
penny in her savings account so
she could be all dressed up. Now
the very thought of the clothes
she had bought was hateful to her.
Once more she drifted off to
sleep. Then just as dusk was Nag
ing she woke again, and. stelder -k..
she sat up in bed.
The door of .her bedroom was
softly opened, and Patsy tiptoed
lightly to the bedside. "Maris,
honey," she whispered as she
bent over her.
"Oh, Pat, you darling, will you
ever forgive me? I've been an
awful fool, and now when I'm
stranded you're the only one I
could call on." Her eyes filled
with tears.
"There, Maris, there's nothing
to forgive. I'm just so glad you
were lucky enough to strike folks
like the Dawsons. They seem the
kindest people. They're insisting
that Jimmy and I will stay over-
night too so we won't strike all
the Sunday traffic."
"And you'll take me home with
you, Patsy, even if I'm broke
and—"
A Criminal
"Of course we will, and we're
not going to say another thing
about it. I knew you never really
loved Stan Fayson. You were just
carried away by the glamor that
surrounded hint. But when you
know all that we know about him,
you'll thank your lucky stars that
you„never went through any mar-
riage ceremony with him.”
Maris was silent. She could not
understand why she had fallen for
Stan's love -making, why she nev-
er realized till their last ride what
the expression of scorn on those
lips of his signified, nor what it
might mean to her to marry a
man who couldn't get along with-
out his whiskey.
She shut her eyes tightly, as
she turned to Patsy, "0h, Patsy,
if only I could ever forget all
this; if only I'd listened to you!"
"There, Maris, don't feel so
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Ontario's Tourist Business
Worth $100,000,000 Annually
Would Certify
Drivers' Eyes
U. S. Medicos See Need Of
Keeping Close Check On
Auto Vision
Certified eyes for automobile dri-
vers and two pairs of glasses for
every commercial motor vehicle op-
erator requiring artificial aid to vis-
ion is the aim of the American Me-
dical Association,
It went on record last week as fa-
voring vision licenses for all dri-
vers.
Vision Licenses
The commercial driver would be
required to pass the standard eye
test or get glasses that would per-
mit him to qualify. When looking
straight ahead he would have to
show a 90 -degree scope of vision;
be able to distinguish red, green
and yellow; be free of "double vis-
ion" and night blindness.
The private driver would have to
pass a less rigid test. He would
have to show a field vision of CO
degrees; vision impairment through
'being cock-eyed oi' cross=eyed would
have to show "co-ordination of eye,
mind and muscle."
In the Centuries-old "bottle-
kickin" scramble in I•Ialiaton,
England, nearly 100 inen, rein-
forced by thousands of spectators,
struggled up and down a hill for
possession of a wooden cask con-
taining nine pints of beer.
Traffic Will Increase, Too, With
More Highway Construction
and Improved Roads In the
North---»ual Highway Sten
Best Solution.
The tourist business brings to
Ontario more than one hunched
million dollars a year of new
money, according to R, M, Smith,
Deputy Minister of Highways.
In an article entitled "King's
Highways of Ontario," printed in
the Canadian Geographical .Tours.
nal My. Smith adds: "The province
is catering to this class of traffic.
Highways are being developed
through the north, through lake
areas such as Muskoka and Hali-
burton, the Timagami and Missis-
sagi Forest Reservations, across
Algonquin Park, through the Lake
of the Woods area, and in many
other sections, all of which are of
extreme interest and barely dis-
covered from a tourist point of
view,
Mostly From U.S.
In developing tourist traffic,
the province has kept in mind the
possibility of a large percentage of
the thirty million tourists to the
south of us entering Ontario.
Roads in keeping with those to
which they are accustomed have
been built, and will continue to be
built. Each year the mileage is
extending further into the prov-
ince, in this way contacting these
vast areas I have mentioned."
He points out that each year
since the province first conimenc-
ed highway construction, traffic
has continuedto increase. He •be-
lieves that the dual highway- is
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badly. You haven't committed any
crime like Stan there, I didn't
mean to tell you," she said as
Maris opened her eyes wide and
jumped up.
(CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE)
Probes Canada's
Radium Sources
Daughter of Radium Discoverer
Working Near Great Bear Lake
OTTAWA. ---Madame Curie-Joliot,
daughter of the famed discoverers
• of radium, is at work on ores from
Canada's Great Bear Lake radium
deposits, it wss disclosed by F. B.
Friend of Port Hope, radium phy-
sicist who arrived in Ottawa to
'speak hefnre the Society of Chem -
Industry.
Her objective is the development
of commercial mmhocis for the re-
covery of other minerals of the ra-
dium group, particularly radium D,
• Rich have not yet been produced
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ores during the process of extract-
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By Glow -Worm
Cave in New Zealand Is Lighted
By Millions of Them
One of the wonders of New Zea-
land is the Waitomo Cave in the
Province of Auckland. It is rich in
stalactite and stalagmite formations
and is lighted not by naked lights
or electricity, but by millions of
glow-worms !
Hundreds of tourists visit the
cave every year for a glimpse of
this amazing sight, for the insects
line the roof and clo, not twinkle.
Silence is enforced, as the noise of
speech has the effect of making
than switch off -a natural protec-
tive instinct.
Glow-worms and fireflies are, of
course, plentiful enough in all tro-
pic regions, Where it is sometimes
possible to read a newspaper by the
light they give. In India "shikaris”
(hunters) often stick thein on the
foresight of a rifle for night shoot-
ing,
Fine Feathers
Dices arc no longer to be foend
in Italy because the great themes()
of Alpine and Customs troops,
who t'rear a kite's feather in their
soft grey -green felt hats, nes led
to the practical extermination of
the bird.
the only solution to this, at least
in Southern Ontario. Aside en-
tirely frena the traffic from out-
side, an increase of some 1,300
per cent; motor car registra-
tion within 'the :>-province since
1915 has forced pavement •de-
velopment. "well beyond the im-
agination of the most progressive..
authorities.":•
Household ants
A good rule for cooking green
vegetables such as peas and
string beans, or any vegetable
• which natures -and ripens above
the ground, is :to` put 'them on to
cook in boiling water and leave
uncovered until done; root veget-
ables such as potatoes, carrots,
beets, should be put on the fire
in cold water and in a covered
utensil to be cooked until tender,
Now that the season for long,
cool drinks is upon us, it's a good
idea to consider ways of protect-
ing furniture and rugs from drip-
ping glasses. Knit jackets to fit
the glasses or use coasters,
A cleaning stick may be fixed
at hone for the purpose of dust-
ing Venetian blinds. Take an old
ruler and wrap it several times
with a soft cloth, securing it with
soft string. This will slide in be-
tween the slats easily and prevent
the dust ' from , accumulating:
Change the cloth when soiled,
keeping one cloth washed and
ready to replace a second one.
Lettuce, watercress, or any
green food can be kept fresh for
a day or two (even if you haven't
refrigeration facilities) by putting
them in a pail with a close -fitting
lid, or in a paper bag, twisting the
open ends together and excluding
all air.
Store them in a cool, dry place,
and a short time before you Want
to use them soak them in cold
water to which a slice or two of
lemon has been added.
If the water in your locality is
hard and causes white rice to dis-
color slightly during cooking, add
a teaspoonful of lemon juice,
Discolorations on the inside of
aluminum utensils caused by al-
kaline foods may be removed by
boiling a solution of one table-
spoon of vinegar to one quart of
water in the utensil.
If fat in your frying or broiling
pan catches fire, a handful of salt
thrown into the pan is usually
sufficient to put it out immediate-
ly. If not, throw on more salt.
Leather From Canada
Canada and Germany are the
largest single suppliers among
the nations of box and willow calf
leather to the British market.
From 1,513 cwts. in 1932 pur-
chases from Canada increased to
10,145 cwts. in 1036, falling in
common with other countries to
5,989 cwts, in 1037.
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