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The Huron Expositor, 1919-02-07, Page 7UARY 7, 1919 adgeamem is has been mated a sale i better than, ala tat% SUS odd istory as will the at Versailles. senting The To - ay judge of their ties e News ing our men will possible change le recorded. by ;tar. Six o'clock oronto time. in hanges will be 2.25 it will be ill he on the way the evening most know what hap - ling 6 o'clock the (wont°, ily Star ias the News mice m World - There isn't a • newspaper on this comtinent that has a faster, In 0 r e accurate • trld. more com- kehensive news Service at the ace Confer- mce than has The lronto Daily .*••"- 0 CO ••9 ffhlIIIttIaJttlt alIjrniam ths—for which * • 0 9 • 0 • 9 TAR FEBRUARY 7,1919 EXP rr 7 `,..31.•••••141•••••011110•111011.1111!••••••••• , -----1 hundred -yards out over the water as the taxicab Iran along the lake drive, but what was before him was the turf of a eleat_that constant, never'dimin- ishing, never increasing roar came from far beyond the shore; the surge and rise and fall and surge again were of a sea in motion. Floes, floated, toss - u , tumbled, broke, and rose again h the rush of the surf; spray flew up between the floes; geysers spurted high into the air as the pressure of the water, bearing up - against the ice, burst between two great icecakes be- fore the waves cradled them and tum- - bled them over. And all was without wind; over the lake, as over the land the soft snowflakes lazily floated down, scarcely ,stirred by the slightest breeze; that roar was the voice of the water, that aetful power its own. Alan choked and gasped for breath, . - his pulses pounding in his throat; he (Continued from Last Week) Late that afternoon he reached bad snatched off his hat and, leaning . Kansas City, designated in the letter outofthe window sucked the lake air' no - family• of a professor of physics, with cars. That night saw him in his trein into his lungs. There had been thing to make him expect this over - Pour wonderful years followed. The as the point where he would change whom he was brought in contact by —a transconinental with berths near- M hauling crush of feeling. The lake his work outside of college, liked him and "took 'him up,' He lodged finally hind the curtains. Alan undressed and ly all mit& up and people sleeping be- —he had thought .of it, of course, as a great bodyof water, an interesting in their house and bedame one of themgot into his berthbut he laawake sight for a prarie boy to see; that In companionship with these educated most of the nigh,t, excited d ex- was all. No physicial experience in . y an people, ideas and manners caman t t e to pec . T h e ate e ruary dawn 1 ft b all his memory had affected him like him which he could not have acquired showed hi n the rolling. lands of IQ this; and it was without warning; the at home; athletics straightened and, 'which changed, while he was at break- strange thing that had stirred within added bearing to his muselar, well- fast in the dining car to the snow-, him as the car brought him to the formed body, his pleasant, young covered fields and farm' s of northern drive down -town was strengthened control. Life became filled witifposs- • as the train rounded' curves, that frightened, half. dizzied hina Now, now a thousand -fold; it amazed,- half face acquired self-reliance and self- Illinios, Toward- noon he could see ibilities for himself which it had never the horizon to the east had takeno as the motor suddenly swung around held before. • e. amivky look Vastvague, the shad- a corner and shut the sight of the lake But one day of graduation he had ow—the emanation 'of of hundreds of from him, Alan sat back breathlesse put away the enterprise he had plaint- thousands of chimneys—thickened and "Astor Street," he read the marker ed and the dreams he dreamed and, grew more definite as the train sped on the corner a block back from the conscious that his debt to father and on; suburban villages began supplant- lake, and he bent quickly forward to mother still remained unpaid, he had ing country towns; stations became look, as- the car swung to the right in - returned to care for them; for father's more pretentious. They passed fac- to Astor Street It- was—as in this health had failed and Jim who had tories ;then hundreds of acres of little neighborhood it must be—a residence opened a law office lift Kansas Cit Y, houses of the factory workers in long street of e handsome mansions built could do nothing to help. rows; swiftly the buildings became close together. The car swerved to No more money had followed the larger, closer together; he had a vision east curb about the middle of the block draft from Chicago and there had been of miles upon. miles of streets, and the . and came to a stop. The house no communication of any kind;tbut train rolled slowly into a long train- before - . which it had halted the receipt of so considerable a sum shed and stopped. 'was a Marge stone house of quiet had revived and intensified all Alan's Alan, following the porter with his A good design; it was some generation speculations about himself. The vague suitcase' from the car, stepped down oler, apparently, than the houses on expectation of his childhood that some- among the crowds hurrying to and each side of it which werebrick and time, .in some way, he would be "sent from the trains. He was not confused, terra cotta of recent, fashionable arch - for" had grown during the last six he was only intensely excited. Act- itecture; Alan only glanced at them years to a definite belief. And now ing in implieit accord with the, instruc- long enough to get that impression be - on the afternoon before—the summons tons of the -letter, which he knew by • fore he opened the cab door and got had come. ' heart, lit went to the uniformed atten- out; but as the cab drove away, .he This time, as he tore open the en- dant and engaged a taxicab—itself no stood beside his suitcase looking. up at ld h e b velope, he saw that besides a cheek, small experience; there would be no the ohouse whicborthe numer Clth there was writing within—an uneven one at the station to meet him, the given in Benjamin orvet's etterlen ruback and nervous-looldng but plainly leg- letter had said. He gave the Astor ao-nd a the other houses and to. that again Bale communication hi longhand. The Street address and got into. the cab. , . ' • The nei hborhod obviously precluded PI% II ' nonnueiclxe ou apeui awrei Leaning forward in his seat, looking THE INDIAN ':19RUAl.. Alt By WILLIAM MaerfA.RG and EDWIN RAPIER ' Thomas Allen, Publisher, Toronto him, rather than asked him, to come to the right and then to the left as he the rolah. ility of Corvet's being merely a laveyer—a go-between. He to Chicago, . gave minute instructions was driven through the city, his lost for the journey, and advised him to sensation was only disappointment, telegraph when he started. The check Except that it was lerger, with rnore was for a hundred dollars to pay his and bigger buildings and with more expenses. Check and letter were sign- people upon its street e Chicago appar- ed by a name completly strange to him. ently did not differ from Kansas City. He was a distinctly attractive look- If it was, in reality, the city of his trig lad, as he stood now on the station birth, or if ever he had seen these platform of the little town, while the streets before, they now aroused no eastbound train rumbled in, and he memories in him. fingered in his pocket the letter froni1 It had began to snow again. For Chicago. • I a feW blocks the taxicab drove north As the train .came to a stop, he push- past more or- less ordinary buildings, ed his suitcase up - on to a car platform then turned east on a broad boulevard. and stood on the' bottoin step, looking where tall tile and brick and stone back at the little town standing away structures, towered till their roofs from its railroad station among brown,. were hidden in the snowfall. The large treeless hills, now scantily / snow- light flakes, failing lazily, were thick covered—the town which was the only home he ever consciously had known. His eyes dampened and he choked, as he looked a it and at the people on the station platform—the station -master, the elralTipaei, the manefrere the_post office who would receive the Mail bag, eople who called him by his first a he called them by theire. He did not doubt at all that he would see the town and them again. The question was what he would be when he did see sq eonmom. et putt aoqe, 'wage changed, but he would. As the train started,he picked up the suitcasa and carried it into the second day -coach. Finding a seat, at once he took the letter from his pocket and for the dozenth time reread. it. Was Corvet a relative? Was he the man who had • sent the remittance when Alan was a little boy, and the one who later had sent the fifteen hundred dollars? Or was he merely a, go-between, perhaps a lawyer? There was no letterhead - to give aid in these 'speculations. The addres to which he was to come was in Astor Street. He 'had never heard the name of the street before. Was it a business Street, Corvet's address in some great office building per- haps. ? He tried be repeating hoth names over and over to himself to arouse any obscure o obliterated childhocei memory he might have had of then; but the repetition brought no result. Memory, when he stretched it 'back to its furthest, showed him only the Kansas prairie. enough so that, w en the taxi' sveung must be some relative; the question ever present- in Alan's thought since the receipt of the letter, but, held in abeyance, as to the. possibility and nearness of Corvet's relation- to him took sharper and more exact form now than he had dared to let it take bee fore. Was his relationship to Corvet, perhaps, the closest of all relation- ships? Was Corvet his ....father? He checked the question within him- self for the time had passed for mere speculations upon it now. Alan was trembling excitedly,for-ewheever Cor - vet might be—theenigma of Alan's existence was going to be asnaisof existence was going -to beaanswered when -he had entered that house. He - IIILE stooping gear the stove I _caught the handle of a pan of boiling water and upset it," writes Mrs. Albert Smart, of 279 Harbison Ave., Winnipeg. P "The entire contents of the pan poured partly down niy arm;but mostly over my foot, and as 1, 'Was wearing - Uppers at the time nay foot was very badly scalded, A huge blister covered the wjiole • toP of My foot and the pain I suffered was intense. We had heard how good Zam-Buk is for such injuries, so my hus- band got some and pplied elite first application soon gave me wonderful relief from the burning pain, and continued applications completely -cured. -the scald. After this demon- stration •of the value of Zam- Buk we are now never without a.box in the house. We have proved it invaluable for the many little accidents Which: are of arch frequent occurrence in every home. Zam-Buk is just as effec- • tive for skin diseaaes, such as eczema, salt rheum and ulcers, and is without equal for piles,. In many cases where the disease or sore is of long stand- ing and other remedies have been useless, iZam-Buk has worked a complete and per- manent cure. Its fibisolute purity makes it suitable for the most tender skin (even the skin of a young baby) and /mothers should always keep a box on hand for7emergencies. Zarn-Buk does not deteriorate 50c,witha bokeiring. All dealers, to knove who he was to the north Again, there seemed to was 'Ping . All woman's assuranee and grace; her soft brown. hair was dressedlike 'a woman's; her gray eye e bad the open directness- of the -girl. Her face— smoothly oval, with straight brows and a skin so delicate that at the tem- ples the•veins showed dimly blue---ewas at .once womanly and youthful; and there wee something altogether likable and Simple about her, as she studied Alan now. She had on a street dress and hat; whether it was this, or whether it was the contrast of • her youth and vitality with this somber, darkened house that told him, Alan could not tell, but he felt instinctively that this house was not her home. More likely, it was some indefinable; yet convincing expression of her manner that gave him that impression. While he hazarded, with fast beating heart, what privilege of acquaintance with her Alan Conrad might have, she inoved a little nearer to him. She was slightly pale, he noticed now, and there were lines of strain and trouble about her eyes. • "I am Constance Sherill," she an flounced. Her tone implied -quite_ . evidently that she expected him to have some knowledge of her, and she , seemed surprised to see that her name did not mean more to him. "Mr. -Covert is not here this morn- ing." she said. He hesitated, but persisted: "I was to see him here to -day, Miss Sherill. He wrote me, and I telegraphed him I would be here to -day." "I know," she answered. "We had • your telegram. Mr. Covert was not here when it came, so my father open- ed it." Her voice broke oddly, and he studied her in indecision., wondering who- that father might be that opened Mr. Covert's telegrams, . -"Mr. Covert went away very sudden- .' ly," she explained. -She seemed, he thought, to be trying to make some- thing plain to him which might be a shock to him; yet herself to be un- certain what the nature of that shock might bet Her look was scrutinizing, questioning, anxious, but not unfriend- ly. "Aftee he had written you and something else had happened—I think —to alarm my father about him, father came here to ,his house to look after him. He thought something. inight have...happened to M. Covert here in his house. But Mr. Covert was not here." "You mean he has—disappearedr "Yes; he has disappeared." Alan gazed at her dizzily. Benjamin Corvet—whoever he might be—had disappeared; he had gone. Did any one else, then, know about, Alan Con- rad? "No one has seen Mr, Covert," she said, "since the day he Wrote you. We know that—that he became so disturb- ed after doing that—writing to you— that we thought you must bring with you information of him." - "Information!" "So we have been: waiting for you to come here and tell us what.you know about him or—or your connec- tion with. him." Alan only a great vague vpid- to his the, possibilities; the respensibihties, (he could tell. the -name was entirely right. For:the hupred,Yarda,eviiiekelnkeehiligre attachments, the opportMeities, per- strange to the servant, awaking could see clearly, the space appeared of that tilealtion. whom he neither welcome nor opposition, but was" whom es 'yet he did not indifference. The man stepped back, to be a parkrow a huge grail*, JeuiRle knoW—were before hirn. e but not in such a manner as to invite irig, Verde by stone Hails, Went bi• ; - Alan in. on the contrary, he half then, more park. but beyond— A. He half expected the heavy, glass - 1 ed c os -the door as he stepped back, strange stir and tingle, quite distinct i less door at t e top of the stonesteps leaving it open only an inch or- two; from the excitement of the arrival at to be opened by some one coming out the statien, pricked in Alan's veins, to greet lum ;as he took up his sintnase. but it was enough so that Alan heard : • _S and. hastily he dropped the window to but the gray heti% like the brighteome one within:- t ' him say toIle says he's htmt." his right and gazed. out again. The ttnansiont on both sides of it, remained "Ask him in.; I will speak to him." lake,as he had known since his geogra- , impassive If any one in that house It was a girl's voice—this second one, phy days, lay to the east of Chicago; had observed his coming, no sign wag a voice such as Alan never had heard therefore that void mit there beyond given. He went . up the steps and, before. It was low and soft but quite the park was the lake or, at least; the with fingers excitedly unsteady, he clear and distinct, harbor. youthful, harbor. A different air seemed to pushed the bell beside the door. impulsive modulations and.the manner come from it; sotmdsth . Suddenlyit The door opened almost instantly— of accent which Alan knew must go all was shut off; the taxicabeswerving so quickly after the ring, indeed, that with the sort of people who lived in a little, was dashing between business Alan, with leaping throb of his heart,_ .houses like those- on this street. blocks; a row -of buildings had risen knew that some one must have been The servant, obeying the voice, re - again upon the right; they - broke a- . awaiting him. But the door opened turned and opened wide the door. " i bruptly to show him a wooden -walled only halfway, and the man who stood chasm in which flowed a river full of withinWill you comen, sir?", gazing out at Alan question- Alan put down his suitcase on the ice with a tug ropping its smokestack as it wont below the bridge which the cab crossed; buildings on both sides again; then, to the right, a roaring, heaving, crashing expanse. The sound, Alan knew had been com- ing to him as an undertone for many minutes; -now it overwhelmed, swal- lowed all other sound. It- was great, not loud; all sound which Alan had - sou hin of heard before, exceptthe g g the wind over his prairies, .came from one point; even the monstrous city murmur was centered in cainparison with this. Alan could see only a fele • CHAPTER III Dscussion of a Shadow. Alan, as he looked confusedly and blankly at her, made no attempt to answer the question she had asked, or to explain. For the moneent, as he fought. to realize what -she had "said' and its meaning for himself, all his thought wets lost in mere dismay, in the denial and checking of what he ( had' been feeling as he entered the house. . His iilenct and confusion, -he knew; must seem to .Constance Sherill unwillingness to answer her; for she did not suspect that he was unable to answer her. She plainly took it in that way; but she did not seem offend- ed; it was sympathy, rather, that she showed. She seemed to appreciate, without understanding except through her feelings, that—for some reaeon— answer was difficult and dismaying for him. "You would rather explain to father than to me," she decided. He hesitated. What he wantedtnow was time to think, to learn who she was and who her father was, and to adjust himself to this strange reversal of his expectations. "Yes; I would rather do that," he said. "Will you come around to our house, then, please?" She caught -up her fur collar and muff from a chair and spoke a word to the servant. As she went out on to the porch, he followed her and stooped to pick up his suitcase. "Simons will bring. that," she said, "unless you'd rather have it with you. It in only a short walk." (Continued on Page Six) ingly, was obviously a servant, stone perch; the man made no move "What is it?" he , asked, as . Alan to pick it up and bring it in. Then stood 400kig at him and past him to Alan stepped into -the hall face to face the narrow section of darkened hall 1 with the girl who had come from the which ewas in sight. i big room on the right. Alan but his hand over the letter in She was quite a young girl—not his pocket. "I've come to, see Mr. ' over twenty-one or twenty-two, Alan Corvet." .he- said—"Mr. Bentamin judged; ,_like girls brought up in Corvet" [ wekalthy families, she seemed to Alan "What is your name?". f to have gained young, womanhood in Alan gave his name; the man re- far-g-reater degree in some respects peated it after him, in the manner of a trained servant, quite without inflec- tion. Alan, not familiar with .such tones, waited uncertainly, So far as - than the girls he knew, 'while, at the same time, in other ways, she retained more than they some characteristics of a child. Her slender figure had a - r 25 Years the Best The. "11 / • , .1••• •• • •• • •• • • • ••• • • • • • • • •N• • ••• • •7:"Vs•-••••••‘'.&---.-'- ACTUAL SIZE—the "Bigger Bar" And science to -day knows of no way of making a better house- hold soap. "Comfort" is always the best and the biggest bar for the money. That is why its sales are greater than those of any other soap in Canada—and still growing. "It's All Right" e PUGSLEY, DINGMAN & CO. LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. 010.0..00••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• VrigagfiliPMENatr•r•-, 27 • $5.00 for $40.1_0 AndEvery Dollar Worth More. Small savings now share in the high interest on Govern- ment Securities:. Redee Cost$4mArdtin1924hismtifor $5.00. SoldatMoney- Order Post Offices, Banks, and wherever the Triangle and Beaver sign is dis- played. Ettattdret ttsreetes OBILARS ---• • . , 11 11 • ' .:11111111111111111I11I111111 MIII11111111011111111111111111I MIII THE H1111111illt D s MINION BANK At the Forty -Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Shareitoldprs of The Dominion Bank. herd at 'the Head Offiee, in Tdrouto, on 29th January, 1919, the following Statement _of the affairs of the Bank as on the 31st - December,', 1918, was submitted: . 1`, - GENERAL STATEMENT - - LIABILITIES ... ..." = $6,000,000, 00 ,- - Reserve.... Capital Stock paid in • . - sapepoo -00 ._ = Fund..... - - Balance of.Profit and Loss Account - ... = e carried forward , _ 446,503 22 -_, at - = - Dividend No. 145, payable 2nd Jan- = 180, = uary, 1919 000 00 ANS s▪ m. S UE IWO 1110 vni awl 9101 100 mas 00 Former Dividends unclaimed .300 00 . .. 7,630,193 22 tee . Total Liabilities to Shareholders3 *13,630,19322 7.1 9,858,63 00 11,000,000 00 M CirealarbOh Due to --Doniinion. Government:a Deposits. not bearing interest $33,843,584 77 Deposits bearing in- t e re s t, including interest' az c r ued ' to date ... .. . 62,264,126-61 • Balances due to other Bank in Can- ada Balances due to Banks and Banking Correspondents elsewhere than ina,Canadal. Bills Payable Acceptances under Letters of Credit Liabilities not included in the fore- going . Total Public 96,1.07,711 '38- 1,131,994 04 1,002,534 64 86,520 00 305,616 76 • 383,171 94k 119,876,081 76 *133,508,274:98 ASSETS • Gold and Silver Coin -S 1,940,780 53 Dominion Government Notes— ... 13,47346_8 00 D'eposit with Central Gold Reserves 4,600,000 00 Notes of other Banks 1,037,315 49 Cheques on other Banks........ 4,995,232 10 Balances due by other Banka in Canada 7,779 15 Balaaces due by Banks and Banking . Correspondents elsewhere than in Canada 4 dr • • A443,405 46 $28,497,980 73 Dominion and Provincial aGovern- ment Securities, not exceeding . market value.. 9,966,508 15 Canadian Municipal Securities, and British, Foreign and Colonial Securities other than Can- adian, - not exceeding market value .... ..... ....... „ 13,009,830 54 Railway and other Bonds, Deben- tures and Stocks, not exceeding inarket value. ... „ 2,376,325 95 Call and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debeutures and Stocks, . . 8,408,800 29 Call and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans elsewhere then in Canada, . — . — .. . . 1,289,403 93 Other Current Loans and Discounts in Canada (less rebate of interest) 64,092,006 46 Other Current Loans and Discounts elsewhere than in Canada (less rebate of interest) . , — . 26,782 18 Liabilities of Customers under Let- ters of Credit, as per contra305,616 76 Real Estate other than BankPremises 11,470 43 ‘Overdue Debts, (estimated loss pro- vided for) 85,605 91 Bank Premises, at not more than cost, less amounts written off....... „ 5,128,854 04 Deposit with the Minister of Finance for the purposes of the Circula- tion Fund ........ „ .......... 804,500 00 Mortgages on Real Estate sold... ee 22,589 61 $63,528,89 - DEM MED 001 AMP ,40.$ liest IWO „ 01In 11111019 =le 69977,425 39 $133,506,27498 B. B. OMER, President. C. A. BOO -MU, General ,Manager. AUDITORS' REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS We have compared the above Balance Sheet with the books and accounts at the Chief Office of The Dominion Bank, and the certified returns received from its Branch, find after checking th- cash and verifying the securities at the Chief Office and certain of the principal Branches on December 31st, 1918, we certify thatcin our opinion, such Balance Sheet exhibits a true and correct view of the state of the Bank's affairs, according to the bet of our information, the explanations given to, us dss shown by the hooks of the Bank. - in addition to the examinations mentioned, the cash and securities at the Chief Office and certain of the prinalpat Airpockes were -checked and verified by its at another time during the year logrfenntl, to bain-actord with the books of the Bank. All information and explanations required:have, been given totisand all transactions of the Bank which have come under otg,ftetice have, inotur opinion, been within the powers of the Bank. C. Pt eL!$0,1 of eterkene Gorden it R. I. Thr.wowri 1 Dilworth, C.A. ToigliTo, January 214, 1919. - *HIIIIImIHIWI�IIU�UIHUIIIIWIInLHIIIIIUHIII�I�UIUWH�IWI • 0111 9110 014 9- 9-