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The Huron Expositor, 1936-12-18, Page 79,,10.11i; 4 4 ''"' • • ,I.,7,,ItHit;'-'sita'Ati;i436, 1 ,t11, ," • . . • DEM MBEE 18, 1936, LEGAL. HAYS & HEIR Succeeding R. 8. Hayti Bateleterge Solieltors, Conveyance;e and NI:44114re PbUc.SoliCitOre for the Deleinien, gal*, Office in roar of the Dominion Bank, SeaferthMoney to loan. $6111%1 H. BEST La* ()Mee • • P. J. BQLSBY Associate 1 Charge Barristers, Solleitore, Notaries,. Etc. Seaforth, Ont. Telephone '15. ELMER D. BELL, B.A. Barrister & Solicitor Office of late F. Holmsted, K.C. (Next A. D. Sutherland) " Monday, Thursday and Fridays. Over Keating's Drug Store. 8571x62 'VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veteria, ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls pramptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea - forth. A. it CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. 'All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or eight calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensel', opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- -tish • Terriers, Inverness Kennels, HensalE • MEDICAL DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine. University of Western Ontario. Mem- ber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. °Moe, 43 'Gude- rich Street, West. Phone 37. Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay. DR. W. C. SPROAT Physician - Surgeon Phone 90-W. Office Jon St., Seaforth, • DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence, Goderich St, east of the United Church; Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County ef Huron. .DR. .HUGH 14. ROSS . , Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, raember o Cols lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London. England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. • • • 7 '14% •,r MAX 1 BRAND , • (Dontialted from bet- week) ., What Vfould Nell do now, Joan Wondered. Whatdiefranee arould spring Out of her pride? But she was astonished to see Nell throw out her hande•in an appealing .gesture. . "You're trying to break my heart!" she sobbed. "Oa, Nell," cried the man softly. "Ch, honey, I'd go thraugh, fire to make you happy. Don't you know that?" And, quite regardless of whoever might be ,looking, he caught. Nell in his arms It was such ale unexpect- ed' endling to the little drama that Joancaught her breath, smiling and madding in sympathy. She was so glad the breach was healed that she wan.ted to run out and shake their hands and tell them how happy he was. "Stop crying, dear," Gainer was saying. "I'm a brute the way 1 been talking to you. I'd like to get down on my knees and beg your pardon. Please stop crying, Nell, and I'll nev- er talk about flirting again!" ., And indeed the- whole body of Nell was shaken and kuivering. But it was not with sobs. To the utter amazement Of Joan, straight toward when/ the face of the girl was turned, Nell was:laughing' impu•dently, silent - le, with ,her face crushed close to the shoulder of her lover. "But folkswill see us!" Gainor muttered,. drawing back. Nell buried her face in herehands. • "Oh, Nell," groin,ed the man, 'I'll never forgive myeelf! Will you?" Be thought she was still crying, no doubt. But Joan, shocked and thun- derstruck, knew well enough that -she was merely hiding the last of her laughter. Oh, sha:meless woman, she thought. And her anger rose. Oh, wretched, guileful 'woman! How she shamed all her sex! Are now they were walking off af- lectioratety arm in arm with the girl looking sadly up at Gainor and slay- ing: "1 only want you to 'be lane to me, John. Just a little kind to me!" "Kind to you!" Gainor replied, his voice a great tremor of enthusiasm. "Nell, I'll work for you until my hands are raw. I'll make you happy if I have His voice faded in the distance. So to the very end Nell had tricked shim. using the tears which laughter had brought to her eyes to subdue him. She sthorild be warned,, thought Joan -he should certainly be warned a - 'bout the Vixen. She mused about how it might be dime until she was astonished to find herself laughing softly. She checked that laughter at once, Only to have it break out again. "After all," Joan murmured te ,herself, "she was wonderful! I won- der if any other woman in all the world could do that to a man?" In the meantime, the tousle inside the school had swung into the air of a Spaniels waltz song Whose words she had heard and learned from a ccw-puneher who had once worked for Brick Daniels. And the lilt of it :entered her blood, irresistibly. She fattran her hand stirring in the rshy- thin. Her very pulse was beating to it. It became • vitally necessary to tier to look once inside that room at the dancers. • • She stole around to the farther side of the school; There she found that the way was easy, for the foundation had been laid close to a ragged Mass of black rocks. Up these she climbed and at the' top found herself at the level of a window not more then three feet away. And by Shifting her bead from side to side she could survey the whale room. But, she did not care to shift it, for the instant her glance passed avross the room it fell upon the form of a man like a lion compared with the best of all the others -a big, wide - shouldered fellow who ,overflowed the chair he Sat on, with a head covered with curling tawny hair thrown back to rest against the Wall, and a face half stern and half handsome, -arid whplly careless of all that went on around him. Two youngsters of sixteen or sev- enteen went spinning by in double time, through the mazes of a new dance, and the big man of the tawny hair so far roused himself as to lounge forward in his chair and clap his 'Sande -in the swift time of their shuffling feet. But then he leaned back again and ran his eyes negli- gently over the maze of faces before him as if he lound, nothing worth a particular examination. Finally be rose, threw back his shoulders and stretched himself a little --he loomed a whole head taller Mhz/ the crowd-andleft the hall. Now she could look about to see who else was there. But when she looked she found that she was seeing noth- ing on every side of her but that handsome bronzed face and the head of tawny 'heir. And fear, to, bad come to her, so that she left a great (Metre to be haat home and in her bed with the covers drawn tightly around her neck. What it was. she feared she could not tell. But it was something like a child's dread.of the lonely dark - filled with unseen faces, and bands that might seize one by surprize, and great voices that might ring at on,e's ear. She stole back down The rock. All at once it seemed to her that she bad been incredibly bold 111 adven- turing as she had done. And if Buck- Daniels should ever Ithow She 'hurried arouied the school a- gain. She slipped away We the tan- gle of eedlat and cactus until she reached Peter again, and as he whin- nied a weleome no louder than a whisper, she threw her wens around his honest bead and drew it Mose tia DR. E. A. McMASTER Graduate of the University of Toron- to, Faculty of Medicine Members of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of New York Post Graduate School and Lying-in Hospital, New York. of- fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone 27. Office fully equipped for X-ray diagnosis and ultra, short wave elec- tric treatment, Ultra Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra Red electric treatments. Nurse in, attendance. DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto, Late- assistant New York Opthal- noel and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At Oothmercial Betel, Seaforth, third. Wednesday in each Mouth, from 1.30 p.m. t 04.30 p.m. 58 Waterloci Street, South, Strat lord. R. DONALD G. STEER Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University Western Ontario. Mem- .ber of Coillege of Physicians and Sergeons of Ontario. Full equip - Anent, includiing an ultra short wave set. Offide King Street, Hensall. Phone Bengali 56. DENTAL OFI J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensel], • Ont. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household males. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write or phone Har- old Dale,, Phone 149, Seaforth, or ,q apply at The, Expositor Dffiee. F. W. AHRENS Licensed atictioneer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales solicited. 'X'erms on applieation. Farm Stook, Chattels and Real Estate Property. It. R. No. 4, Mitchell. Phone 634 r 6. Apply at MS °Mee. her. • "Oh, Peter," she murmured, "I've seen such stranye things, and I've heard such strange things. Take eae home as fast as you haus" But whole she had mounted to the sladdle, trembling with weakness and fear and haste, her courage returned. For here was Peter under her, and in case of danger she, could launch a- way on his back like an arrow from the string. One dance had ended; an- other dance was beginning. But its music was nothing. For Still the words and the rhythm of the Span- ish waltz rang through her (head, and, tilting up her face, she began to sing them. CHAPTER VI The:Gentle Flame It made no „difference that she did not understandthe words; that did not lessee ter enjoyment of the rhy- thms' "Que viva la du,mba; Que viva, que viva placer; Que vivan, las nine% ehulitas, bonitas Y guapes que saben querer!" She .ended with laughter in her throat. "Hello!" called a man's! voice, 'ap- proaching. the thicket. . "Who's yon- der?" • Joan gathered 'the reins with a jerk that tensed Peter for a start. But instead of fleeing at once she looked back and saw the figure of, a big man striding across the clearing. . Between the heads of two scrub - cedars she could see him, and now he crossed a shaft of light which spilled out from aewindow, and she saw that it was the man of the tawny hair. Iadeed, since he was carrying his sombrero itt his hand, the' light tang- led and kindled for an instant in his hair before he stepped on into the next shadlew. "Now, Peter," breathed Joan, "fast- er than you've ever run before!" Arid yet she did nct relax her pull on the reins, It was as if her con- -spious will strove tocarry her away art!' a stronger subcoriscious power kept her there and made her glance hastily around her. There was a, labyrinth of passages. twisting among the shrubs, made dou- bly !be -lilting by the white light and the black shadows cast by the moon. And, instead of fleeing, she reined Peter backward 'into a thick eircle of the° cedars, sprang to the ground, and took abetter behind a big cactus. "Hello!" called the voice of the man again. "Where there?" "Why are you coming?" asked Joan and her voice shook With excitement. "Because I'd walk ten miles 'end swim a saver to .see the girl that was sirging that old song," he answered. "Just a minute until I get through this cactus -the stuff is like a• lot of fish- hooks." She • slipped ti i the shle. He must not come too. close to Peter. And from a fresh covert sae called softly: "Who are you?" "My name is Harry Gloster. What is :yews? 'Hello -where have you gone?" • He had come out on the farther side of the thicket. "Not far from you;" she answered. He hurried toward her. And in the mconshiee ,be appeared a giant. Back among the cedars she stole, and that same ability to move like a _soundless shadow which had been hers when she was leaving the ranch - house was :with her again. Then she stood' 'fast) in the deep shadow of a tall shrub, and saw Glo- ster blunder past her, sweeping the very spot where she stood, but see- ing nothing. It wasas if she were wrapped in some , fabled cloak of darkness'. And in ' her- heart she wished that she could step out before Jriin. If clever Nell was there, that was what she would have done. But Nell was' dressed like a bit of sunset cloud, .and Joan was clad in khaki. How could she let him see her, drab as that shadow itt which, she stood? And yet, it was hard to leave him, also! • , Sliestepped to the other side of thercedar; peering through its branch "es, and saw him come running back, then stop in an open'. space. The moon struck full upon 'him. He was half laughing and half frowning, and such was his excitement that he still car- ried: his .hat in his hand, .crushed to a shapele-ss mase in his fingers. "Where are you?" he cried!, guard- ing his voice that it might not pene- trate farther than the little copse and to the ears. of Some strolling aouples in tlie clearing beside the school. The wind increased. at that mom- ent, with a rustling and rushing a- mong the !branches, and Joan, pitch- ing her voice far and thin, answered him. "Here!" she called. He turned about face. "The devil," she heard him mutter, "she has wings!" He added aloud: "I won't hunt for you if you don't want me to." "Do you 'promise that?" asked Joan. He faced sharply toward her again, appeared about to make a,step la her direction, and checked himself., "I'll promise if I have to," said Harry Mester "Then I'll, stay a wh•ile," she an- swered. "But why have you come running in here?" "You know better than I do." "I haven't the least idea." • "To call a---" She checked her- self in, confusion. • "That's right!" he laughed. "To call a Mate. And when You said in that song I that you understood love---" "The gong may have said It. I did not." "Year. Whole Voice as full of it." "I know nothing about We, tricks my voice may have ,been playing."' He moved a 'half-step closer. • "Your promise I" she erfed. He retreated again with a 'sort of groan, and. Joan wondered at hint. If she had been in his place, strong as a•glant and free as the wind, would a single promise have held her back? She decided 'with ;a little shudder that it would not. And in the Meantime she was study- ing Elim• intently. She -knew little a- bout Men. She' had seen cowpunch- ers cox the:rahch, of course, but.Buck Daniels appeared to have a pephhant for old and withered fellows'who had lost interest in everything except their cigarettes and theirastories of their youth.. And everyone else she had met, with hardly, an exception, had 'been merely in peeving. A thousand times, by .hints and di- rect egnamancle, Buck Daniels had or- dered her to pa.y no attention to men' -to „young men', And she had obey- ed. Sometimes, when it wasneces- sary for her to go into the town, she had felt eyes taking holki. on her, but she had never looked back to 'meet those glancesi. It seemed to her now that .she was Seeidg a man for the first time. And what a Man Ire was! How he, had stood forth in the schoolhouse dance hall among the crowd! There was power in a simple gesture to have crushed an ordinary man, She felt. And yet at the same time there was a gentleness M. him so that his prom- ise could tie ep all his strength. "I'll keep my promise," he was say- ing, "if you want to hold me to it. But We sort of hard to talk to a tree, thiesway." "I don't see, why," Joan murmured. "You can hear Me -I can hear you." '"It ain't the words that 1 mean," he insisted. • "They're the leastpart of a talk." "What is it made up of, then?" "The way you turn your head, the way )7,1ou lift your eyes; the way you • smile or your • frown, and the colour of ycur hair, is a pile .more important than a hundred words, the best wards that ever' come out of anyone's. mouth." "What colour, then,, is it?"'she ask- ed. He considered a InOment. "The chief light that I got to see you by," he oonfeased, "is that. song that I heard you singing. And out of that Pdsay that your.hair is black and your eyes are black, and your skin is sort of olive with the colour under it. AM I right?" .She paused before ,she could an- swer. it had been a grievous blow, for some foolish reason; to tear him. Every stroke in the picture had been so utterly unlike the truth that it lay like a weight upoo her. What she wanted to do was••toletep out •and, show •him the truth -but something held her back. For if she showed hire • the truth", would he not turn his back on her? But if she left him with his illu'sion, he might carry a- way his false picture linked' up with her real voice', and so.for a time she would live in his memory -a sort of ghostly travesty of what she really ealIehega Bargain Rates on CHRISTMAS DAY, The low Night Rates in effect every evening after 7, and all day Sunday, will also •apply ALL CHRISTMAS DAY! No need to wait until the evening to make your Long Distance call; you can telephone at the spe- cial low rates anytime between 7 p.in., Dec. 24th, and 4 a.m., Dec. 26th. Head your Christmas list with that priceless personal gift-- your voice. - Send it ringing to Father and Mother, to that out-of-town brother, sister or friend. No gift could give more in mutual pleasure for the little it costs than Long Distance; and the calls can be put through so quickly and easily; just like calling a local number. Thousands who are tied to town visit home and friends this inexpensivay-not only at Christmas but on many another festive occasion. 1 M. J. HABKIRK, Manager was. "Am I eight?" he was repeating. "Yea". she answered, "you're right -that is, in general." "What does that mean? But I don't care about that. What I want to hear is yhur name and what I want to see is your face. ,She was silent. • "Are you afraid even to tell me your name?" he asked. Still ,she did not speak. and she saw him drop his -head a little and close his hands. "Listen to me," he said almost sternly. "If you've run away from your husband and gone gadding to- night -no matter what it is • that makes you want to keep it secret, I'll keep that secret on my honour. But let me know enough so that I can find you again!" She saw the picture invivid colors -this big fellow coming home to call on her, and Buck Daniels meeting shim at the door; terrible Buck Daniels, in whose hands the metal and wood of a revolver' became a living thing, Which could not fail to kill. She bad seen him tear to pieces with a bullet a little squirrel 81 -ting upon a limb like a tiny peg. had seen him do this from a galloping horse. She lhad seen him casually clip high twigs from trees in order to cut loose and float down to her a nest which she wiseedto have: And with that artistry of destruc- tion, arrayed against him „ all the strength, of Harry Gloster would he of no avail. She knew more than this - that sooner than see, her become aa quainted with a young man, kluelc Daniels would pick the quarrel and force the fight. And while all her !heart was knocking 1 her throat, choking her with the desire to speak tire truth. she found that fear of Buck was even greater, and she could not Say a word. "I can't tell you," she said. "But,"if you don't, I'll never be -able to find you. Yet I shall find you, if I have to .spend ten years hunting. But, good, God -with only your voice to go on! Will you change your mind?" "I cannot," she cried, half eobbing. "But you want to! By the Lord, I can feel it in your voice." ''No, no!" "Will you do one thing foe me?" "All I can, with all my 'hearth "My God," cried the big man "I'd give ten years of my life for one took at you; but if I can't have that, will you sing the song again for me?" WIt'shytlh"e only due that I'm going to have. And it ain't much to give a- way." , "I'll sing it, them" Twice she tried the opening note, and twice her voice shook away to nothingness and failed her. But then the sound rose very soft and yet clear as a bell ringing: "Que viva la ruma; Que viva, hue viva placer; Que vivan las ninas, ohulitas. bonitas Y guapas que. saben querer!"' • And as she sang she. began to move slowly 'back from bellied the shiub, e a little as e might not raising het' voice in volum she stole away so that 'h, guess her matheuvre. Why she should run away so suddenly she was .-not sure, but she felt a storm of- emo- tionsw racking 'her. She as no long- s not Harry u er sure of herself. It wa Gloster she feared so mch as elle feared herself. And when the late note died away she was only a step from Peter. It nt that Har - was not until that moine ry Gloster 's'eemed to realize that she was deserting him, She heard his voice crying 0111 af- as lost in a ter her, and then, she w blind panic which made her rush for Peter and then sent her flying away of his feet the panting on his hack. The sound over rocks. and sand and breath he drew drowned any calling from behind. A moment later she was out of earshot and, leaking back, she saw that she was unpursued, • CHAPTER VII Out Of Sight There was an excellent reason for that. Harry Gloster had heard her horse break. °et Of the shrubbery and running to the 'place. be was in time to see the bay gelding, glistening in the moonshine, darting away set full :.peed. Even with a.e equal start he knew that he could not keep in touch with that fugitive. And •through a stran:ge country by night it was im- pozeible to trace her. Yet he was so excited that for a time reason ,had nothing ,to do with his actions. He ranee short distance on foot before he realized his folly. then, standing for another moment, he watched the horse fade into the thoon-liaze and knew that he had lost her indeed. The sound of her voice and "Que VtiVa la rumba" was all that (Ile had by which to trail her. It would have been better -to have had nothing at all. He tried the effect of cold -blood - ad argument as he, turned arid walked slowly back. In the first Place, lie had not seen her face. In the second place he knew nothing whatever a- bout lier. She might be a There imp of the desert with suneseled hair and 'freckles, strewn across her nose.' tut he found that impulse was breaking through reason again and again. He had heard only her voice, but it was a voice to •dream sweet -toned, gentle -and ,all the fresh: netss of ginithood was in it. She must be beautiful, he told hianself, with such a voice as that. He was beginning to feel that an ugly fate had hold of him in this colliery. In the first place," there had beer_ that singular Meeting with a man whose eyes had such power that they had pierced through and through him and got quite at the heart of his story. He was fleeing for the Rio Grande and if he was caught the chances were considerably more than three out of four, that he would be swung from the.' gallows for shaving ehorten,ed the life of a fellow -man. Lee Haines had looked him through and through, and for that very rea- son he should have started south a - grin as fast as a Staggeringly weary horse could take him. But he had liLgered until he was drawn into bat- tle again,. and in that fight he had made a mortal enemy of Joe. Joe Maearther he had learned that the man's name was, and Haines had_ un- derstated the formidable character of tie fellow. Now; then, that one mats had dis- covered that he was a fugitive and that another was on his trail to "get" him, certainly he had reasons 'enough for wishing to leave the town a full gallop. But he had deliberately lin- i,ered, jogging only a mile or two eolith and then making a detour, Joe Macarthur would thunder south along the trail which a dozen people could point out to bim. Let him go! Harry Gloster would start later, and by a different route. For he had no "esire to meet a man who was a pro- fessional in the use of a gun. He himself could occasionally hit a target -if it were large enough and he had time enough to aim with care, but this magic of swift drawing and murderous straight shooting com,bin- ee was quite beyond him. Fighting for its own sake he loved with a pas- sionate devetion. But to face a gunman, would be sul- fide. So he had lingered in the town until the desk, and then he started Perth- leisurely on a trail that ran south and west. So it was that he came to the lighted schoolhouse. Twice herode by it, and twice he turned and came back to listen to the gusts of yeung voices and to the bursts of the music. All common sense told him to, be off and away. But it was a year sines. he had danced, and Harry Gloster was yOung. ' So hen,t-ent inside the school. but I once inside he regretted his step more than ever. Something had died in him, so it seemed, during that last year. the music was flat; not a smile which his great size and his hand- some face won for him penetrated his armour of indifference, and after he had -spent fifteenterninutes in the. hall he got. up and left. He" was on his way to his horse when he heard: "Que viva la rumba. Que viva, que viva placer . . of the law. But lie knew himself too well to dream that he could hold out long against the temptation,. He paused again 011 his way ho the (horse. The music had a different meaning now, His pulse was quick. His blood was hot. And there was a tingle of uneasiness' which ran from hand to foot.. Had he known that Jae Macarthur himself was in that •dance hall, be would have entered, again and taken this chance, which was not a chance at all. (Continued Next Week) ring sweet and thin from, the thiek,; et. And now he was coming back to- ward his horse With the solemn re-. atlisation that there would be no shel- ter for him below the Rio. Grande. For, sooner or later, die must/ come bacleto fled the trail of this nameless girl, and when he returned tile would be placing his head in the lien's Mouth • LONDON and WINGHAM South Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brucefield Kippen Hensall Exeter Exeter North Hensall Kippen Brucefleld Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham P.M. 1.55 2.11 2.23 2.30 3.08 3.27 3.35 3.41 3.55 A.M. 10.42 10.55 11.01 11.09 11.54 12.10 12.19 12.30 12.50 C.N.R. TIME TABLE East Goderich Clinton, Seaforth Dublin Mitchell West A.M. 6.40 7.03 7.17 7.28 7.37 Mitchell 11.19 Dublin s 11.27 Seaforth s s 11.43 Clinton 12.12 Goderich 12.22 P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.16 3.29 3.41 9.3a 9.41 9,54 10.08 10.34 e C.P.R. TIME TABLE East P.M. Goderich ,, 4.26 Menset 4.24 McGaw 43 Auburn 4.42 Blyth,, 452 Walton .6.05 ' McNaught 5.15 Toronto t . 9.00 West A.M. Toronto 8,30 McNaught Walton 12.14 ••: Blyth Auburn • 12t2S,;!' litS' ' Motlaw Menset Goderich 1163 • • • . , '4A,1 . ' , .JeatiP ' t• • 1 , „ • io• , • ,