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They cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. We are agents grid will be pleased .toquote you o ati gt . le, or y. C t �' ." See Yotir+lime Prl tw' Fiat CHAPTER XI SYNOPSIS "' Mark Alexander is left with his step -daughter, Valerie, to raise when his lteautiful wife, `"Ell"en, dies. Ellen's himily resents Mark taking careof the child by him" self and hiring Lucy Tredway as a tutor. Elsie has her eye .;on both Mark and the trust fund left Valerie and never misses a chance to knock Lucy. Shirley, however, thinks Mark has done just right. A birthday party is planned, for Valerie, and while it is going on, Elsie bursts in on Mark and. Lucy. "Oh," said Elsie. She felt as she did the day she went to meet Mark. She was saying all the wrong things and she couldn't seem to shop. 'It was 'beginning to dawn on her that it would have been better not to come tonight. She steadily kept Lucy out of the conversation but she had never been so shatteringly conscious of another woman before. "Shall I ring for coffee and a liqueur, for you?" asked Mark.. "No, darling," said Elsie. She had came straight to them from a dull dinner • at her, mother's. But looking at her as she gazed pathetically into Marks face, Lucy could have sworn she a i s't eaten for at least a week; and wa- refus- ing, to spare even the servants - necessary trouble. She had neve sae thought, met anyone Who mana ed to convey so much by what e didn't say. Alice and' another maid came and carried the table away. And pres- ently there was a sudden rush of feet, and laughter in the big hall, and the party burst in, headed by Val- erie. 'Darling," cried Valerie, "may we dance now? Or . must we wait a while? What shall we do?'' - "Of course you shall dance," Lucy laughed. "Whenever you're ready." She straightened a flower on Valerie's shoulder, and .looked at Elsie, who raged at' the maternal quality of the small scene. She could :hardily bear the implication of the confider er and affection between the two. Neither did she miss the sudden droop of Valerie's young mouth as she followed file pressure of Luey%'s hand and saw .Elsie, whom she had overlooked, in her •first rush with the others into the room. "How do' you do?" she. said', trying to sound as cordial as she could. She waved a hand toward the chattering group around -Mark. "I thinkyou know everybody—" "1 date say long before you did, '1erling," -Elsie allowed herself to say. ' "Their mothers and fathers were my s friends' before you were bore." "Holt nice," said Valerie politely. She telt vaguely. apologetic; but as she couldn't imagine what she had said; she decided, to wait. and .ask. HitAttOit .tart , j''ike i i ta' ' they weremerging with the rest, and smiling •at Lucy, being ,taught 'a new step by Rex over in a corner. `Wlhy', father,?' she said amazedly. "Yes?" He leaned from her to look into her shining eyes. "Whi, you're a marvelous dancer! I., mean, you really are!" '"Thanks," said Mark, trying not to laugh. "I like to be taken down from the shelf and dusted off once in a while. You're not bad yourself." "I do dance pretty well," she. said seriously. "But then, 'you see, I love it. You can always db things well if you love 'em," "I see.". The dance ended, was encored, and ended: again. -"I shall now turn you over to Rex. Maybe you'll dance with me again later." He patted her head, and went off to find Elsie. He might as Well get it over with as soon as. he could. Dancing with her had never been a treat, sit best, but he would go through with it, and then go and find Lucy. Elsie stayed until half past eleven. Mark danced' with her only once. he made it a point to ask each of.. the 'fluttering gay bits of femininity who were Valerie's friends, and he danced again' with Valerie. The rest of the time he, spent with Lucy, whose steps seemed to melt in- to his. with a peculiar magic. Lt was while the youngsters were sitting around a simple little supper that Elsie made an excuse to go over and drop down beside Lucy. She smiled pleasantly, and made room for Elsie beside her on a small sofa. "Did you managed to get some- thing to eat?" she asked. "Oh, ,yes," said Elsie selr'conscious- ly. "Trust .me to be at home at Wide Acres." There seemed nothing to say to this, so Lucy merely smiled, and went back- to her ice. "You never knew Mark's beautiful wife, of course?" Elsie asked present- s, watching her. "No," said Lucy. Then, feeling that this was a trifle bald, she added, "She 'must have been very lovely." "Oh, my dear, she was more than lovely. She filled •the house with her presence. But a man's wife is the pivot around which a home revolves, don't you think?" "Naturally," said Lucy. She won- dered what was corning next. "You mustn't ever think we don't appreciate all your services here," cooed Elsie. "All of us — I mean, Mark's intimates — realize how hard -you must, have worked. 'And what it must have cost you" "cost me?" asked Lucy. She felt they were getting nearer• now to the main idea. Elsie opened her large , eyes to their widest. "But - of course. Al- though you are old enough to know what.you're doing. I mean, as far as jour own reputation goes. When a woman comes to lire with a fasc•inat- ire widower', and a little, girl—" "And a housekeeper and •a staff She, has never been so conscious of another woman. Lucy in . the morning, if she didn't iotget it in all the excitement. . `Coque on," she called to the others. ''Or course you're ooming, father and Lucy? .Oh -- and Mrs. Wo terford—Father, will you promise to dance with me at Ieast once? It won't be a parity unless you do. Rex, maybe Lucy will donne with you, if• you solemnly promise not to walk all over her feet. He's terrible," she told. Lucy. - .. Rei. Devise grinned down from his sixteen years. ' He was already Crazy about Valerie, andi didn't care 'what she skid to him. He tucked; Lucy's hand int his arm with what he felt e as complete sophistication. "Shall we get the elevator? Or don't you mind walking? And may I have the first dance?" he asked in a breath. 'The very first," she promised. Lucy gathereda handful of peach velvet, and took to her (heels. She 'arrived only slightly behind him at the odor of the Small blU erehestra was Playing ; and couples slipped Wit on the'Shining surface of . the boor, Mark coming tdna til Valerie. He said, in the most grown-up 'array, 4li of servants," said feel her temper gripped it closer. "Perhaps you'd exactly what you Lucy. "Oh, my dear, annoyed with me. Elsie retrieved her ermine coat, slipping her ,bare arms lute it, and trailing her black velvet to where Mark stood, . the center of a `small knot of girls. "Thanks, Mark darling, for every- thing." She put her hand in his, man- aging to suggest delicious, unspoken possibilities. Mark held her hand for a second, and put it gently down, looking -a trifle confused. "Could you —Pike an angel—drive me home? Of course I gave Harmon the evening. I couldn't keep 'him Thanksgiving—" she stood like an angel of gentle con- sideration. "Isn't it a shame the way luck runs? My car's having a minor opera- tion. Tell Nrou what—we'll tuck you -in with a bunch. of the kids Catlet �s taking home.' "How simply sweet," said Elsie. But she looked anything but sweet later, wedged in between two bright young (things, with Rex and a riotous boy on the fold -up seats before her and shrill reminiscences of the night filling the car. Valerie burst into Lucy's rbedroom hate the next morning to find Lucy pale and listless over a practically un- touched breakfast tray:. Mark had in- sisted on holidays, so lessons were off for a week, . "When you didn't come down for breakfast; I thought something must be wrong," cried Valerie. "I ran up as soon as I had finished. I was go- ing to swim in the Kenwood's' indoor pool, but I won't go now. It won't take me a minute to telephone—" - Lucy drew her down and kissed her. 'Of course you'll go, silly," she said. - She tried to speak brightly. "There's nothing the matter. Unless it's late hours last night." "You look as it you hadn't slept at all!" "I didn't know it was as bad as that. I must be a mess!" "You know I didn't mean that kind of looks! Did ....the party tire you? If it did, we'll never have- an- other—" • "But I adore ,parties," said Lucy. "And yours was .almost the nicest I ever knew." "Ours," corrected Valerie. "There- wouldn't have been any party if it hadn't been for you." "Oh, the planning was part of the fun. You see, I—I have .same letters to. write. And there's som;ething— well rather important, I have to think about a bit. Ytiu know—one of those things—" Sire:?rattled on. thanking heaven that Valerie didn't know. "So I thought I'd just' in- dulge in a lazy morning—" "Rather importan•t," repeated Val- erie. She stood quite still, staring at. Lucy. Then her eyes grew startled, and she ran over and dropped to the end of the chaise lounge. 'I don't like it, somehow. .Lucy—there would- n't be anything -1 mean, nothing could. take you away from use" Lucy swung her feet to the floor and threw a su lcle.n time around the girl..'Would it make such a d.if1'e:,'- ence' ' she asked. She was almost frightened at the change in Valerie's. face.. "But you're joking!" she cried. "Why—'you belong here. You belong to Wide Acres—and father—and' ate! There wouldn't be anybody who has more rights to you —Lucy! Are you crying?" "Crying? Certainly not! Would I cry because a popular young woman with heaps and heaps of friends thinks' she couldn't get along with- out me? What do you think I am?" Valerie kissed her and went out. Lucy was glad to see that the fear had faded from her face. She sat until lunching trying to think the thing through. She 'had. known since her first night at Wide Acres that'Elsie was her enemy. 91 course, the reason was plain enough. Elsie wanted Mark, and meant to get him if she could. Lucy. She could. slipping, and she like to tell me mean," suggested you mustn't be Of course, what you do to your own reputation is your affair. But it hurts—some of us—just a little—" she laid an ap- pealing hand over her heart — "I mean, to hear whispers over lunch- eon and bridge tables—Gossip is a bard thing for a baby like Valerie to live down—" • Lucy got up. Except that her eyes looked almost black in the pallor of her face, nobody could have told that she was almost faint with rage. "Excuse me," she said. She stood for a moment looking down and wondering. Just what purpose was served by the Elsies in life? "The party seettis to be breaking up." u er cr d run The . yn mugst s aiv ed around! d! her, telling her how xtuarvellous it had been, begging her to come to their patties, swattiping her with frank. smiting approval. They gat their y'u'alre and headed, chattering,, r i iii 'II fiYt' ttr fr0ilt t' biilr, ' • '..(c,ont l t R9,0.2),,,•'.-,-,,- . IP* Ux 'U 9404, r i' yaeeizie aga t 'tole u f uertZa T10s' th+ Al** Otoilti, seemed, doalnf • tR. faucet YAW/m.2( ,tarty Forth. i44,ue ad91eV.t- •ed' Y lues s • greyed whptly .'Itx*;i[ectjyrei earpinated ferrets skew/' 'p. tO hilt as readily :as the rest Doggedly, tae, 'doctors went on. trying. Tlime grew short; awl by 1939 doctors conceded that they were as powerless to cope. with flu as they had been 19 yearn before. 'Worse still, war rode the world again. Millions of people crowded in cold air-raid shelters— London subways, Stuttgart basements, Dover cellars --were ideal prospects for the return visit of the' Pale Horse- man. Aware of, this ' danger; Britain talked gamely of the, enpected "blitz - flu." . Then, as so often in the history of science, fate took ahand. Foremost in American influenza re- search are the laboratories of the Rockefeller Foundation. There, on hundreds ' of costly little ferrets, doe= tors far years had been trying over and over again the cycle of . flu til,.- ocu- lation, vaccine extraction, vaecina ion, flu inoculation, without ever attaf.ing the ing the Iong-sought inziniunity. One day in November, 1939, four ferrets recovering from experimen- tally induced flu developed distemper and. died. That caused a real scare— distemper might spread through the cages and kill all the ferrets!. ,Drs. Frank L. Horsfall, Jr., and Ed- win H. Lennette, pioneer flu fighters, hurriedly extracted a vaccine .from the lungs .,and spleens of the ferrets Gad of distemper and vaccinated the rest of the 'animials. The distemper was checked.• Later the doctors re- sumed their influenza work. With practiced . routine they, inoculated a group of ferrets with flu virus. But nothing happened! • . Hmn>,! Some slip-up, probably. The ferrets received another massive dose of flu. They remained healthy. even frisky. Blood tests showed that a high count of powerful antibodies in their blood protected, the ferrets against flu. - Had these Rockfeller scientists dis- covered, by sheer chance, the long= soug'ht anti -flu Vaccine? Was the dis- temper virus the miissing element needed to render the influenza vaccine' effective? .. Your scientist leaps tot no such con- clusions. For many months ferrets were vaccinated with the new mixed distemper -influenza vaccine. It wasn't easy to -find the right method for making the vaccine, and producing it in quantity, but the doctors persisted Some preparations proved ineffective. But others made the ferrets resistant to enormous lethal doses of the infec- ticers virus. The scientists pushed on toward The final objective: a vaccine that would be effective, not some• times, but always—and: in human be- ing's, not laboratory ferrets. Viruses, unlike bacteria, cannot be cultivated in broths. They will grow and multiply only in the presence of living cells and tissues. The doctors turned to fertilized eggs containing living chick embryos. The influenza vire: and the virus of canine disitem- per were introduced into the shells by needle shot, there to incubate on the chick einbryo and produce the mixed vaccine: 'Finally machines were, per rert:ocl to perform these operations mechanicals',- and produce the vaccine i'u °quantity. • But e-ould it work on human be- ing Through the laboratories Went a call fol• volunteers. One'hundred doc- tors and technicians. responded. and gamibled on a possible dose of experi- mentally induced flu. They were vac- cinated with the preparation of mixed viruses. After about three weeks, tests ':-showed that their blood was rich with the influenza -fighting anti- bodies—about 70 times the amount normally present. There is evidence new that this immunity lasts for many months. American scientists, had stunmbled upon success none too soon. They "had been told in 1920 that they would have just •about 20 years to do the job. As it 4'wonked out they had scarcely a month to spare under that time table. 1 The phenomenon by which the vir- us .of dog distemper changes, •the influ- enza virus and renders it more effec- tive in peeducing antibodies is still under investigation. As yet the doc- tors offer no adequate explanation of it. But the mixed vaccine is being produced in quantity and shipped. out to meet its first broad -scale tests in the field. Last December the first half -million doses intended for the population of war-torn Britain were aboard a ship that was sunk at sea. Later, when an epidemic of flu broke out on the West Coast and' rapidly spread east- ward, vaccine for 2,000 persons was flown Brest to immunize doctors and nurses constantly exposed' to the die - ease. Since then the supply has be- come increasingly available to com- renni,ties threatened by epidemic. Now, for, the first time, the medical profession feels that it has the jump on influenza. Even if the disease gets out. of hand, it is, unlikely to decim- ate the world as it did in 1918-19 People"rarely die of flue alone. They die of diseases that swarm in after flu has weakened the body's defens- es. Nine times out pf ten it is pneu- monia. that sneaks in, But this erst- while champion aman°g killers has it- self, Met two new op'ironents, each packing. a. k't'celtolit ,Iliihfa` iiinr"iitla«: is serails, and suifa:pyridtkie. '6tTW'ith idle There waS, Lucy told herself, only one thing to do: be willing to take whatever course was best for them all; and then wait for events to show her what it was. he took a shower, and dressed, covered her pallor with faint rouge, went down to lunch, and spent a long blissful afternoon with Mark, playing %quash. Lucy was not the only person to lose sleep because of Valerie's. party. As they rolled out of the Wide Acres gates, Elsie insisted that Catlet should drive her home first. 'She untangled herself from the scrambled occupants of Mark's car, dismissed Catlet, and let herself into her apartment in a rage. Sallie, her maid, ha.d fallen asleep waiting for her. Elsie waked cher furiously; and the woman, after listening to her for ten minutes., gave notice and walked out. (Continued Nexi; Week) The new traffic cop had, been told by his Inspector to overtake and step a speeding car. Ten minutes later he rang up to report: "Oar wag being driven by an actress. I stops her, Pulls out my notebook. She snatches writes heti autograph and lea 'e the Standing," ta`lvn ;tat at ck se Ix, Oe?ral n a1ty of I zndttA eated at, 'Upper Ca Roya lWUitaty ,Cpile :wanted to joirx the caval bur Rut efe ^ deference tR Pocketbook, 'since ;cavalry:.• organtz ' bions in those days were:; a luxury,'; 'took instead a jolt with 'the 14"dtia Electric' in Toronto and .. nt!u14ssion' as,' LIentenant in the bloc-Permaaegt Militia.. When the world war .'broke: out General Crerar went overseas with the First Division as a Fiel* Artillery Officer. In June; 1918, he took over the appointment of Staff Officer, Artillery, Canadian Oorps, which ;position had previously been filled by the officer who is now Gen- eral Sir Alan Brooke, Command'.er=in- Chief of the Home Forces' in. Englaad. In October, 1918, he was preted Lieut. -Colonel and made •:Corps Coun- ter Battery Staff Officer, assuming illic appointment •preyiously held by the present G.O.C. Canadian Corps!—then Lieut. -Colonel. McNaughton. Returning eventually to Canada af- ter the war, Crerar found himself at a crossroads in his ownlife, as Hydro had kept his position open for him. He decided in favor of a military car- eer, and in April, 1920, joined the Permanent Force and' .was, appointed to the staff at Ottawa. Later he at- tended the Staff College, Camberley, England, and served as a General Staff Officer for two years at the war office, London. During the years 1925- 27, when General Crerar was doing a tour of duty as General Staff Officer (Operations) at the war office, his immediate chief for most of the per- iod, was General Sir Archibald Wav- ell, now Britain's famous Commander - in -Chief in the Middle East. Return- ing to Canada in 1927 he conneanded "B" Battery, R.C.H.A., Kingston, wash later eippointed professor of tactics at R.M.C. and then went to Ottawa as General Staff Officer (Operatiori;s). In 1932, at the Disarmament Conference held in Geneva and again at the Im- perial Conference of 1937 in London General Crerar was military- advisor to Canada's delegations. He attended Imperial Defence College in England' and in 1935 became Director of Mili- tary Operations and Intelligence at National Defence Headquarters. In 1938 General Crerar was appointed Commandant of Royal Military Col- lege, Kingston, until war interrupted. 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