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The Huron Expositor, 1943-04-23, Page 7LOA• McCONNELL & RAYS' Barrister$, Solicitors, Et• \ Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays $EAFOR!'H, , ONT. • " Telephone 174 H. L MeLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. a •SEAFQRTH - ONTARIO Branch Office - Henpitll Hensall • Seaforth Slone 112 Phone 113 MEDICAL SE A,. F ORTui CLINIC DR. E. A. MciV1ASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of, Toronto PAUL L, BRADY, M.O,.. Graduate o'f University of Toronto The Clinic Is fully equipped with Complete ar.t: modern X. -ray and other alp -to -date ,diagnostic and therapeutics equipment.. Dr. F. J. is. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eY'e, nose and tthr?at, will be tit the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free' Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the seccni and 'last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, M.A., B.D. Physl::ian and Surgeon IN DR. H. It. R088' OFFICE Phone 5-W Seaforth T}IARTIN W. Sl'APLETON, B.A., M.D. Physiclan and Surgeon Successor to Dr, W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W - - Seaforth DR. F, J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ea ^, Nose and Throat Graduate ii. Medicine, University of iorpnto. Late roses,ant New York 011i?thal- mei and Aur a Institute, Moorefeid's Eye and • Goluen Square Throat Hos- pital, London Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEA FO R.TH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also. at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday of each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. - AUCTIONEERS HASIOLD JACKSON , .Specialist in Farm and Household Bales. - •Licensed in- Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices ' reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed.z , For inforrnation, etc., write -or phone Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth, a • ', EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence' promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at. The. Huron Exposi- tor; Seaforth, or by. cnlltng Phone 203, Canton. Charges moderate .and satis- faction guaranteed, , LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. Exeter 10.34 Hensall ., 10.46 Kippers 10.52 Brucefteld' 11.00 Clinton 11.47 - SOUTH P.M. Clinton 3.08 Brumfield • 3.28 Kippen ' 3.38 Hensall 3.45 Deter ,,, t , 3.58 C.N.I. TIME TABLE r° '..t EAST _ A.M. P.M. Goderich .. , .. - . -- 6.15 • 2.30 Rolmesville .... 6.31 2.48 Clinton 6.43 3.00 Seaforth 6.59 3.22 St Columben 7.05 3.23 Dublin . 7.11 • 3.29 mUitcheil 7.24 3.41 WEST Stitch ell 11.06 10.01 Dublin 11.14 ,10.09 Seaforth 11.30 10.21 Clinton 11.45 '10.35 Gloderich 12.05 11.00 C.E.R. TIME TABLE EAST E.M. iltoderioh ' 4.35 Menest, , 4.40 McGaw 4.49 Auburn 4.58 Hlylth 5.09 Walton 5.21 tlf9eNaug'ht 5.32 Toronto 9.45 WEST ' A.M. Toronto ...................... 8.20 - P.M. SieNaught , 12.041 Walton r 15.15 Myth . 12:22 Auburn 12:99 caw; a .. 12:47 1Meneeipt-....1..... 12.54 etkederthh. 100 n yr 91'.,4 44,14 I neleenianiiieneonessiiisenesosespiensinsele CHAPTER XII SYNOPSIS Released from prison after serv- ing -fifteen years -.for a murder he didn't commit, Mark Gralnt goes to the office of a lawyer named Fos- dick to collect...'g legacy left to him while he was in prison. When Fosdick tells him he will have to ,•. wait, Mark accepts an invitation to a party to help Teddy Banks. win a bet with Archie Landon. Although Mark tells them his real name, Archie introduces him as "Stewart Byram." At the party Mark meets' Burleson, the man who sent him to prison and Burle- son's niece, Pamela Rodney. Bur- leson does not recognize him, and Mark decides not„to reveal his identity to Pam until he finds the, , real murderer. When Teddy Banks" learns Mark's identity from Fos- dick he tells Archie. Landon, jealous of Mark'a attentions to Pam, is on his way to Burleson's while Mark is. there telling Pam about the wager and about his prison term. Burleson recognizes ' .Mark anal realizes that he under- stands the significance of a jade god he has in his possession.. In a fury he smashes it. Mark tells ' Pam that, since Burleson, has the jade god, he must have been with his uncle after Mark left him. His testimony would prove that the murdered man was alive when Mark left him. After Mark leaves, Plan goes back to the library. • Then Pam slipped past that cur- tained arch and found the little door. in the corner;it opened into the lib- rary beside, the fireplace. It .was still in there; her first thought was that there' was no one in the room; the shades had not been drawn; a street - lamp flared garishly outside, the fire on the hearth was low -she had ': a sudden consciousness of the flowers on her tea table - gardenias, over- whelmingly sweet -"the flowers of the sweethearts," Mexicans call them. Then; beyond the shaded lamp, she saw the outline of her uncle's gray head. She thought he was asleep, his eyes were, closed, the red streak had faded into ashen gray, ' he looked ill. It seemed impossible that hes could be asleep atter all ,that violence! She saw the scattered bits of polished jade on the floor, 'shattered like poor Mark's hope of freedom long -ago, - She stooped softly •and began to pick up the fragments.- She found -the head unhurt, green beard' and all, and the distorted mouth grinnedup- at her. She had it in her band when she lift- ed her eyes aga9n and. found Burleson watching her: - "Throw that thing away, Pam!" he said sharply.. But she did not; she'came nearer, holding out her pink palm with the green head on it. . "Uncle Herbert, Mark's uncle bought that when they were .together fc* the last time; bought it for you and' he had it when Mark saw him last. He gave it to you afterwards," she paused, letting her words sink in,,, t's cruel, it's wicked. Uncle Herbei;t, you must have .known something; there was someone else; why didn't you say so?" " •'He considered her, his head sunk between his thin high shoulders. She was so splendidly young and to cruel in, her youth. "Suppose I suspected," he said slowly, "suppose I' didn't know, but if I'd said a word it w'o'uld have pulled down a family, a good wife, sons or daughters, and proved nothing -per- haps!" "Then you did suspect!" she cried. ",You did, and you let Mark go - for some old sinner in ,high place!" "I didn't say that; I said, 'suppose.'" "You meant it! Was any old man worth Mark's splendid youth, Uncle? He couldn't be!" "Perhaps his people were. Think of the disgrace." - "Think of it? Yes!" she cried, fling- ing the little greenhead down, "think of what he's got to face -Mark! He won't let me face it with him. He re- fused to let me do it." "You mean.. you asked this -this ex - convict to marry yon, Pam?" he cried, Sitting up in his chair. • "He wanted me -he wouldn't take me because of this. Uncle Herbert, I love him. Oh, please, please help me clear him!" She crumpled 'down again on her knees beside his chair, clinging to his hand, sobbing, "I'm so wretched!" she wept. "I *anted to go with him -and he wouldn't take "Good heavens!" the old man mur- mured to himself. He felt no impulse of rages now, only they weakness that follows; it. How extraordinary these, new girls were! Then he added, loud: "That's decent of him. -I be- gin to like him, Pam." "Oh, you'd like him. He's splendid -bets big -he's ' generous, - and he's suffered! It isn't right, •Uncle Her- bert, where's -.your old suspect? Fat and sleek somewhere, getting older and older -no use presently -and all Mark's splendid youth gone like this." "He'll live it down. He's young,"' Burleson argued 'hoarsely.' "Besides, who knows? There are often death- bed confessions, one inay clear him presently." She scorned that. "Do you think a man who'd done that -and let youth suffer for.it-would confess?" she de - Mended fui•Tanirlf '•" He nodded, moving his long fingers restlessly- on 'the - arms Orbit 'chair, "He might, Pam." "He wouldn't. Uncle Herbert, you'll clear him for me;•wont you?" "Do you care so much, child?" She lifted that flowerlike face •cif hors. "It's killing me -he's so 'brave, I can't bear it, that he should be call- ed -that!" • "Suppose I'd done it, Pam? Would you want me -at my time of life -to go' out and confess it? When the boy's taken his punishment and he's only to start fresh?"-.._ - He leaned back 'in his chair, study- ing her. "I tell you what I can do, Pam," he said finally. ' "I've offered "Gond heavens!" the old man murmured to himself. but he said nothing, only looked in- to -do it already -told Fosdick I can tently 'at her, "Don't you see?" she help him to a new chance." • - pleaded, "he gave it to you after Mark • She scorned that. "You mean mon- left him. He *as killed after that. ey? That's nothing! He can work - You can clear Mark, ifyou will!" •I know he'd rather." "Oh, can I?" hit gay lined face : "I didn't mean just money -I've got was cruel when he twisted his lips a little pull on the railways. I could like that! , help him to a good berth. Pm like' The girl looked steadily at him with you, in a way, I think he should have the eyes of youth. "Yes, you can! a new chance." You, must-" She came nearer. "Un- "I don't think anything matters .half cle Herbert, try to remember - you- so touch as his good name, Uncle Her - must! He can't be left like this -he heft." She was still on her knees be - didn't do it!" side •him; she twined her arms about Burleson returned 'her look steadily, ; his arm and be]d him. "Who was his grayness seemed to increase, for the man you suspected?" the tempest of -his anger had left him weak. "Why are you so sure he didn't do it?" he asked raspingly. She broke at, that, soddenly Childish and forlorn. "I know -I love him!" He was dumbfounded, "Extraordin- ary!" he said, after a moment. "You young girls now -good Lord, what would Your grandmothers have said?" "Who cares?" Pain stormed. "We're young -youth has a right to live!" "And'age -bas to clear out, eh?" his tare twisted again into his mocking smile. "If it stands inthe way ; of life -- yes!" she cried cruelly: "Think of all Mark's Iost--fifteen. years of .,youthl "That was only a' suppbsitious case, Pam," he said hoarsely. "1 suspect no one at all." She gazed at him wide-eyed. "You're not telling me the truth, Uncle Her- bert!" "I'm not -what?" he asked' fiercely, frowning. ' "You're treating me like a baby. I'in not -I'm a woman and I love a man you helped send to prison. Yes, you did!' YOU testified against shim." i urlesdn seised her • young . wrists •and taiga her to her feet; 4.0. had to rise to 'do it. • . ' '` Itifr ; Volt . hasten t You go and sit doattia'nd Iihten! I'm •going to put it up to your." .4 ' 1 War Gardens She obeyed h tShe `thea Much well depend upon the extent y l; , of the vegetable war Barden as to the ght he was going into one of his tempers but she nq longer ' cared. She was too .gtiserable. She sat clown• at the library table, a limp, smalll$gure, and waited`,- watching him. , He was gray er than ever, but ..there ¢as fire in his eyes. He leaned toward her, talking slowly, striking the arms of his ,chair sometimes." "Suppose I did help send this tyle of crops grown in it. If the plot 'tis; very tiny, then authorities advise Ceitcentratjng on• those ivegetables which give the biggest yield. This Means small, compact things like an- o{ts, carrots, beets. lettuce, radish spinach, beans and possibly a few staked 'tomatoes. With the first five ,items, -evep ten feet of row, if given little attention in the way of thin- ning, cultivation, and perhaps water- ing and fertilizer, should produce three or four good meals for the fair- sized- family. And as the rows can be spaced a mere foot apart, a plot a dozen feet each way will grow 'a lot of crop. Spinach and' beans take a little more space but 20 feet or row will furnish several meals. • Tomatoes will taiF'e up more room, 'but if staked can go in about 18 inch- es apart.' One plant.,,will grow a hig • basket of tomatoes,- and if all side - shoots are nipped off and the pla^t tied loosely to a six -pat stake it will ripen the fruit surprisingly early. • It isn't worthwhile growing bulky things like potatoes in the tiny vege- table garden, and a winter's supply of carrots, onions, beets, etc., should not be attempted. Corn and peas take up • a lot of room but because they aro never so tasty or so full of vitamins I as when taken right out of the garden at the back door, sometimes even city gardeners try to squeeze them in. Garden corn should be grown in hills about 15 to 18 inches apart. To'• supply the small family with a real I'taste, at least a dozen hills of corn are necessary and from 40 to 60 feet of row of peas.. The real role of the small urban or town vegetable garden should be to supply the owner with fresh salad ma- terial -lettuce, radishes, onions, etc. -and as many meals as possible ot', really fresh vegetables during the summer. Only if one has a fair-sized plot of land, something running up to a quarter of an acre, is it possible fo attempt.. a full summer's supply and. sufficient for early winter storage too., ' When To Plant Flowers and vegetables divide them - serves into three general groups - hardy, .semi -hardy and tender. In the seed catalogues and on the packets these are the general descriptions us - to prison," he said bitingly, "Suppose I testified against him -what then? It as mese routine. I knew his uncle well --I knew him•. -a little; he was a boy, tall, lanky, hot' tempered, some- thing of a dare -devil and the uncle was hard and close=as nails, fleshed a way of sayingg taunting thih•gs; he could be insulting-politel( Suppose then, someone killed him, struck him down, found that it fitted on to the nephew like a glove -he'd been there, and all that. Suppose he let it go at that and the boy took the punish- ment, got through with it and, had his chance to make his life over. D'yoti suppose the other mann-secure and - comfortable and rich -would step down to prison to clear him -after fifteen' years?" "No," she, replied clearly, "I don't think he would unless you made him. He's too' bad a •Aran. A man who lets another suffer for him is. wicked!" He stared at 'her; a man of affairs, a man of the world, arguing with a child! His face twisted again into that ironical smile, but he looked ill and gray. "You're right. No one would.- That's ould:That's why it• wouldn't do me any good to shout out suspicions at this day. The issue's dead, I couldn't induce any man"to step, down from his place and disgrace himself for a -nobody!" "Wouldn't he?" She leaned back in her chair, her eyes brave. "I dot;'t see why: He's got nothing to lose." "Nothing to lose?" he repeated, as- tonished. • "No, nothing! He, lost everything year's ago when he let a young ,man suffer for him. He's worse than a murdered. He's a coward." I,'iurleson's face changed; its gray- ness seemed to deepen• but his eyes burped brighter; he studied the girl, moving his fingers along the arms of his chair again. She met his look un- flinchingly, her head up. "Any man's a coward who 'lets an- other take his- punishment," she de- clared. , ' - He nodded. "Admitted," he said dryly; ," }tut sometimes there are -ex- tenuating circumstances," She shook' her head. "No!" _ He made' no reply; he sat for a long while, apparently thinking; once or twice • he glanced toward the win- dows.. It was dark outside• except for the fantastic lights in the street. All the while,,he was aware of the young girl at his table. She had stretched out a slender -.hand and picked up an old pen and was scratching it aim- lessly about, without ink, on a bit of paper. He 'new her fingers shake. She .was so young that she seelned•no more than a child to him, and she had offered to face an old disgrace with a convict -•because she loved him., It was only fancy, of 'course; she had not known the young man long! But he ,tested her again.• "You think you love this fellow?" he asked her dryly; "this- convict?" he barked the word at her, She tried to answer quietly, .but her courage , failed her, she broke down. "It's killing me to think of hi'm-fac- ing all this -arid he' wouldn't take me with. him! It's terrible to face it- and to be elope, too!." she sobbed, and suddenly she stretched her arms out on the table and laid her head down on them, weeping violently. He watched her intently, the young head ,prone, the slender young shoul- ders "shaken with sobs. Grief had her, grief -poignant, innocent, consuming -as the child's first tears over ar dead canary. Suddenly he rose and put his' hand gently upon her head. Her soft hair was like ,a child's too. He re- membered his dead little son. He was a -lonely old man, after all! Youth and the thrill' of its appeal, its de- mand for happiness, began tq pene-' trate the armor of This age and his worldinese. The nshe broke out again. "Some- onedid it -and I don't see how he .can think of it, think of leaving Mark to face his sine, and sleep at night!" Burleson gave 'her a- long look -a look she did not see. "Maybe he doesn't, Pam," • he said dryly. "Come to think of it, I don't believe he does!" "He ought to die!" she cried fierce- ly. "He ought to have died long ago!" "Good God!" . said Burleson below his breath, and turned away. (Continued Next Week) , An effective and prcatical method of clearing a dandelion -infested lawn, other than' by hand diggings, is by' wing iron -sulphate as a spray, The Bliss Triumph potato, which is imported into Canada during the win- ter and early spring months,: is mown extensively in the Maritime Provinces s"dr tilted pii'rpoaed for export' to Cuba, the West Indies, aid the •Stiuthern ttAlted 'Sta'ted, It originated In Oh neetiout Yt 1878. Fingerprint Camera Under the chairmanship of Reeve V, D. Falconer, of Clinton, the police committee of Huron County Council met last Wednesday in Goderich. Quarterly reports of' constables were reviewed and accounts scrutinized. The purchase ofa fingerprint camera was authorized and constables will be instructed in its use by High Con- stable Frank Fox. -Clinton .News -Re- cord. Extra Sugar The newt that the Ration Adminis- tration of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board has declared a sugar "dividend" for use with garden rhu- barb will be especially welcome to rural women who grow their own. ' Country and city dwellers alike wel- come rhubarb as the first Canadian grown fruit of the. year. The extra sugar, along with the regular ration, will enable good use' to ,be made of this garden crop. Each holder of Ration Book No. 2 is .entitled to one pound of sugar for use with garden••,rhubarb. Blue cou- pon No. 1 (Spare $) will be good from April 1st to May 31st for this purchase. After June 1st, sugar for canning rhubarb and other fruits will be avail - ed, and this i;ttfosppallen. ,p 'ovides t o key to planting time in ainy part ,t t, the Dominion. The first group -cap be 'Put in- just as soon as the soil is at to- 'work, which is when it crianables and opt packs into a ball when squeezed.. Among the very hardy are spinach, lettuce; radish and peas:; among the vegetables; and most of the poppies, cosmos, batchelor buttons and sweet peas, among the Sowers. In •the semi -hardy line, vegetables and flowers which will stand a ligbt ,frost or 'two, would be carrots, beets, beans, potatoes and cern in the vege- table line, and zinnias, calendulas,. ealliopsis in the flowers. Tender plants will not stand any frost at all. In this line are the mel- ons, •cuefimbers, • peppers, pumpkins, among the vegetables, and gladiolus, dahlias, cannas, in_ flowers. NEXT WEEK -Inter -cropping, Fast Growth For Tenderness. able to those who have applied for it on the special ford provided in the ration book. Sticks of Lig} trying At the Royal Ontario 'Museum we noticed examples of an odd mineral called "fulgurite" or "lechatelierite." They were hollow, white tubes, smooth on the inside and rough on the outside. • We found that when. light - ming strikes the earth it tries to go straight down, seeking its opposite electrical pole. In going • through sand, the intense heat sometimes fus- es, together the quarts grains of'which - the sand is composed, leaving behind Dr. ase95 Nerve Food CONTAINS VITAifiIN B1 • these thin cylinders: wl h can 1: picked out and removed-, In parts of the world where sand 'i'me are prevalent there are numerous. f; gurites,'some- many: feet long fragij fantastic sticks of "lightning in sand Y T(RIN1TQ Hotel WaverleySnots* ME; "ATecorztosi4,0 RAZES SINGLE .;7,.¢9 `to f3.o0 I> WEI to $6.00 Weekly `M mt6l�r R tea A MOiD,RN .... QUILT ... WELL CONDUCTED .. . 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As many steps or details can be presented as the story demands, and, in addition; the lapse of time can be shown:' Consider the •picture shown here of the small boy completing an air- plane model. As a single "story- telling" picture it's excellent. But couldn't this story be told even more impressively by a step-by-step pic- ture sequence? The first pictlare • in such a 'se- quence, might show the youngster poring over blueprints. The sec- ond, laying out material on a work table. The third, forming the skele- ton -on the model. And so on until finally, with a, proud smile, he launches the plane for its first flight. - This Is but an outline. Probably you can think of other steps, but that's part of , the fun of planning and executing such a picture story. It's like writing a movie scenario - and there are dozens of simple everyday stories around any home -that can be told easily and best in sequence form. " See if you can't think of at least one or two today. 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