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The Huron Expositor, 1945-10-26, Page 7( a t 4. 4 t* • auaWam,snanmuYilMiginwaagu." ' • rorie**moO.O4ileu 0..(41$1313,31 Ilaye 0047611*; Telephone 174 K. I. MeLEAN 13arrister, Solicitor, ate, -13EAFORTH - ONTARIO Branch Offiee'- Hensall Hensall Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 175 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E A. IVICMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic arid therapeutics eauipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the. Clinic the first Tuesday in, every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Irree Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones.: Office 5-W Res. 54 Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon. Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W - : Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 430 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic Erst Tuesday of each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS • HAROLD JACKSON • Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD If you want to realize greater re- turns from your -auction sales of live stock and farm ecmipment, ask those who know and have heard me. Fif- teen years' experience. Sales con- ducted anywhere. For sale dates, Phone 28-7, Granton, at 'my expense. 3979-tf LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. London, Lv. 9,00 Exeter 10.17 Hensaij .10,34 Kippen 10.43 Brucefield 10,55 Clinton, .Ar. 11.20 SOUTH P.M. Clinton, Lv. 3.10 Brucefield 3.32 3.44 Hensall 3.53 Exeter' 4.10 London, Ar. 5.25 Kippen C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.15 2.30 Holmesville . 6.31 2.50 Clinton 6.43 3.13 Seaforth 6.59 3.21 SL Columban 7.05 3.27 Dublin 7.12 3.35 Mitchell 7.25 3.47 WEST Mitchell 11.27 10.33 Dublin 11.37, 10.44 St. Columban 11.40 Seaforth 11.51 10.56 Clinton 12.04 11.10 Goderich 12.35 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST Goder01 Meneset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton fMcNaught Toronto Toronto OOOOOOOO 0.600 WEST Moblaiight" . OOOO e•41•6 . .,.,, Walton. Blyth 6 4 - . Auburn 611eflaw 4•,,. OOO . . - ,-, Mettoset mobio•.a•OMee &Merl& ••YroON2,itikdi.1.**44.1 ' • • P.M. 4.35 4.40 4.49 4.58 5.09 5.21 ummortmu.vwurammora; "rt TTER, • (Qcritinued fFeun last week) QH,&PTER IV SHALLOW STREAMS AND DEEP SEAS It was the evening of the day When that white face, which Aplin and his mate fetched out of the wreckage, was laid away in the chuachyard 'on the hillside, amongst ()theist whose headstones announced that they were "drowned at sea." The survivors had already gone to Bristol. The schoon- er had become a total wreck that night, with nothing left that was worth salvaging; and the affair was being used for the purpose Of having a lifeboat. stationed at 'the old port. It had been one of those days ofdull, cold, pitiless rain which sometimes mark late autumn, and a drizzle still falling, accompanied by a south -south- easter. Derreck, .to whom the day had proved one of "hard work and no profit," was reading one of the French books that he hought,two.and a half years before, for the purposei of helping him to better his condi- tion. It was Hugo's immortal story of Breton fishing folk,' and the sight of it made Bella uneasy in a peculiar way. She was always the same when she saw him with one of those books.; they reminded her that she was rob- bing him of his life's purpose, of the ambition - that was still almost as dear to his heart as she was herself, and her conscience pricked her. Be - rides, Bella was no reader beyond the daily paper, and a few of those cheap romances which the ignorant take to be true representations of life in higher social walks than their 'own. What interest persons could find in other books she had never been abld to understand. She was ironing at the time, and as she went to and fro between the fire and the table she threw- askant looks at him and the book; till, at length, unknown to him, she began to. hate the volume in a mild sort of fashion. It was cheat- ing her, she considered, of the live part of his company -his talk. Sev- eral times she tried to start a 'con- versation on this or that triviality in the daily life around therh, in each case some piece of gossip that had, no interest for hiro, and to which he made little or no reply. At last, piq- ed and hardly troubling, to hide it, she asked: "What are you reading?" He looked up, drew his mind from the story and answered her.. question, seeing yet deeming it politic not to notice her humour. "Win, I thought you had the fam- ily history, per'aps, and was just find- ing how the property was cheated away, by the way you were wrapped up ln it," said she, in that rather gen- ially sarcastic manner of which she was nota little proud, and was about her strongest superficial trait. "I Certainly don't know what you're chattering about, Bella." With that he put the book down and proceeded to fill his pip. At .the moment this was enough for her; she had gained her purpose, was prepared to be pleasant and to leave dormant that canker which had rather troubled her Low and then during the past few days -in fact since Mary had hasten- ed to assist her to make herself de- cent in time to welcome Derreck in- to the house, when the survivors had been taken to -the Blue Anchor. Un- forttinately, howeVer, Derreck added at once, as he looked across at the child asleep on the sofa, "Don't you think it would be wiser to keep Alice awake more, till -her bedtime? Then she wouldn't disturb us so much in the night." Without meaning to offend in the. least, he had • touched two sore points: Her bad training of. the child, as was so often reiterated by Mrs. Kingsworth, and shown in Alice's fretful, passionate, wilful disposition; and her own obstinance against bet- ter judgment, Having lit his pipe, be asked: "Don't you think so?" "No, I don't!" she answered sharp- ly. 'I suppose your' mother's been at it again!" "No, mother hasn't," he quietly in- terrupted "Putting you up. to say unkind things! I wonder what woman could keep straight wi9.,4such a mother-in- law about her? -always nagging, nag - Ing oti something or other! I declare it's enough to make a stone heart ache! I .can never do anything right -I can't! , I never have since I came down here arid I never shall, that's plain!" And down went the hot iron on the table, to lie there and burn whatever the face of it touched. Bell, la flung herself into the nearest chair, put her apron to her eyes, and sob- bed as though her heart was truly broken. Meanwhile, she declared in passionate snatches that Alice was 612 hers and nobody should inierfere be - 9.45 tween her and her child. He burnt /is hand In hastily removing the ir- on, then managed to quieten Bella. "I suppose your mother would have ,been satisfied if you'd married MarY," said she, in+k_petulant significance, .1Sgielt the Ironing /wag resumed. 'What did She Say to Mary on the et the vvreiliti" sheluquired, feel- ing a victory in his silence. ,• "1 deal -know Avila ..she turd A.M. 8,20 12r5- 12104 .12.89 124? 12.64 1.00 I don't know What you mean," Was his,....Arathful and half -indifferent swer, • -4Don't you?"Bella asked 'tiered*, lously. "What did she say -out in the road there, when Mary went red to the roots of her hair?" that," said he, now recollect- ing the incident, and momentarily feeling awkward by the fact that Bel- la had struck a truth in which she had just cause of complaint. "Yes, it's 'Oh, that,' when the truth comes home! -isn't it? But 'it's `oh something else,' when poor me is the butt the time." "I've told you before, Bella -:-you're no more a 'biatt than I am-" "Why didn't you keep me from be- ing a butt three days ago then?" He looked ,at her questioningly, puzzled. She understood his glance and add- ed, "When you came down the quay side-by-side with Mary, just as if she was your wife, not me!" At last she was 'disturbing, that canker which the gale had discovered to her. "If you had no worse thoughts of that affair than Mary and I had, you'd say nothing at all about it," "Oh! shouldn't I? It's all very well' to talk like that when all the town was 'looking, at you, and your mother saying things that made Mary blush crimson before everybody. Be quiet, Alice! -or P11.-" she took up the child and her threatening manner had the desired effect. "I wish to good- ness they'd carried me to the grave- yard today instead of that poor man! -that I do!" "Bella, Bella! -what are you talk- ing about?" "And don't you think it's enough to make me say it, when my mother- in-law makes me a dog's life and my husband is in love with another wo- man?" "I'm not in love with Mary," he re- plied, in absolute quietude. Instead of his manner having an assuring effect on her, she flared up all the more because of it; and went accusingly through the whole of his and Mary's combined actions 'on the occasion of, the rescue, till finally she flung out, "And I shouldn't be sur- prised if something's gone amiss be- tween you already!" "Bella!" Stung to the depth of his nature, he wheeled suddenly and fac- ed her. His brown eyes were gleam- ing with anger, and about his mouth there was such an expression as she did not remember to have seen there before. The effect on her was a sud- den and chastening one. With her eyes averted from him, vaguely fear- ing his manner and feeling the cow- ardliness of her • accusation -made wholly in anger and unbelieved by herself -she remained silent, rocking the child to .her breast. As for her own affair with young Aplin -she had meant no harm -in it; she had done nothing wrong. Therefore, to her loose way of thinking, there was no need for her to feel guilty, or that she .had "no room" to accuse Der- reck. Besides, excusingly, it had on- ly been when Derreck was away; and no more than "the time o' day" had passed between her and Bob since Derreck came home in the brig, "I've told you that I'm not in love with Mary," he added, with a firm- ness of manner and tone that kept her ,quiet. I respect her; and a man, must be bad at 'heart, or have some sort of love for a woman, before he can have any shady, dealings with her." "Anyway, if you're not in love with her, she is with you, I'll be bound!" Bella sharply interrupted. He re- mained silent, and she presently add- ed: "And that's about the same thing in the long run -generally." "I don't know that11.will be in this case," said he quietly, as he re -lit his pipe, then rubbed soap, on his burnt hand. "Oh! then she is in love with you?" In this query there was a ring of mingled surprise, certainty, injury and new accusation. She paused in hushing Alice, to look at him with fresh courage. He went to the sofa and sat down, smoking in silence. "So that's it -is it? I thought there was a bit of something more than admira- tion in it all. And she Comes here all the time as my friend! -a regular sister to me! - doing all sorts- of things) that some sisters wouldn't! Nice! -Isn't it? -Very!" His only reply was- a puffif smoke as he looked steadily at the 'tall, old, brass candlesticks on the high can- telplece; and she rattled on in that curiously flippant anger which was so much a Dart of ber whole self. Un- like Bella, it was not in him to "braz- en it out." Truth always: cornered him, and he must either argue out the position quietly and logically, or pit silent and let matters take their course. He was in no -wise naturally 'brilliant; but he possessed those, two British characteristics, thoroughness and steady applicatidu. He knew ho to plod without dullness, and wha his mind took in It kept. Ott.the oth- er hand -Bella usually jumped at things, or she never saw there; and they cointionly went out of her tlieughts as quickly as they mitered. That Web tvhy expeeted no fieriinie trouble to grow oft of this affair.. Purther discussion was etoed bY the entre 4.4014.00Orth, bit the old man saw 'that M4t.grs were not going pleasantly, and soon went out again. When he was gone, Bella, who could, not let themslihject alone, said: "And I suppose Mir Mother knows all about it;' too; that's why-..-" "1 "I don't suppose mother knowany- thing about it -I hope She doesn't-" "She wants me out of the way and Mary in my place--it-would get you all into better company than you can _ever have while I'm on the scene." ' It was not her nature to ask for confirmation, or otherwise, of an idea; hers was the Weakness to ac- cuse, then to accept refutation gen- erally. Again Bella was wrong, and he knew it, but said nothing; for one of •Mrs. Kingsworth's peculiarities lay in her being content .to grub along with her little shop and her freedom of speech, while her burning ambition was that Derreck should move in bet- ter company, •should be something more in his native place than Quay Town folks and their sons and daugh- ters Were generIlly. At length Bella remarked that her head ached, 'this being Said in a tone that showed how near was the fit of penitence, which regularly followed a tantrum or ,a drinking bout, was one of her most pardoning traits yet, be- cause of her general 'Weakness mor- ally, never lasted long. He said he was sorry and advised , her to stop work; but she continued, saying - "It's a great pity, DerXY, that you ever saw me -you'd have been miles happier if you never had," He saw that tears were at hand, wished to stay them and replied kind- ly, "Don't trouble about that, Bella. All you've got to do is to leave the drink alone and-" "Oh, brit I can't forget how much better' off you'd be with Mary!" Al- ready there was a sob, and her head hung over her work. . "Look here, Bella -you leave the drink alone and we'll give Mary no more encouragement to come here . . . What do ycki say? . .. Let's be for each 'other only and as happy as we used to be." He was looking straight at her, his pipe in his hand, and his quiet tones full of appeal. Unlike his mother and - 00W 4:0? ;RYPr- PO:.1r:04100,, 444 I , :)?ean iJ 4,cfrOt0yf oaalixtp ,,hraPeeo ttiof,i,.e 090 -344 :P,ItY,9'•197,,,t. which they bade tole M101414.' and the Prospects- •Nvere pittg Frain iaira with 0,40 vmsted,,Y.eare and that bitter pathos which lay the fact that things colitfiiieven. again be what they had been. ,Yet the witeek was worth anOther palvage, a pew kind of Due; and here it was -put Bella back on to herself morally, and have no Mary corning and going to arinoy her. He added again, "What do you say? . . . I don't want Mary coming here. And if you'll-" • ,- Footsteps sounded without. The back -door Opened, closed again. Some- one passed through the kitchen scul- lery, and Mary stood between thimi, seeing that something was wrong and questioningly looking from one to the other. Tall and fair, straight and some- what full of figure; the pallor and the melancholy which' had marked her when she returned with Mr. Mil- roy now passing slowly -away, yet the black frock seeming tollake her fine, face paler than what it really was, there Mary stood for a minute or so, gazing at husband and wife. It was her habit to slip in after this fash- ion Whenever her household duties permitted; only by doing so could she maintain any watch and ward Over Bella, who took occasional op- portunities of Mary's absence to give way to her craving for drink. Thui neither Derreck nor Bella were in the least surprised at her suciden• ap- pearance. At the same time both of them were naturally set at a brief disadvantage by Mary's inopportune entrance. Without moving more.,than the necessary muscles he continued to smoke. Bella went to the fire on the pretext of changing her irons; in reality to wipe her eyes. Turning towards the table and tak- ing off a mackintosh -cloak, which she had thrown over her head to keep it and her shoulders dry, Mary said, in that naturally "quiet, pleasant manner which was her plainest characteris- tic and seemed to be so essentially a part of her true self - "What is the matter with you two?" She stepped aside to throw her cloak over the back of a chair. Hus- band and wife were silent. Her thoughts were still in a muddle. He had already decided that it would be better to leave all the talking to Bel- la; then the whole matter would, per - 4'401 4 174'P: a*,tgira # 40** 1rp : .4: 0: Plea 1444.49,17 90,1,Ag0 40,. p.03" 04 •.0?,' :., to -"tart7tbi4g 9J!.$0- Mary and asked," "D.00at T*: DeFreek g4lnarsd: raontl, .tOwat„ M rNYO?,'" said she, i)t; a few drops"; and the moOn, Is begin, ring to come out." "Then I think ni just.,go into All - lilt's abdut that gear I lent the old man, 'then down and see father about the morning -tide," said he, more to Belle, than to Mary and without look- ing at either of them. This was mere- ly his pretext for leaving them toge- ther, which henowthought to be the best way out of the ' difficulty. He was on his feet, seeming - Mary did -to be taller than he was in reality,. owing to that old, low ceil- ing. Bella's back was still in their direction. Derreck's and Mary's eyes - met, as he moved towards the door-. way into' the kitchen. Her gaze ask- ed what the fresh trouble was, 'and carried with it a touch of sorrow that there should be any unpleas- antness. In his there was- a curious suggestion of coldness, a sort of mind - your -own -business expression, that simply and unheededly -puzzled Mary at the moment, mostly because she had never seen it there before; and in part because she, like he, was ra- ther slow and sure in absorbing an idea. Yet he was only trying to be quite impartial. Knowing that Bella would afterwards fasteri on anything he should say just then, and see in it what he never intended it to mean, he deemed that the wisest course was silence; but in the constraint of the situation he unwittingly gave Mary the impression, that he was in some degree offended at her. And the more unfortunate part of it all was that her erroneous idea was quickly to receive confirmation. In fact it was an impression, brief and hardly noticed in tin& few seconds of silence, that, added to by immedi- ately subsequent events, was to cause Mary more bitter pain than had pre- viously fallen to her share. In the interval he had quickly slip- ped on his pea -jacket and a cap. With his hand on the door -latch, he said: "I shan't be long, Bella." Then• in a half -unstudied change of tone, which was meant merely to assure his wife , that she was more to him •PiaR could be and that he stilI"deeite4.(41•..•. make the offered coraProMise,1:fe eluded, as their eyes' met again4a,,, "Good -night, Mary -if I dent see yon",•: later?' And out he swung, clattering.,thel door more than- he intended to, ua- meaningly leaving an ominous atmos,- phere behind him,' and in Mary's mind a sense of ,something- that was '• new, painful and hard to understand; •:‘ for in that last exchange of, glances it seemed to her that tliete was a curious depth of suppressed grief in his eyes. CHAPTVR_ AN ILL WINIf TO' MARY ' Standing by the table, with ono hand resting on it and her gaze ea's- ually fixed on the back of Bella's head, Marl remarked: "I'm sorm there's trouble again, Bella - what is it?" "Oh, you know well enough -.,- any- how you ought to!" was the answer that Bella snapped into the fire. "Me'? Why, whatever's wrong? I can't see' what you mean;" and she moved around the table, wondering, as her tone plainly implied; yet not seriously affected, nor thinking that' anything very important had happen- ed. So far she was only surprised, greatly, but nothing more; next ix prominence being a desire to see Bella's face. "Can't You, indeed!" Now Mary noticed the sarcasm in Bella's tones and replied more firm- ly, "No, I really can't.;' (Continued Next Week) ,...taa'ati•isriaaraariatiatetefa IININBEIgtaBOBBEVAMIWg •wf••47,-..,4,•rowo..,m641K;i4malm.••6...mo2,64•14t,:.,*mma.wrontim.w.c.%-, . . and someday, WE'LL take a trip!" OMFOVHERE in the back of your mind, there's that urge to go places. Right now it must be filed under "Future" but it's part of us as Canadians to want to discover for ourselves what the rest of the world is like -to plan for that "some day," when we'll take a trip! That's why it must be part of our planning now, to make sure such pleasant things as ,trips are possible in the post-war world. And they'll be possible only if we fight against inflation -fight now to keep Canada's dollar worth a full dollar! Why is NOW, so important? Be- causg NO*.civilian goods are scarce, money is plentiful. NOW is the time we must guard against ,paying more than thing** worth -against black markets -against buying more than we twee* dit 'goods we don't need! NOW is the time we must support rationing and price controls! Up to the present, we've kept our dollar sound. And we can continue to do so if we keep up a strong, steady fight against inflation! If we fail in this fight, prices will rise. Wages will never quite catch up. Soon you'll pay, perhaps a dollar fora quarter's worth of goods! And that means your dollar is worth only a quarter! That's inflation. And after inflation, comes' de- pression. Depression means neither you nor anyone else in Canada will have trips. You'll be lucky if you have a job! So, for our own sakes, for the sake of returned men, for our children, let's never relax our suugglc to keep Canada's dollar worth a full dollar! POiliklytpT101 nttrtViald INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) to isviislhe' wrogliti Make this Pledge Today! 1 pledge myself to do my part in fighting inflation: By observing rationing and 1avoiding black markets in any shape or form. By respecting price controls and other anti-inflation measures, and re- fraining from careless and unneces- sary buying. I will not buy two where one will do, nor will I buy a "new" where an "old" will do. By buying {Wary Snack and War Savings •Stattiptii SattOriiing talt;•• etiott and abiding hi:01010 measures Cosi„.4t hehiloftoot,,",' t'",, , t, • met