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PAUL BRERETON, a famous wealthy artist. At 48, as far as a man may, he understands woman. Certainly far more than FLIGMHMT LIEUTENANT RONNY VEâ€" who is very much in love. ... SONIA, who may not have been much of an actress but had other and perhaps greater qualities. DR. MARY BARNWELL was not merely a good doctor, but a charming woâ€" man.. . She was in love with Brereâ€" ton, and the woman in the picture which Paul Brereton painted in Paris. Synopsis of Previous Chapters TAUL FRERETON, a middle aged artist of great repute and personal charm, comes to live at Cheriton after a long residence in Paris. The fact that he buys a large house and exhibits every sign of being wealâ€" thy, excites a good deal of interest lecally: but there is even greater interâ€" est in the report that he is a bachelor.: (Now Read On) BREEXETCN UNDERSTANDSâ€" =HE WAS DELIGHTEFULLY YOUNG On his way back, Fossick noticed Paul Breoreton reading the poster outâ€" side the tswn hall which advertised the exhibition of the work of the members of the local Arts and Craft Society. The gardener had spent his life in Cheriton without visiting this annual show. Eut Brereton was always ready t, do anything once. It was faintly depressing, like all such exhibitions, and consisted in the main of the work of earnest amateurs and the product of surplus feminine energy. Pottery, needlework, metalâ€" work, wcesdâ€"cuts, pictures and photoâ€" graphs optimistically arranged, and perhaps a dozen citizens were comâ€" templating the exhibits with varying degrees of interest and intelligence. "Can I help you, sir?" a young lady inquired politely. ("I‘m a member of the committee," she toald him. She was delightfully yvoung in years, dress and manners. Twenty, perhaps, with eyes of that rare lapisâ€"lazuli which a paintâ€" er would notice even more than an ordinary man. Her hair was long and coiled round her shapely head in a lovely plait. "Is there any cof your work in the show?" he asked. "One or two very insipid waterâ€" chneml colours," she said. "Why insipid? o paint insipid pictures ‘"Because I can‘t | "I like doing it, but "Good gracious!" "I‘m an undergraduate at, Oxford." "On mature consideration, I think I do need assistance," Paul Brereton said. "I should be obliged if you would show me round, Is anything for sale?" "Yes and no,‘" she smiled. "And what does that mean?" "We are all willing to sellâ€"we‘re all hard upâ€"but we never do sell anything â€"that is,~ excepting Mr. Heriot, of course. He‘s our big noise. He has actually had pictures on the line at the Academy." "Really!" Paul Brereton said. "That‘s one, for example. A lovely sense of distance he always gets into his work." "A very sense of colour," Brereton said as he contemplated the picture she had indicated. ‘"That is his, too?" he added, turning to another picture. "How did you know? It‘s quite different type." "Put the Same feeling for colour." "Are you an artist?" she asked. "In a Wiy"* "Mr. Heriot is the art master at the local scheol." "Poor ‘Aevil!" She glanced at him in silence. "I mean that he‘s an artist, and it must be G@readful to attempt to teach art. â€" It‘$ thq tme thing which cannot be taught.‘ "I‘m sure vou re wrong. He‘s one of ‘"I‘m sure YOu‘re wrong. Hes one ol the happiest men I know." ‘"*"That‘s cddâ€"if he is an artist." "HMe loves his workâ€"his real work, I mean. And he‘s quite fond of his teaching. He has a lovely cottage, and a lovely wife He plays bridge splenâ€" didly and is extremelyv good looking, and they have two positively adorable baby giris." "You made it all sound quite fasctâ€" nating. That picture of an old workâ€" man in hfirn is also his?" "Is that for sale?" "It‘s marked in the catalogue at thirty guineas,." she said with a smile. "He always puts an absurd figure like that on his pictmes It‘s one of his jukes "HMe has mwm.sense of humour, too?" "HMe certainly has." cheque "She looked "Thirty guine: "@Quite." "I don‘t sup until the exh ishes on Satu To "Then IT‘ll make the picture on Satu "There som somewhere with them." she said. on. I do hopbe he here. ‘Paul Brerei{ as she glanced at t ed to her. â€" "Paul the Paul Brereton? you are. T heard Cheriton House. " haven‘t seen any C He has mw.sense of He certainly has." I should like that PLBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENXT 1€ course n e chequ bi at t paint," she said. but actually I‘m a in the catalogue at he said with a smile. an absurd figure like ures. It‘s one of his elon, _ shne went on the cheque he handâ€" i1 Brereton. Are you 2 But I can see that that you had taken Thank goodness you of my pictures." Why â€" consciously Do I give vou a vou can have it over. It finâ€" ites Inge. A im do I make amazement serious?" and collect . may." red labels ainted . on r stick one i while I‘m e went on e he handâ€" n. Are vou UNDERSTANDS a" “f?d'\ " 99 ns Ap D idea 1vVWwWay "But I have. Isn‘t that one?" The sketch of the windmill, I mean?" "Yes," she said doubtfully. "You‘re quite right. It is insipid," he said. "You know, you‘re frightenec of colour. But it‘s one of the few things you are frightened of, I should say. And now that you know my name, I think that you might tell me yours." "Betty â€"Somers My father‘s the "Betty Somers. My Town Clerk." "And you‘re going to be a chemist?" he asked with a smile. "I‘m reading chemistryâ€"which isn‘t quite the same thing." _"No, I suppose it isn‘t. But isn‘t it an odd thing for a girl to be interested in?" He spent half an hour wandering round the exhibition, and just after he had gone, Heriot, on his way back from the school, looked in. He noticed the red label at once. "Hi, Betty," he called. ‘"What‘s all this? A joke?" ‘"No, Mr. Heriot," she smiled. ‘"The picture has been sold. Thirty guineas was the price, wasn‘t it?" "You‘re telling me!" said Tim Heriot. ‘"Here‘s the cheque, anyway," she said. ‘"The Society gets ten per cent, F believe." ‘"‘"‘Paul Brereton!" he exclalmed. ‘"Good Lord! He‘s a very great artist," the art master added solemnly. "And he‘s an absolute darling!" Betty Somers said. ‘"He has one of those kind, clever faces." "You can rely on chemicals â€" far more than you can on people. Mix two of them, and vyou can count on the reaction. You know where you are with them." "But would people be as amusing as they are if you could count on them?" "Perhaps not," she admitted. "You certainly cannot count of them," he said, and she noticed the sudden touch of seriousness in his tone. "Paul Brereton!" the art master reâ€" peated, softly. Brereton, however, was not, in the general sense of the word, a~ famous artist; the ordinary reader of the ordinary paper had probably never heard of him. But among painters themselves he was recognized as a master and the few of his pictures which had come under the hammer had achieved prices very nearly a record for a living artist. There were those who said that if it had not been for his money he would have been one of the best known of contemporary painters. CHAPTTR II THE MAKING OF BRERETON The placid life of the little Hertfordâ€" shire town was considerably rufied by the arrival of Paul Brereton, although in spite of the enthusiasm of the local painters, very little was known about him. Heriot‘s word was law as far as things artistic in Cheriton were conâ€" cerned, and since he had said that Paul Brereton was a great artist . . . such was henceforward his status. His father had been in oil, in the days when fortunes were far more easily made in that commodity than they are today. In 1914 Paul joined the Army as an obvious way out of the great business which had absorbed his father and threatened to absorb him. His father, by a curiously ironical touch, was one of the comparatively few peoâ€" ple killed during the airâ€"raids on Lonâ€" donâ€"â€"inâ€"that ,,....,.. but.. Paul: came through unscathed. At twentyâ€"eight, he was a Major and a DS.O., and, inâ€" cidentally, an exceedingly wealthy man. and a dGubious American were appearâ€" ing in a dancing act under the name ’of Les Cubans and, whatever their deâ€" ficiencies, there was no doubt that they knew their stuff and could dance. Early on, she made it quite clear to The studio inevitably became a rallyâ€" ing point for his friends and acquaintâ€" ances, not all of whom were particuâ€" larly desirable. His wealth, indeed, was almost a legend in the Quartier and attracted many of those who lived on art rather than forit. Innumerabl out of his life and generally were of a type which did not improve his opinion of the sex. Brereton, however, was already twentyâ€" eight, at which age an intelligent man has developed certain defences and is not quite so easily fooled as in the more immature vears. Art students., models, the inevitable actresses and the still more inevitable Russian aristocrats all graced his studio and many of them laid siege to him,. but unavailingly. Breretin‘s ag always one x theories en alleged loveliest model in Truman succeeded tss nevitably became a rallyâ€" his friends and acquaintâ€" of whom were particuâ€" e. His wealth, indeed, â€" women flitt in those tumul were of a type en flitted in and se tumultuous days f a type which did inion of the sex. as already twentyâ€" an intelligent man 10wever, normal who . AnC Gral 1e Quartier, Sad wWher d Duk 1spiCc1ious man of The Brereton that her dancing partner meant nothing whatever in her life and he discreetly disappeared whenever Brereâ€" »id." | ton apveared on the scene. They were not Cubansâ€"they were not even Americans. Sadie‘s passport was British, and she had been born and received the early, inessential part of her education in a London suburb. She was, cuite simply, beautiful. Everyâ€" thing about herâ€"her figure, face, hands, feet and eyesâ€"was beautiful, but, unhappily perhaps, physical beauâ€" ty is not, in of all the evidence to the contrérv. the most important part of a woman. Sadie was always a woman apart where Brereton was concerned. For everv manâ€"scomewhereâ€"there is the every manâ€"somewhereâ€"there woman apart. He vainted her several times, alâ€"| though she hated the boredom of proâ€" | tracted sitting, and it was a portrait of Sadie which definitely established him | as a painter of international reputaâ€" tion. There was usually a crowd ln{ front of it at the Salon. He had callâ€" ed it simuoly: "A portrait," but the face had a curiously haunting and disturbâ€" ing beauty. There were reddish flecks ‘ in the brown eves which were set raâ€" ther wide apart and gave the face an! uncertain quality. Innocence, some | said, and othersâ€"mockery. | "I should hate any man to know as! much absut me as Paul does about that . one." the Russian Princess said to her | friend of the moment as they con-| templated the portrait. "Yoeul know best, baby," was the replyi which, for some inscrutable reason, angered <the Princess. | In cold fact the Princess was quite: wrong. Of all the women Paul Brere-1 ton had known he knew least about Sadieâ€"yet it was she who coloured his life more than any of them. He was thinking about her, indeed, twenty yvears later as he strolled from the Exhibition in â€"~the Town Hall at Cheriton, through the little town and up the hill to the Common. Betty Somersâ€"the girl who liked things she could count onâ€"for some obscure reaâ€" son had brought her out of the dim background of his memories. So often, he had noticed, a girl or woman would do this. â€"which in itself is significantâ€"as he made his way through the soft greenâ€" ness of the lanes to the house where a woman of a very different type awaitâ€" ed him. Likby McKechnie had been with him for many years. Nothing in him surprised her. He had left her for months at a time in his flat in Rio de Janeiro, and once for a full year in a luxurious apartment he had taken overâ€" looking the Parec Monceau in Paris. She had accepted his sudden decision to return to England almost without comment. "Well . . . you know what you want, He was thinking of Sadie and not of the very attractive girl he had just met ‘"Well . . . you know what you want, Mr. Brereton," she had said. She was 62 and a spinster and alâ€" thcugh she would have indignantly deonied it, poured out on her distinâ€" guished master the full flood of her latent maternal instincts. She stood no nonsense from anyone â€" excepting him, and in her eyes he could do no wrong. The furniture had already arrived frocm the Paris apartment. The picâ€" tures were still unpacked in the big drawing rcom, but the small room leading from it was ready for him and it was in this room that his dinner was served by Libby herself that evenâ€" ing. "It‘s good to be home, Libby," he said. "Aye," she said, ignoring the mildly ironic touch in his words. ‘‘*We‘re going to like this place." "It‘s cost a great deal of money. I‘m thinking that vou‘ll no see it back again." ‘‘You‘re more interested in money than I am, Libby." "That‘s because you‘ve always had too much. That dealer has been on the ‘phone again." ‘"Who, McFarlane?" "That was the name. He wants to come down here as soon as he can see your picture." "Give him my compliments and tell him to goâ€"vou know where." "Aye. Have you ever what will happen to all t when you pass on?" ‘‘*‘Pass‘â€"on, I see what Of course I‘ve considered it that d but Be n Ahe ; Don 11 ho niffed. t.dado t sniffed not e wouldn CK C COPYRIGHT h 1€ said. ~â€"But Nothin k4 4. £P4 be getti be here aild irritably in the apple English thing your present ight ver gardener o take u THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Did vo tell you matters thev‘re A W "vou had no difficulty in them *" the door. LADY sSELWYXN INXVITES ... The apple pie, in its way, was as good as the chicken and the turbot had been excellent.: When the solitary meal was over he switched on the electric fire tor there was a touch of chill in the May over hne swi[cned ol| iC 10i there was a touch of chill in the May evening. "There‘ll be nothing else you‘re wantâ€" ing?" she asked when she had cleared the table. ‘Nothing," he said. "I hope you don‘t find the place lonely?" he said doubtfully. "It can‘t be lonelier than Paris and that outlandish American place," she said. ‘ry celebration, remarked Mo r." keep me away from pape up want to have anything to c he|don‘t want to handle it! : he‘ magazine a few days ago : consumption!" "In some ways that‘s true, Mr. Breâ€" reton,‘"‘ Miss McKechnie said as she turned to the door. But the bock Brereton was reading, although it was the work of one of the subtlest writers in Paris, failed to hold his attention that evening. Mocking brown eyes with red flecks in them peâ€"â€" sisted in coming between his and the printed page in front of him. He switched on the light in the big drawing room. Packingâ€"cases were pilâ€" ed here and there and the floor was uncarpeted. He found the big flat case he sought by the window and found his way down to the kitchen where Miss McKechnie provided him with a screwâ€" driver. The case had been screwed down with elaborate care but at length he got the side off, and removed quanâ€" tities of soft packing to reveal a picâ€" ture. He moved it round so that the light fell obliquely on it and for minutes he and the woman who watched him from the canvas contemplated each other. The reverie was interrupted by Libby McKechnie opening the dosor. Sne stood in silence looking at the packing strewn about the floor. BUSINE 31 Wilson Avenue CLEAN FUEL CLEAN SERVICE OFFICE: 141 Main Ave., Timmins PHMONE 583 28 First Avenue Wrecker and Garage NEW AND USED PARTS FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS 18 Mattagami Boulevard Phone 1351â€" W Ask for coupons redeemable on Bread and Pastry. Try our Famous Doâ€"Nuts and French Pastry National Bakery Timmins and District business establishments enjoy a good patronage from the residents of this community because through the years they have earned the confidence of the public and are coâ€"operating to retain it. 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