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-vâ€"â€"-- PA DUIAL L 4 BLQFZIR A MAII DAINTBY: An Englishman, forced by business difficulities Mhhllflbtom umnz TELLFORTH: A young but sullen and secretive widower, who loves Myrie but who is already engaged to be married. ~|Langdon Langdon "YÂ¥vonne, congratulate us! _ Myrle and Tâ€"are engaged." __"I hope you Myrie, dazedly. _He sought out the Barbours, found Â¥YÂ¥vonne just about to start dancing with her partner. Yvonne raised her eyebrows, went throgh all the motions of being treâ€" mendously surprised and ended by s'uying "I expected it, of course." "Did you?" said Rex. "Yes, but not so soon.‘ YÂ¥vonne pushed her way through the crowd to tell Diane; in a moment Rex and Myrle were the centre of a conâ€" gratulatoryâ€" group. It dispersed at last, and they were left alone to dance. "Oh, T‘ll stick on the wagon more or less you know. To please you, I mean." ‘The moment was confused and unâ€" real. They sat there, he holding her hand and talking; and, after a moment he led her on to the dance floor, saying that they must announce it, they must tell everybody. Myrle felt like someone who has plunged into cold water, and got used to the situation gradually. Then it was not to badâ€"in fact, a hectic gaiety seized her. Friends, comfort, travel, everything would be possible! _â€"She smiled. It was a moment of panic. Dreams, fancies of ideal love rose out of the past to mock her. But such things belonger to another age! <. . . She could help Rex, he could help her. Her smile was all the more brilllant for the effort it cost her. . "What fun!â€" Yes, T‘d love to marry youâ€"though, of course, I‘m simply penniless, you know, Rex." . got all we want. Think what we could do! Where‘ll we go? IT‘ll stop drinking from this moment!" ‘_"I hope you will drink less," said YELY TO LOOK AT" . Myrle hesitated, though her mind was already made up. "If you really want me, Rex." "I do! You‘re lovely, I think you‘re wonderful. Look, I‘m perfectly sober, I mean it from the bottom of my It was not until the supper interval that they saw Rosemary and Tellforth Rosemary approached at onte with a gmile which made it obvious that she "I‘m so glad. [ do hope you‘ll be very happy." "Thank you, Rosemary." Myrle was touched and disarmed by the kindliness which shone in the girl‘s face. Tellforth said to Rex: "Congratulations, Rex." To Myrle he merely threw a formal sort of smile. ( As they went in to supper Myrle saw Swiss Watchmaker Graduate of the Famous Horologhal Institute of Switzerland Third Avenue _ > Empire Block j ‘Cor. Spruce St. and Third Ave. PHONE 324 TIMMINS Clean Rooms The King Edward â€"Hotel Day or Week Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Bank of Commerce Bullding Barristers, Solicitors, Ete. MASSEY BLOCK S. A. Caldbick F. BAUMAN Very Reasonable Rates Quiet Atmosphere and South Porcupine BY â€"14â€"26 ‘curious glances from the people seated alt the tables as they passed . . . Here and there someone called out a chaflâ€" ing word to Rex. _ Held up for a moment by the crowd, Myrie nheard a man‘s voice uymg beâ€" hind her: It required the joint efforts of Myrle with Â¥vyonne and Diane and their partâ€" ners, to persuade him to go home quietly. He turned up at the Barbours toâ€" wards noon the next day, apologizing, but pointing out that the wonder of getting engaged to Myrle had been too much for him. "I really mean to go on the waggon," said Rex soberly. "I had a brandy this mnorning on the way here because I had to have a pickâ€"meâ€"up. , But / I really am going to knock it off, darling." A DUBIOUS PROMISE Myrle forgave him, looking grave. "I haven‘t rung my people to tell them yet." So that was what they all thought! That was what everyone would say. No one would think that she was martyâ€" ing Rex for anything but his money. Hearing it like that, from the tongues oi others, drove it home in its ugliest aspect. Tellforth was looking at her too. But why his smile so grim? It was not a reassuring facter in the whole affair that by the time the evenâ€" ing was over Rex was thoroughly drunk. She found herself sitting opposite to Tellforth and Rosemary . . . Rosemary whose every look betrayed a tender sensitivity; but who was being married after Christmas for her excellent abiâ€" lity in cooking joints and keeping household accounts! '- Cynicism cameto Myrle‘s aid. "Darling," she said loudly, to Rex. "Do let us have some champagne!" She laughed, conscious of many adâ€" miring male eyes turned upon her round the table. "Well, you‘d better do it, because I called in at the newspaper office on the way here, and gave them an . anâ€" rouncement to put in toâ€"morrow‘s pa- per," Rex told her. "I didn‘t want to ring mother until we‘d discussed when we think We’re likely to get married." Shaken with cold, she allowed Rex to lead her to a table. "Yes, she‘s from Home! ‘Lovely to luok at, delightful to knowâ€"!‘ That‘s what you get when you‘ve got fifty thousand coming to you! D‘you think she‘d have looked at Rex, it â€"â€"?" Myrle. slender and fresh in her blue, linen morning frock, turned from him uneasily. Looking round Myrle could not disâ€" tinguish who it was. She and Rex moved on, Rex oblivious and elated. "‘Tell her we‘re getting married next week," said Rex, recklessly. I % "I‘ve been thinking, Rex. I just can‘t marry you immediately." "But what is there to wait for?" i "So many things. Mainly that I can‘t: let my parents down. I must stay with‘ them until after shearing is over. Things will be easier after the harvestâ€" | ing. By the winter father will be able] | | | to get help for mot\her, but they‘ll be lost without me now." "Ssh!" A girl‘s voice hushed the speaker. "Oh, gosh!" said Rex disappointedly. "Can‘t I fix that up? What‘s a bit of help, anyhow? I mean we could get your mother a girl." "They‘d never accept that, Rex." "But they should if it‘s going to mean that you and I can get married," pro- tested Rex. Myrle shook her head. . "It wouldn‘t be the same. Besides there‘s something else." \â€"O. E. Kristensen P.O. Box 1591 Registered Architect â€" Ontario Land Surveyor Building Plans Estimate: 23 Fourth Ave. Pho! P. H. LAPORT 10 Balsam St. North, Timmins, Ont. Income Tax Returns Filed Phones 270â€"2%28â€"286 P.O. Bes 147 CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 60 ThIRD AVENUE Phone 640 Consultation is Free Bank of Commerce Building PHONE 6097 CHIROPRACTOR RADIONICS ANALYSIS RAY â€" _ SHORTWAVE Timmins, Ont. Phone 362 ~Captain Daintry looked a little less happy. â€"He looked at Myrle rather sadly out of the grey eyes which were a mild, worried edition of her own. He was thinking: "If I could: have looked afterâ€"her betterâ€" she would never have ‘had to doâ€"thig." â€" But he said nothing. What was there to say? ~He had nothâ€" ing: to offer instead. . Bhe was honest in her reasons for postponing: their marriage. But now it was <postponed she felt happier about it, much more certain that she had done the right thing. She would have threeâ€"monthsâ€"in which to get used. to the idea; three months in which she was determined to take every opporâ€" tunity of growing fond of Réx. Whileshe remained in Christchurch, he took, her to see his aunt, an elderly lady, the widow of a baronet who lived in a large houseâ€"and was mainly inâ€" terested in her Pekinese dogs. She was affable, and obviously indifferent. Both Rex‘s parents were dead. Myrle felt she could â€"not have got engaged to a man‘in an easier situation. Heâ€"drove her home to "Petersdown." Mrs.: Daintry was all enthusiasm : and relief that Myrie‘s future was settled. To her the amount of money Rex posâ€" sessed would have covered many more defects than she could see in him. "Three months!" said Rex disgustâ€" “Tmluuamnean'tmu méflnflm unymrywl imposdible af " Myrile told him. -muum'zwpymmc Rex. £11 feelâ€"â€"well, T‘ll feel 1 don‘t deserve to marry you." Rex groaned. "This is awfulâ€"it‘s awfulâ€"absoluteâ€" ly awful!" "Well, you shouldn‘t have got into such bad habits, and then this wouldn‘t have happened. Besided," added Myrie, "there is the point about my people. I can‘t let them down." 4 Rex pleaded and coazed, but it was useléss. In the end he groaned. "Oh, well, L suppose I ahall just have to piit up with it. I suppose if you were willing to leave your botheration of a mothér in the lurch I wouldn‘t care you as I do." Myriec laughed, and realizedâ€"with a toucth of shame because it was for the first timeâ€"that there was something quite : charming in Rex. Who knew, perhaps in time she might become very fond of him? *‘Very nice indeed, Myrle," commentâ€" ed ~Mrs. Daintry. "You‘ll be wonderâ€" fully comfortable, which is the main A few minutes before Rex went back to town, Myrie‘s native honesty overâ€" came her.= Rex was sitting at the wheel of the car, and they were saying goodâ€" bye. fully,> her. head drooping little. "I don‘t know that I am really and truly in love with you." Rex looked at her, his lean Tace sudâ€" denly. pinchedâ€"and unhappy. . f ".T]'y,h notâ€"I think I‘m lucky to get you xanyway t‘ He\said it with solemnity that showâ€" ed he meant it. Pe tkissed her before he drove away. and Myrle went back into the house. _\"Well, then, I think that‘s all that matters," Rex, said. ° s o _ t C000 0 CA 3 + "It‘s partly because my like is so aifficult, and because of all you can do:to make it better that I, have, said T11 marry ‘you,", Myrle conféssed.; ; "I feel‘ I ought to: tell you that." °_ ‘;.‘! "I kneW. ‘I sort of had an idea," said Rex dsombrely, but he added more hopeâ€" fully: "I don‘t mind, so long as you think I could make you happy. Do you think you could come to care for me just bit?" \ "I could, I‘m sure." . With all her Myrle wanted it to be so. # “You re: awfully good!" she said, tou\ched almost to tears. and Myrle went DACK IntOo UNC I110uSC Herdifficult thoughts were broken into by her mother, who began to tell her . about a "horrible earthquake" they had had about an hour earlier. "An earthquake?" said Myrle. "Definitey, my dear! I felt frightâ€" fuuly queer, suddenly, as though I were ‘seasick and then I saw the table move in front of me, and the whole house rattled!" C . "They say they often have them up here," said Captain Daintry, as he had told his wife several times qlreqdy. _"We‘re onâ€"ahâ€"on a fault limestone hills. 1 in 46.A th ds hssA "TI didnt.feel anything, but we must have been in the car at the time," said Myrle. _ u> L mtE h.ccch, tttivedent u.6 in hi But Myrle was silent, thinking of Rex. She was half sad, yet satisfied The future was at least assured. ' CHAPTER VII TELLFORTHW‘S INTENTIONS Myrle had seen the violets and the fruit trees bloom,‘ the willows grow green in the harsh river bed the, lambs skipping in ‘the paddocks under the blue skies of spring. 8 Now it was high summer. The cliffs and river banks blazed with the yellow of gorse and broom, and the homestead gardens were brilliant with colour. . Kane‘s rose garden was at the height of its glory when Myrle went over to "Greystoke" one Sunday in the November to the <picnic which was "afterwards to be so memorable. Alind “I ve never felt a more unpleasant sensation," said Mrs. Daintry. . a Rex was not there, which left Myrle on her own. She admired Mrs. Kane‘s roses, heard John Kane on the subject of wool prices, and swam in the pool when they all went down to the river. After luncheon some went to play tennis, others went riding; and Myrle was one of those who lay down on the river bank to laze. § Tellforth arrived belatedly, and was given lunch out of the remains in the ample picnic baskets by Mrs. Kane. He ‘3Yofi know_, Rex," Myrle said, painâ€" to Myrle his white tennis , in the â€"â€""TH go and find it" said Myrle. "Then 1 can tell him, if he wants to ‘come down." ; It wgs an excuse to be doing someâ€" thing and she rose. *~â€""I ‘know the place," said Tellforth unexpectedly. "Shall T show you?" His tone was SsO cp_nspicuously ary ‘that Myrile looked:at: himâ€"questionably. ‘What did he mean to implyâ€"that she was not so lucky as Réx? She met his â€"eyeâ€"and sand impulsively: "Rex is very good." "Of course!" said. Tellforth. ~â€" Rageâ€"half incomprehensible â€" flashâ€" ed through Myrle, and she stopped in ‘her tracks. "I wish my father had time for it, he ‘loves it so. He brought his rods from home with him." "Well, if he wants he should They passed through, and Tellforth closed the gate ‘still unaware of the three riders, Rosemary, Evelyn and anâ€" other girl, who were drawing near and vould soon be wanting to pass through 4t. 3 "There‘s a pool higher up round the He was on his feet before she could object, and they walked away together Myrle remarked: , ‘"I have to admit that this is a very lovely country after all." ‘"Is it?" Tellforth smiled, as they stepped down on to the shingle. "I‘m glad you think so. ‘Of course, I know nothing about it." bend where John has caught dozens." "Vm;t do you mean, you know noâ€" thing about it? â€" You said once that you were attached to itâ€"â€"" "Ah, yes, but one gets attached to any place in time. Whatever has hapâ€" pened to you in it, good or bad, ties you to it by sheer association." . They walked a short way along the shingle, and then climbed through a gully in the cliff to the paddocks above. Myrle was thoughtful. "Perhaps what you say is the reaâ€" son why I sometimes look at this wonâ€" derful sunshineâ€"and then I‘m suddenly sick for the smell of a November fog in London." Tellforth smiled, understandingly: "Probaby it is." * They were so intent on each other that they did not see the three persons on horseback coming down the padâ€" dock some hundreds of yards behind them. They came to a gate in the wire fence, and Tellforth opened it. "However, I suppose you‘ll go to Engâ€" land sometime when you‘re married won‘t you?" he said. ~>â€"There was a subtle change in the look on his face, in the tone of his voice. The entry of something hard and ironical. "I hope so," said Myrle, of a sudden inwaxdly on guard. "$ “Rex " said Tellforth, as they tumed to go on. "is a very lucky ma.n (To be Continued) The characters in this story are enâ€" tirely imaginary. No reference is inâ€" tended to any living person or to any public or private company. (Copyright: Publishing Arrangement with N.PL.) Death of Temiskaming â€"Pioneer at New Liskeard New Liskeard district recently lost a valuable pioneer woman of the North in the death of Mrs. Richard Harold, Russell, who had lived in the North for nearly 38 years. For the past twenty years Mrs. Russell had been an esteemed resident of New Liskeard. One son lives at Timmins, as does one surâ€". viving daughter, while another daughâ€" ter is resident at Wawaitin Falls. The fcllowing reference to the death is from The New Liskeard Speaker last week: "In poor health for a monith before passing, Mrs. Annie Wykes Russell, wife of Ritchard Harold Russell, and resident of this district for nearly 38 . years, died at her home on Armstrong Street here last Friday morning in her ‘6ist year.â€" The funeral was held on sundgay afternoon from the E. C. Perâ€" rin Co. chapel, with services conducted by Mr. Thomas Edwards. Burial was made in the New Liskeard cemetery. "The late Mrs. Russell was born in Birmingham, England, on January 20, 1883, â€"and she was a‘daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry, Wykes of that city. Leaving England in 1905, she was marâ€" ied to Mr. Russell on her arrival in Montreal, then coming on to Temisâ€" kaming.| The family lived for a numâ€" ber of years in Harris and Casey townâ€" ships, moving into town more than twenty years ago, and they had conâ€" tinued to make their home here since that time. "Mrs. Russell is survived by her husâ€" ‘band., three sons and two daughters. ‘The sons are, Thomas of Timmins James of Sudbury and David of New Liskeard, but at present in the Royal Canadian Navy and stationed with H. M. C. S. York at Toronto. The daughâ€" are Mrs. Stanley Davies (Beatrice) by Mr. Thomas 1 made in the New "The late Myrs. Birmingham, Eng 1883, and she wWa and Mrs. Harryy in Timmins, and Mrs. Sam Glassford (Edna) of Wawaitin Falls and there are six grandchildren. Two daughters, Mrs. William Parkinson (Gertrude) and Emmie predeceased their mother." Sudbury Star:â€"So live that people will say you were worth your weight in Leaseâ€"Lend Plan is Now Working in Twoâ€"Way Direction United States Admits that Britain Providing Subâ€" stantial Amount of Goods, Canada has been paying its way and not taking advantage of the leaseâ€"lend plan. Only the other day there was a repetition of thiy thought, with the contrasting suggestion that New Zeaâ€" land had been taking advantage of the leaseâ€"lend plan to secure needed goods. If all these thoughts were true and the whole story, there would be no need for any excitement in the matter on the part of either the Unitâ€" ed States or those benefitting by the arrangement. This war is one in which the fate of free peoples is at stake and anything that one can do for another, it is really doing for itself. Any goods supplied, service given or assistance extended reflects advaniaâ€" age on all concerned. If each does all possible that is the sipitrit that wI® win. The United States has adopted that policy, and it only a matter of fairness to say that Great Britain has showed a similar spirit. Itywill be reâ€" called that when France fell into difâ€" ficulties, Britain offered the greatest ‘"‘leaseâ€"lend‘" proposal ever in the hisâ€" tory of the world. In a word, Premier Churchill said to France:â€""Stay with Britain in this fight, and everything that Britain has she will share with you to the last farthing â€" even to citizenship and existance." In a recent issue The Northern Minâ€" er called attention to the fact that at the present time there is a direct recognition of the twoâ€"way working of the Leasi2â€"lend plan now being publicizâ€" ed in the United States. For a long time, The Miner notes, the impression prevailed in the United States that the leaseâ€"lend service was a oneâ€"way afâ€" fair. Tt took an official report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to banish the illusion. The report was prepared by Major George Spiegelberg, Recorder of the General Purchasing Board of the armed forces of the Unitâ€" ed States, hence its validity is not shadowed ‘by the suspicion of propaâ€" ganda. In a review of this report an American. publication which has not been notably favorable to British war accomplishments in the past, states that three points in partiâ€" cular are striking in this report. First, the volume and variety of the "reverse Lendâ€"Lease provided at the expense of the British Treasury. Secondly, the promptness and fullness with which the requests of the American army in the European theatre have been â€" met. Thirdly, the failure or inability to attach a definite money value to the aid given. Up to January 1st, 1943, major types of supplies and equipment â€" furnished to American forces by the British were the equivalent of 1,nm 1786 . tons ; of: shipping spate. In sddition the British have provided exclusively for American forces about 1,595,375 tons of new conâ€" struction, at a ¢ost estimated to . exâ€" ceed half a billion dollars. Value Not Computed The value of ‘the services provided at Bri‘lish expense cannot be accurately estimated. They include everything from transportation on British railways to electricity and gas for American camps and the use of British telephone, telegraph and postal ‘services. The British pay all damage to government and private property as the result of +raining and manoeuvers by American forces. They pay all the expenses of American Red Cross hotels, clubs and operational buildings except the salarâ€" ies of the staff. They pay for the printing of the daily and weekly newsâ€" paper of the U.S. Army in the European theatre and for all offlcial printing except that done on the American Army‘s own printing plant. They pay for the sea transport of all U.S. Army personnel and freight, for all buildings and depots requisitioned for American use, for all British civilian labor directâ€" ly or indirectly employed by the Ameriâ€" can armed services and for all British supplies which are requested by the American army for resale to American troops through its commissaries. The African Expedition When the Allied expedition set sail for . North Africa the supplies for use by the American forces provided by Britain included 3,800 tons of ammuniâ€" ;tion as well as artillery for one Ameriâ€" can division, some Spitfires, 80,000 +ong ;of coal, 2,000 tons of rations, medical supplies for 100,000 men for 30 days and 30,000 tons of engineer equipment, beâ€" sides numerous articles for the Ameriâ€" can units assigned to the British First Shortly before the African expedition set off it was discovered that Ameriâ€" can planes needed a different type of radio equipment. The R.A.F, promptâ€" ly turned over to the US. {forces every single piece of radio equipment of the type desired that was then available in the United Kingdom. It is estimatâ€" ed that twoâ€"thirds of all civil and miliâ€" tary labor available for military works in the UK. are employed on work for the American Army. The British reâ€" gularly deliver highâ€"explosive bombs, on 12 hours‘ notice, to any point deâ€" signated by the US. Army Air Forces. ‘They even supply American barracks with several degrees more heat than they do their own. At first the American forces tried to put a dollar value on the aid received. But by midâ€"summer the Engineer Corps reported that at least hallf a division would be required to keep acâ€" curate records and the attemp, was Services and Labour A rather remarkable contribution was made recently to the Aid to Russia fund by the little community of Moose River Crossing,. a settiement hardly big enâ€" mhtobeunedavmue Moose Riâ€" brief description; in national red, in the centre of a white background there was a huge "V" with the symbol ... â€" 0 either side of the lower point; above the V in blue let‘ers arranged in a semiâ€"circle were the words "Moose Riâ€" ver Crossing", whle at the very foot, the date 1943â€"also in blue. The quiltâ€" ing pattern was a Maple Leaf. "Material for the quilt was purchased from surplus Christmas funds and doâ€" na‘ed ‘by the local school board. The handiwork was done by the teacher, Miss A. Johnson, and her Grade 9 puâ€" pils, Ruth and Beatrice Foster. The junior pupils did their part of selling tickets. "As an incentive the school board ofâ€" fered three prizes, namely: "Znd prize, 4 War Savings Stamps â€" Berth Kaya, Gr. 6, for selling 50 tickets â€" "3ord prize, 4 War Savingsy Stamps â€" Helen Johnson, for selling winning tiâ€" ckets. "1st ‘prize,'a War Savin'gs StampSs â€" Helen Johnson, Gr. 3, for selling 63 ticke*?s. There was a) total of 201 tickets sold at 25¢ each bringing a total Of $50.25. The prize winning ticket was No. 157, held ‘by Noel Simard, mechanic, Moose River Crossing. abandoned. The British know what most of the items cost but even they do not try to keep full accounts. When supplies are delivered to airfields or other stations shared by British and American forces no effort is made to put a value on the p01 tions used by Americans. "Credit goes to Mr. E. G. Jameson and 20 PINE STREET NORTH 78 BRUCE AVENUE k McInnis Block Phone 30 Fire Threatens, Let Us Help You Check Your Fire Insurance. â€"| Simmsâ€"Hooker Pickering Timmins Ten Births Regiltemd in Timmins Lut qeek-end mâ€"onmnxam.xm to Mr. and Mrs. William G. MacElwee, 14 Coâ€" lumbus avenue at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€" a daughter (Sandra Elizabeth) a daughter (Ann Marle Jullette). _ Bornâ€"on ‘10thy ‘1943, to Mt. and Mrs. Lorenzo Servant, 43 Ronald streetâ€"a daughter (Leona Yvette). Bornâ€"on March 24th,1043, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moncion, 121 Comâ€" mercial avenueâ€"a son (Joseph). â€" Bornâ€"on Feb. 27th, 1 Mrs. Joseph Wolfe Lieb Mrs. Joseph Wolfe Liebemam 258 Ceâ€" dar Street N., at St. ‘hospltal-- a son (Richard Sheldoo Bornâ€"on March ,13th, 13 to Mr and Mrs. Nicholas P1 o, 16 Lang avenueâ€"a son (Richard.Ptrick).â€" Bomâ€"on March 12th, l% to : Mr. and Mrs. William A GulAis, 42 Mountâ€" joy St., at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a daughter «(Joyce Carole). * Bornâ€"on Feb. 26th, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Thomas,‘112 Birch south,â€" a daughter (Dorothy Anne Fraser Lm'- raince). Bornâ€"on Feb. 16th, 1943. to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ansara, 59° Elm south at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a daugnter (Catâ€" herine Mae). Bornâ€"on March 15th, 1943 to M!‘ and. Mrs. Charles Howard Harvey, 116 Maple south, at St. Marys hospitabâ€"-a. son (Howard Clayton). ‘Toronto Telegram:â€" Whete there% smoke, there‘s taxes. South Porcupine Ont.