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"I have no. hesitation in recomâ€" mending you, Long term contract, if you‘ wish." Admiral Sandley thrust his hands into his trouser pockets, stradâ€" dled his feet and seemed to think the young man would jump at the chance. CHAPTER TX THE BRIDE "Do I understand,". Johnâ€" Morris a..ked the Admiral, "that this imporâ€" tant position is offered to me without any cinvestiagtion into my qualificaâ€" tions?" . "Thank you very much, sir," he reâ€" plied. "It is most kind of you. But I am perfectly satisfie®@ here. Besides, I could hardly leave Sir Charles after all he has done for ime." "Admire your loyalty, Morris. Adâ€" mide it intensely. Only wish some of my people felt the same . way,. You leave everything to me and T‘ll guaranâ€" tee to put it square with Sturton." His sister DlA:lA StANDLEY, dark and a lover of openâ€"air activities, is the opposite in ype to PHILLIPA, youngest of the Sandley family, She interests Edward, but John insists that he is not concerned in moving in such society. "Unfortunately, sir my answer must be a negative." "But Morris, you don‘t know what you‘re turning down. This 19 a golden opportunity." ) 00006 %0% 0900 % 9000000 0000000096 06000 % 00600 *# 0+ "Nothing would induce me to leave Sir Charles while he has need of me and I have his confidence." PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Admiral‘s plan of action had gone wrong: he was driven to frontal attack. "My wife," he remarked, "has views about Diana‘s future. Phillipa is making a very suitable match and . . .‘ He looked around as though in need of moral support. Finding none he blustered. "We are all agreed," he went on firmly, "that Diana must do equally well." \Langdon Langdon "What‘s the matter, ~little: boy?" "Ma‘s gone and drowned all the kittens." "Dear me, that‘s too bad." "Yeah, she promised me I could do it."~â€"Exchange. MacBrien Bailey BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS 2M Third Avenue JAMES R. MacBRIEN FRANK H. BAILEY, LLB. Barristerâ€"atâ€"Law 13 THIRD AVE. TVM of Dean Kester, K.C. Bank of Commerce Building FORTUNE‘S APPRENTICE Barristers, Solicitors, Etce. S. A. Caldbick Barrister, Solicitor, Etec. and south Porcupine MASSEY BLOCK TIMMINS, ONT. ROFESSIONAL CARDS DISAPPOINTED Timmins, Ont. TIMMINS John was nonâ€"committal. "Yes," he simply, ‘Candley spoke gruffly. "I see, Tact bling No necessity to mince words, eh? My daughter has taken a fancy to you and it will not do. No, sir, it positively will not do." John. rose and faced him across the open desk, on which the Admiral‘s knuckles rapped. "This is the second time my asâ€" sociation with your daughter has been called into question," he exclaimed. ‘"Once your son, on your behalf, exâ€" acted a certain promise from me. Now you offer me a substantial bribte to go away." ~‘*Nothing of the kind." Â¥ ‘"That is how I regard the suggest on sir. What else can this well paid post in London signify? Be honest. No mincing words, in your own phrase." Sandley spoek gruffly. "I see. Tact is wasted on you. So be it. We have other plans. for Diana than that she should become involved with an emâ€" ployee of her sister‘s fatherâ€"inâ€"law. Is that perfectly clear?" ‘"Perfectly clear. Evidently you have not had Diana‘s own evidence of the extent of our friendship, for that is as far as it has proceeded up to now. Yet, I imagine your interference is having the opposite effect from what you expected."‘ ‘"What do you mean by that?" "You may know fairly soon sir. Good morning to you. I am a busy man." And John pulled out his chair and resumed his place at his desk. Admiral Sandley turned on his heel, lost for a suitable response, The best that he could think ‘of was, "You‘ve not heard the last of this." John â€" was left halfâ€"angry, halfâ€" amused, at the crude way the Admiral had gone about the business, the blaâ€" tant way in which he had tried to buy him off with a job. When next he saw Diana alone John brought up the subject of her father‘s visit, and soon knew by the flush that rose to her cheeks that it had not been kept secret from her. "I know," she admitted. "What a thing it is to have parents with an outlook more suited to the last century !" ‘"‘Being brought face to face with facts I have reached an important deâ€" cision on my own account." "What is it, John?" "I love you, Diana.‘" "Is that what you have been decidâ€" ing?" "No. I have loved you for a very long time." He spoke very earnestly. "I knew that, too,"‘ she replied quietly. * "Well?" ‘"You might as well be told that I AmMm | Arch.Gillies,B.A.Scâ€",0.L.S. ESwiss Watchmaker Graduate of the Famous HorologKal Institute of Switzerland Phone 1365 Third Avenue P.0,. Box 1591 Registered Architect Ontario Land Surveyor Building Plans Estimates, Ete. 23 Fourth Ave. Phone 362 46 Fourth Ave. Accounting P. H. LAPORTE, G. C. A. Phones 285â€"â€"286 BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 3, Marshallâ€"Ecclestone Bldg., Timwmins, Ont. Phones: Offices 2725 Res. 1438 n equally in love with you." There was silence for a moment CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 60 THIRD AVENUE Phone 640 Systems Installed Income Tax Returns Filed Timmins, Ont. Empire Block Timmins, Ont. COPYRIGHT Auditing neither spoke nor moved. Then, "What are we going to do about it?" he asked. "What can we do?" she returned. ‘"My â€" parents will never consent. Legally, they can stop me until I am twentyâ€"one. At least a year before we could be marsried, even against their wiches." "That is not so long. I can wait, and patiently, Diana, if only we have an understanding." Her dark curles bobbed as she shook her head. "Why not, darling?" That first term of endearment she had heard him use, affected her, in spite of the defensive barrier she was trying to maintain. The colour rushed to her face, ebbed and Jeft it white. "Everything is so difficult," she argued. "It would Mbreak their hearts. I have been brought up to do as I am told. To turn on them (is a big step to take." ‘"Rebellion may be the only way." "I am not brave enough." "Diana!" 6 "Yes, John?" "We cannot drift indefinitely. We know our own minds. Parents have no right to stand in the way of their children‘s happiness." "They do not intend to be unkind. In their eyes I should be asking for endless . trouble in marrying out. of what they call the ‘right set.‘" As an essay in courtship the episode was entirely unsatisfactory. Yet John had spoken his mind and received an as:surance that Diana was of a like way of thinking. Only the rediculous acciâ€" dent of theirn respective positions kept them apart. "Then we are not much better off than when we started." "Something may turn up if we are patient." They met again at the flower and vegetable show, the chief local event of the ssyimmer season. It was discussed for months in advance, and with eager anticipation. The show was a survival of the simipler pleasures the are uniâ€" versally satisfying. John would have attended as a duty, though he was not himself exhibiting anything. The certainty of seeing Diana was an added inducement. The great marquee was stifling. Vegetables, fruit, and blossoms mingâ€" led their scents to make that pungent cdour peculiar to such places. Farmers in knee breeches and gaiters chatted with market gardeners, their hands still streaked with the rich soil from which they wrested a livelihood, Villagâ€" ers in their best suits wandered round making shrewdly critical, comments on the prizeâ€"winners. John, in the company of Sir Charles, found himself swept into the Sandley group. Publicly, neither Mrs. Sandley nod the Admiral were liable to act in such a way that tongets would be set wagging. Only Conrad was distant in his manner. "Are you not showing?" Mrs. Sandâ€" ley asked sweetly. John said he was not, though he was taking part in the riding. _"We musit not miss that, Mr. Morris." "My mother has a first prize for strawberry jam and a second in the fruit cake class," he said deliberately Mrs. Sandley did not winch. "I alâ€" ways wished I could make fruit cake" was her observation, though not made with any notable enthusiasm. The fact that they were all specâ€" tators of the jumping event put John off his form. Not that he claimed to be any better as a rider than Will Johnson, who carried off first prize, but he was competent and strove hard to give a good account of himself, Inâ€" stead, he muffed the first round, knocking off the topâ€"bar and pulling his mount at the waterâ€"jump. "WE HAD A TERRIBLE ROW" When the Sandleys commiserated with him afterwards, he felt they were utterly insincere. He was convinced that they rejoiced becauss he had not cut an figure in the eyes of Diana. ‘"Never mind,"" Mrs. Sandley said. "Better luck next time. You really ought to exhibit sweet peas. Such a charming flower. I adore flower shows." Conrad muttered, "I hate them. Can‘t stand the smell for one thing, and too many rustics about for my liking." John rose to the defence of the country men. They were a grand lot, he insisited. Look at their names on the war memorials, The country was rightly proud. And it seemed as though there would be another call on them to prove their worth before long. "There will not be another war," the Admiral exclaimed dogmatically. "That fellow Hitler is a windbag. Everlastâ€" ingly making speeches and posturing. That sort don‘t make wars." "‘The way he has been upsetting Europe is more than hat air," John replied. "Huh!" the Admiral retorted gruffly. "I don‘t pretend to know a deal about international affairs, but I shouldn‘t mind going back to sea if there was a spot of bother." The whole party had tea togetherâ€"â€" new bread and farmhouse butter, home made cakes, fresh raspberries and cream,; Mrs. Morris happened to be passing, and the Admiral called on her to join in. Antiquated in his opinions, he might be, clumsy in busiiness he cerâ€" tainly was; but he was never a boor, as his son was at times. The Admiral‘s treatment of John‘s mother was courâ€" teous in the extreme, as was that of every other member of the party. John was glad to be near Diana, even if he was not permitted to isolate her from the rest. Conrad saw to that sometimes astentatiously. Then came Joan Barton with her fatherâ€"for a clergyman, a somewhat burly person, who kept some traces of the military uprightness he had acquired in the Great War. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCTE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO "Country life suits me," he boasted. "I have put on a stone in about a year, lost all my nerve troubles, and learned how to handle animals as well as humans. A wonderful life. Next year I hopbe to win a prize for roses. A goat ate my best productions this season." â€" Joan, quick witted, soon saw the atâ€" tempts being made to leave John Morris outside the circle of converâ€" sation. Puckishly she intervened, drawâ€" ing the Admiral and his wife into a discussion on parochial matters that, _as she emphasized, requh ed immediate attention. "Not on my day off,"*" pleaded her father, almost spoiling her stheming. ‘"You know very well, Daddy, how urgent it is that . . ." "All right, all right!" It is strange that while there is, rightly, no peace 10r the wicked, a parson, who should get peace, is similarly afflicted." "Tell me all about the flowers," Joan said, edging Conrad from the group. "I wish I understand more about them What are those very colourful ones?" "Zinnias," he said grudgingly. ‘"And those?" ‘‘Calandulas. Orange King, is the specimen, I believe." "They look likeâ€" marigolds to me." ‘That is the popular name," he said, laughing. Before Conrad Sandley could defend himself adequately against this inâ€" nilnsell Adequately against this inâ€" vidious form <of attack he was being led away on a tour of the exhibits with Joan Barton plying him continuousliy with questions which he was forced to answer. "Come â€"and »~see â€" the. agricultural machinery," John urged detaching Diana from the family group. "I am more at home among binders and reapers and dise harrows. Have you seen the latest American importation? It is a patent that almost does away with manual labour on the land. Ploughing and sowing and reaping and mowing won‘t be done by the farmer‘s boy when they develop these combinaâ€" ticon utility gadgets." "Do you really want to tell me about farm apparatus?" "Not particularly.‘ He grinned. "I expect it would bore you." "It wouldn‘t," she said hastily. "Well, we will goggle at such things another time. This is the first occasion we have been together for three days. Consdering that we are as good as engaged . . ." "I have a lot to tell you, John. We have had a terrible row at home. Mcther is the worst of the lot, I think. I am threatened with dreadful conseâ€" quences if I don‘t dismiss you comâ€" pletely. I‘m not to see you or to think of you. They nearly went into hysterics when I reminded them I could apply to the courts for an order permitting me to marry as a minor.". "We couldn‘t really do that objected. "I know, John. But I had to say it. They goaded me into it, We cannot parade our troubles in public. It is §3 stupid." ‘"You won‘t even promise to marry me when you are of" age," John observed. "The. more they nag me the more likely I am to please myself. And you know what pleasing mysel{ â€" would mean. Hullo, here comes Conrad,. We are not going to have any privacy if he can help it." ' Joan was chattering brightly trying hard to lead her*‘ un escort. * "I never knew there were so many sorts of flowers," she said to John. "Mr. Sandley is a mine of inforâ€" mation." Conrad was obviously displeased, and soon disclosed the reason. "I‘ve been looking" around for you," he grumbled to Diana. "Mother is sure to be getâ€" ting worried. She wished me to keep an eye on you." "I would rather yoyu, didn‘t," she said He ignored her ob*ection. "Shall we itly, still unwilling John Ideal shine scenting duifer | ~She Dut S Morri "He is," she muttered, "exactly the kind I was warned about. The sort of country person one feared before comâ€" ing here. Fortunately, Conrad Sandley isn‘t typical. If he were, my father and I would have shot back to town like frightened rabbits. Nearly everyâ€" one else is charming. "shall we go and watch Mrs; Sandâ€" ley fed Later, when the prizeâ€"giving had concluded,; and "God Save the King" had been sung robustly to the acâ€" companiment of. the Sedgborough Silver Prizeâ€" Band, John walked home with Joan and the Vicar j "I still like Diana," she said at partâ€" ing. "And I think both of, you are idicts not to elope or something." § "What are you talking about, Joan?" asjzed the Vicar. He need not have asked. He had an inkling of the position existing between the Sandleys and John Morris. So had a good many others, The villagers, too, were not so lacking in perception as they seemed to be when they spoke to were nct so they seemed their betters Huntsville Forester:â€"Pilotles:; planes are a new menace in the war of arms. 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