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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928 PAGE SEVEN Dessiter dropped his cigarette and forgot to pick it up. Miss Brown's eyes grew larger and larger, her de- mure little mouth was open, her first expression was ome of bewild- «ered surprise. Immediately after- nu tae a litle rush of color In Me don't understand you," she faltered. "Then for the first time I am fitness in you, Miss Brown," arabels went on, "My words lain enough. I have never bh t of marriage, but I shall be Prime Minister within a fow months end it has been suggested to me b* the present occupant of that office that a wife is almost a mne- cessity. It would he impossible for me to live with an ordinary woman, Yours is the type whica appeals to me. I repeat my offer." Miss Brown rose to her feet. She looked appealing across the room toward Dessiter, but his face was averted, "TI am to take it them that you are serious?" she asked incredul- ously, "I am not a man," he answered, "who wastes or needs to repeat his words. However, the occasion is perhaps unusual, although 1 had hoped that you would have been able to answer me one way the other without hesitation * "I will try to do this then." Brown acquiesced, very much, but I do not wish to marry you." Merabels considered for a mom- ont, "Is there anything more I should have said--any information you de- aire? From my abservation of you I had gathered that sucl, would he unnecessary, I offer you an assur- ed position, a comfortable home and all the attention of a hushand." "All three of which I must res- pectfully decline." There was a moment's silence. To all appearance Miss Brown was now quite ealm, She glanced at the elock, put the cover on her type- writer and, moving acroas the room, took down her coat and hat, "There Is nothing mare can do Colonel Desiter?" she asked. "Nothing, thank you," he replied, looking at her curiously, IT will not insult my estimate nf your character," Marahels said, "by asking if your decicion 1s final, You will permit me to say, however, that I regret it." "I am very sorry," Miss Brown rejoined. "Good-night. And good- night, Colonel Dessiter." ""Good-night, Miss Brown." She closed the door behind her and went down the steps toward the elevator with trembling knees, Outside in the street into waleh she passed with unseeing eyes she was conscious of being tapped iight- Ty upon the arm, She hesitated. to find Paul looking down into her face with his usual boyish smile, "You forgive that I am here to meet you?" he asked eagerly, Of course, Have yon waiting long?" "Barely half an hoar, hecause--"" "Do you mind not telling me just now," she interrupted, "but walk with me until I speak, and say nothing," He obeyed without a word, after # single anxious downward glance, Miss Brown was wholly unable to account for the curious emotion which possessed her. Her knees were still trembling; she was con- scious that the tears were very near her eyes. It was a turihulent agita- lon which she failed utterly to un. derstand. For Marabels, as a magnificent machine, a sort of mechanical sup- erman, she had always had the most profound admirat'on. He ex- sted for her as something entirely putside the amenities of personal Jite. Why she should be so affect- ed by his amazing declaration re- mained then for long afterward a mystery to her. Lacking any ordi- nary explanation, she decided as they neared Northumberland aven- ue, that it was because no man bhe- fore had ever asked her to marry m "I am recovered," she announced puddenly. "Nothing has happened, I trust, to upset you?" #Nothing that should have upset me, It was simply an overwhalm- ing surprise. Now tell me why you came to meet me." #Cap't you guess?" he asked, "Isn't this the night Mis: Frances was coming up?" Why I believe it is," she admit- heen I came , Miss Brown" he went on I you come to dinner tonight-- ng her." #Ot course I will," she assented promptly. "I know Frances would be terribly disappointed if we din- ed anywhere else. No night clubs, , Mr. Paul." #That is a promise. I knew nothing of what was likely to hap- pen that might, of coure I am t , very sorry, It may be though, the pas, You have heard rum- ors #I hear nothing but rumors--and : H few facts--all day long," Miss rown declared. "There's a late edition just out " announces semi-officially that the Government has refused Abel Deape's condition that one of act ores on should be .llowed It it will have to choose bet- k3% alienating his foreizr support- the whole scheme "You are quite right mot to," assented. "You must excuse that I am very, very interested. | very difficult matter, "I thank | Those three men who have brought their millions over here bring moth- ing of the spirit of Russia There is nothing Russian abou: them ex- cept their pirth. Their discomfit- ure here would be a joy to us he- cause any blow to the Russia of to- day helps us forward the Russia of tomorrow." "It is quite matural," Miss Brown conceded gravely, "that you should be interested in anything which has to do with your country, * «+ ¢* You shall now tell me, if you please, what you are going to offer us for dinner?" He laughed heartily, "Forgive me that I am so garrul- ous," he begged. '"'There will be a clear soup--not so bad, There will be at least the cheese with it to re- mind you that if we could have afforded it it would have been pet- ite marmite And then there is some veal. It is very good veal. My father usually grumbles, but he has dined off it already and he says that it is good veal." "Then there is a campot of fruit," Miss Brown ventured, with a bare« ly represssed smile, "How did you guess?" he de- manded, "Bananas and organges and thin slices of apple." "Wonderful! But, yon see," he went on apologetically, "fruit is a Far two- pence extra you can have a small jug of cream, There is no profit on that, I can assure you, and it makes a difference," "It sounds a most delicious din- ner," Miss Brown declared, "and | am getting hungry talking about it. I'll fetch Frances and you can rely upon seeing us in three-quar- ters of an hour, But before you 80, Mr, Paul--I am gning to take a taxi from here--1I have a question to ask you, They passed under a gas lamp, and Miss Brown drew from the pocket of her coat a pages from one of the morning {llustrated papers, "Tell me, Mr, Paul, is that you and your father?" She pointed to a pleture in the center page, Tt was a snapshot of | Paul's father in full uniform, with | a long line of medals and decora- tions across his chest, and hy his/ side Paul, in the white uniform of the Russian bodyguar!, also with medals and decorations. Under' néath was a brief lfne: i Two of our Russion guests leav: ing Buckingham Palace after the Levee ' this afternoon--General| Prince Serge Alexis of Noradia, a connection of the late Crar, and his! only son, Prince Paul of Norgadia, | Paul flushed a little as he glane-, ed at the paper. "I am very sorry that the photog- haphers were too quick for us," he said, 'Please do not tell Fran- ces, Please forget it yourself it you can, We go once a vear to humor my father, He thinks it is a duty we owe the family, We change at a friend's house mear, and "up till now we have escaped discovery, It was most unfortun- ate." "Let me take vou a ljttle way." | Miss Brown begged, with her foot. on the step of a taxi, But Paul, with his shabby bowipe hat in his hand and his overcoat, flapping about him, had already! disappeared into the misty twi- light, » * Prances had removed her out-| door clothes and was lounging in| her dressing gown, mot as usual) upon the bed hut in the one easyj chair. An unopened evening paper/ lay by her side and an nnlighted! cigarette dropped from her lips "Hurry up," Miss Brown enjoin- i ed, as she took off her coat. "We! are going to dine with Mr, Paul. He knew you were going to be up| and he came all the way to White-! ball and waited half an hour out-| side to get me to promis", | Frances' face softened for a moment, and then she indulged inf a little grimace. "Oh, 1 don't know," she exclalm- ed dicontentedly. "What the use?"| "You don't know?" her friend repeated. "Why, I thought you Hkeg, Mr. Paul." ent; the light shone out of her: eyes. "Of course, I like Paul," she re-| eated. "Any fool would, He's one' of the dearest beings alive. He makes any of the other men one meets seems absolutely impossible,' but 'don't you see, Edith, what's the! good of it all? That poor hoy, ear rying the restaurant upon his back, supporting his mother, father and sister and only doing it by sheer, slavery! What's the good of ador- ing him? What place is there for me or for you or for any of us in his life, except just a few moments' of pleasent friendship? And then! --Ilook here!" She flung the same Sinstrated| paper which Miss Brown had seen] upon the table. "A Prince!" she scoffed "A pret; ty Princess I should make, wouldn't 1, trying to live on what was left over after Paul had fed the family. Poor boy," she went on, "I'd do anything in the world to help him.| give him anything in the worid Le| avked for, but it wouldn't help | either of us. You're a Jittle fool. ; Edith, to keep on bothering me! about him. He's a great deal more; dasferons to me than all the Frank- la in the world ever were, You don't know how near I was last! time I saw him to throwieg my arms round his neck and talling! him what a dear I thought him, and asking whether there wasn't amy' war ) I could make him a Hittle hap- ) pler." Miss Brown went oyer apd Pai ed her armg round Frances' should-: Kr | QU, BROWN ),' Elie ers. There was sympathy in her tone, grave though it was. "And even then, dear," she whis- pered, "it wouldn't hava heen dan- gerous at all. Paul would have taken you in his great arms, he would have thought that it was Just the custom among English girls to be frank, and he would have led you to his mother and father and introduced you with a little set speech as hig fiancee." "And they would have groaned," Frances murmured, with a smlie, half humorous, half piziful, "and thought to themselves--'another one to feed!" ™ "If they had felt like that," Miss Brown declared, "you would never have known it = They are of the world who know how to hide such- things." "Well, anyhow, it wouldn't have done," Frances sighed, "That's the eruel part of things. Life's beast- ly, anyway. I've played the game up to my twenty-sevemth year, and: the only two men worthy thinking about who have ever wanted to have anything to do with me are! Noel Frankland and JFaui One| isn't a gentleman and the other's; a Prince with a family to support! and not a penny to do it with." Perhaps for the first time in her life Miss Brown was a little hard. "Frances," she said firmly, "you ought to he ashamed of yourself, Whether he can afford to marry you just now or not there are mil lions of girls in your pasition who would give anything in the world to have a man like Pavl care for them and tell them so, That, in it- self, would seem sufficient happil- ness.' Frances was instant!y repentant. She threw her arm round her friends neck, half erying, half laughing. 'My dear, of course ' you're right!" she exclaimed, "I'm a sel- tish, egotistical little plg, whining away like this, Run in and have your bath, dear, I've had mine, I'm going to put on my prattiest drees and we'll go and line with Paul." 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For complete information time tables and folders, I= alion 0 Limited Owen Sound, Ont. or any Steamship or Railway Ticket Office, I Do you, Mr. Contractor, or you, Mr. Average Citizen, carry the ides gained from past experience that you cannot get good lumber peo- ducts at fair prices in Oshawa? If s0, we venture the statement that you have never visited us. Our pledge of hourly delivery of anything from stock anywhere in Oshawa still stands, and as for the lumber, it is here for you to see, and we invite your inspection. Telephone us--2821. Oshawa Lumber Co., Limited 25 Ritson Road North Phone 2821 | by machines, | ave the order of the OPGANIZATION 1§ REGOMMENXED BY LABOR PRESIDENT A. R, Mosher in Labor Day Message Points Out Need for Education By Canadian Press) PI ont. Sept. 3. -- A. R. Mo- sher, president of the All-Canadian Congress of Labor, issues the follow- ing Labor Day message: "Labor Day dawns this year upon a troubled in- dustrial world, There are many fac- tors in it which can bring only de- spair to the workers, and yet there are a few shafts of rosy light which relieve the prevalent blackness and give ground for hope. The most im- mediate and pressing problem, the world over, in my opinion, is unem- ployment, If, on a map of the world, the areas in which people are suf- fering from undernourishment due to lack of work were shaded in black, it would stagger the short. sighted optimist who thinks that "all is for the best in the hest of all pos- sible worlds." And the worst of the situation is that this is not a tem- porary depression, such as the work- ers have often endured in the past; it is now a chronic and permanent condition, due to the failure of the competitive system to provide for human welfare. "The population of the world is large and is increasing steadily, but recent studies have shown that the earth could sustain ten times its present population, spread out over the habitable areas. There has al- ways been enough food to go round if it were distributed equitably, there are abundant natural resources, and man's inventive genius is so produc- tive that there is no reason why ev- ery human being should not have enough food, clothing, and the other necessities of life, But the present economic system lays down the law , that, unless you are a capitalist, you must earn your bread by the sweat of your brow, and the whole ten- dency of modern industry is to pro- duce more and more goods with less expenditure of human energy. In ev- ery country, the same process 18 op- erative; workers are being displaced being made by government or other ployed. The capitalist "owners," or- agencies to take care of the unem- ganized into huge corporations, ap- propriate the profits created hy ma- chinery, while the great mass of hu- manity lives on half-rations or less. Blg business in the saddle; mergers day among banks, automobile companies, chemi- cal concerns, and so on, while inter- national groups fight one another for control of the world's natural re- sources, "Against massed capital, the work- ers present divided fronts; many of {hem as yet unorganized, and the or- ganists split into various groups. Huge combines almost everywhere are fighting unionism, and opposing every effort to improve the social and economic status of the workers. Public opinion is often misguided, and unable to see through the mystic maze of modern finance, and civili- zation, based on the jungle system, is threatened with disaster. #Such are the clouds which loom over us. Have they a silver lining? It seems to me that there is only one hope for the workers; it is not new, but it constitutes a program for action, Here it is, in three words, organization; education, agitation. The workers in every country must become class-conscious; organize in- to effective groups, courageous and determined; federate those groups into national bodies, which in turn will be aMliated with world-organi- zations. selves and the public, and them, by such constitutional means as may be found most practical, create a new social and industrial order. The present profit worshipping system must go and in its place we shall have a system where human weltare will receive first consideration. OLD ON A NEW AND AN OID, This little story, I am assured, is quite new: An American lady "doing" Europe arrived in London. There she met a friend, who asked her if she had been to Venice in the course of her travels. "Why, yes" was the answer, "but we only stayed a day there. The whole place was flooded and all the folks were going about in boats!" This reminds me of an ancient story which some of you may mot ed the mother if they had been to Rome. "Say, Sadie" said the mother to the daughter, "did wy why they are ~--Chicago Ev Chrysler Car Total Wreck in while mo provision is They must educate them- THREE INJURED AS AUTO RAMS TRUCK Crash--Victims Taken to Hospital Port Hope, Sept. 4. -- Three peo- © were committed to the Port Hope Hospital as a result of injuries re- ceived when a Chrysler Sedan, driven by J. McKeign, Homes Road, Mira, Cape Breton, crashed into a Red Star Transport truck near Roseberry Hill on the provincial highway, five miles west of Welcome at five o* clock Saturday morning. The truck was driven by Fred Sanders of 375% Front street, Belleville. The three passengers in the Chrys- ler car who were injured include An- gus McKeign, owner of Lincoln Ave., Detroit; Stewart McKeign and Walter Spain of the same address. These three were taken to the local hospital suffering from minor inju- ries. The.driver, who was catapult- ed through the roof of the ear, sus- tained a bad cut on the head and was taken to the Office of Dr. R. McDerment, Walton street. The Michigan car was proceeding westerly and crashed into the truck, that was on the right hand side of the pavement. The driver had been in charge of the car during the great- er part of the night and it is thought he may have dozed for a few min- utes. The truck was partly in the ditch and the front of it was dam- aged. The car remained on the pacement and was turned around facing easterly after the crash. The wrecked auto was taken to Bailey Bros. Garags and is a com- plete loss. The entire front is crushed in and top smashed and considerable other damage. WHY TAXES GO UP (From the St. Mary's Journal-Argus) Municipal taxes everywhere are higher than they were some yeas ago, but this does not necessarily mean that local governments are profligate. 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