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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929 ob \ The WIFE WHO FAILED and Brought Happiness. INSTALMENT TEN HARVEY GARRARD, find- ing 'the business which he in- " ehrited about Sankrupt, re- ngunces his idle life and turns for help and sympathy to his wife. ~+MILDRED, who has their personal property tied up for herself. But she fails him ut- terly in his crisis 'and Indig- nantly leaves him with the word that she married bim only' to be supported in lux- ury. Harvey finds a stravger alone in his office late at night ¥4 i dead in a chair, with a million - =p possession, Tr ed mer. st Rem ---- CER SE a ra e-- fn negotiable securities In his The temptaticn to appropriate this money to gelp tide over the business Is too 'strong. The man was : EBENEZER SWAYLE, but : there seems to have bezn no ord of the fortune he was tarrying, and Harvey's theft is ' undiscovered. A new phase is put on the situation, however, with the appearance of the 1ead man's granddaughter, GRACE SWAYLE, who had san engagament to meet her «grandfather and was expecting him to have an inheritance geady for her... The girl gets { "Harvey's promise that she shall be looked after, and, while. here is pondering how much she might know of the million, he is forced int> a business trip to America, and finds her on ghipboard virtval- ly forcing herself on nim as is secretary. Although guarding himself against any slip which may reveal his sec- ret, he finds the situation not unpleasant, as she draws him to tell her of his own life. Now Go On With the Story 'As he changed his clothes, Har- rey made an effort to face a situa- lion which certainly savored of the frantasticy He knew perfectiy well where'te stood as regards his wife. They Lad siowly drifted apart through the yoars, neither sf them apparently regretiing their es- trangement; he, on the other hand, finding * a relief, Her ulter lack of sympathy the troubles whiel; had overtaken Lim snd only to put the tintening touch to their gradnel but complete alientation. At with ! tha same time the idea of replacing | materi ipeMinotion toward her had never occurred to him. A right- . egue living," a somewhat esthetic { loye-making. sir a8 regards women and pos- 12 relations with them, had kept from even the merest flirtation in 'ha center of a social lifa which might certainly be described ae the agene of more or less promiscuous He had been tolerant with many of his friends ilftle affairs were notorious, always whose but * he had never left any desire tb emu- & late them. That sort of thing sim- + ply did not appeal to him. He knew now why, and he was afraid of the realization. He was a man 1a other men, hut with instinets perhaps somewhat finer than hls eyeryday ' life would seem to sug- gest; instincts which required that the ayneue toward any possible dgve-making should lead through the pleasance of sentiment. The flamboyant heanties who were his wife's society friends had interest- ad him as lttle as the slangy young sgortwomen with whom he was btought continually into esntact. fe had remained immune because pe had never heen tempted. As he Meg his tie and stood for a moment ! pefbre his looking glass he realized , sweetness of disturbing that this was almost the first time In his life that he had felt the emotions. He was ridiculously elated because he was going to spend the whole svening with ner. He was ccnecious of an amazing new interest in the hours and days spent in her comp- any, conscious, too, with a sense of ! marveloug exhilaration, that he was standing upon the threshold of a pew and undiscovered world. He tried to tell himself as he sat ! and waited for her in the dining saloon" that he had let hls fancy | play tricks with him, that she was after all a very ordinary person whose attractions he had probably greatly exaggerated. Yet when at . last she made her appearance he wag' obliged to admit that she did Indeed = possess that rare gift . amongst her sex--the gift o? per- sonality. Her composure was as natyral as the actual grace of her physical movements. Her unassum- Ing gown seemed to gain distinction from the surely perfect body round which it was draped. He realized as he rase to welcome her that at least so far as his taste was con- rerned he hal made no mistake This girl who, if she knew the truth about him, would without a "'f6ubt be planning to have him ar "vested on thelr arrival fa New York, attracted him as no other voman had done in his whole life; Tha irony of it brought la: certain biterness into hig smile as he stood nd waited whilgt she was seated, "Why so glum, dear eniployer?" she asked. "Are vou regretting that you asked me. to your 'table? Perhaps you have a returh of the tit which took you to the hows for the whole of the morning?" He ordered a little recklessly a pottle of 'ehampagne. : "On the contrary," he 'rejoined, trom a return feeling which drove "I am suffering a great desl more me there." ! "The desire for solitude?" "No. Apprehensions concerning you," She laughed softly and with the menu in d made no reply until slic lad carafully ordered her dinner, When the steward had de- parted she leaned a little forward. "An explanation, if you please," she demanded. > Li "The explanation is simple enough," he confessed. "I have made a ridiculous disgovery. am one of those absurd figares who provide humor for the comie papers and pathos for the movelist--the susceptible middle-aged man." "Middle-aged you ly are not," she declared emphatically, "You are younger than any of the young men I have ever met. If you are susceptible in a genéral way I am surprised to hear it." "In a general way, no," he ad- mitted. "My proclivities. I think, guard me against that. My trouble is that I find myself thinking a great deal to much about you." For a moment the direciness of his statement shook her insouc- fance. A slight ard un2xpected tinge otf color crept into her ¢fheeks. Her eyes, which had met his so frankly a minute or two before, dropped. "But I cannot imagine," site pro- tested, "why you should tind that disagreeable. You ought to have come and told me at once. To have heard it would have given me so much pleasure. I hope you,are still in the same condition. I like to think that you mean it." He struggled away from the note of seriousness into which he had almost lapsed. Hers was the pro- per tone and it was for him to match fit. "I am seriously considering the question," he confided, .*0f wheth- er you are not too attractive to be my secretary." : She gave a little sigh of content. "You are restoring my waning confidence," she murmured. "To tell you the truth I did not like my- gelf in the looking-glass tonight. That is why I was so late." "I can't imagine why." She took a sip of champagne. "I shall have to be careful," she sighed. "My hed ig getting turned. T'lattery is the most dangerous weapon and this wine is very ins{d- fous." The moment of peril had passed. They dined light-heartedly. but, without further serious speech. Af- terward they took their coffee in the lounge and listened to the music. The orchestra was playing an almost irresistible waltz. She looked at him inquiringly. "Tonight," he declared, "in my present state, I think that I shall not venture to dance with you" She rose very slowly to ner feet. Her arms went out towarl him, white and delicately shaped arms without bracelets or rings on her fingers. "Mine 1s the risk," she said eoft- iy. "I challenge you. Please come." She looked at him curiously as the music at last gave them a little respite. He had been silgnt for some time. His eyes were troubled and his feet had certainly lagged in the rhythm of that last waltz. "You are tired?" she asked. The idea brought a faint smile to his lips. He was in perfect physical condition now as in the Jays of more constant exercise. Neverthe- less he hesitated to promptly dis- claim the suggestion. He could scarcely confess that it was the cling of her soft body, the dclight of feeling her unrestrainedly in his arms which had caused his heart to beat so fast, his breath to shorten and pis footsteps to grow unsteady. { A thing which comes to most men and had hitherto passed him by had him now in its grip. Instinct had warned him against dancing at all that night. It had warned him now as he checked her movement toward the exit against their night- 1y promenade in the darker spaces of the ship. "I am not tired," he assured her, "hut I'd like to sit down for a few minutes. You really must dance with the next of these ship's offi- cers who asks you," he went on, piloting her toward the chairs. "I can't monopolize you like this." "Why can you not?" she asked petulantly. "I do not wish to dance with any one else. I dislike new acquaintances and having to make conversation." They sat down for a few minutes and Grace, as soon as the music struck up again, refused several in- vitations to dance. "You are a self-willed person," he sighed. "You 'should be flattered," she rejoined. "I do not like sitting here, though. If you do not wish to dance we will walk outside." He elected to dance and they moved away again as soon sg the music started. Presently she patted him on the shoulder. "Why are you so strange to- night?" she demanded. 'You are holding me now as though I were a dancing mistress and you were hav~ ing your first lesson. Hold me pro- perly at once." A moment's desperation seized him. He drew her into his arms and they glided away together, moving once more in perfect unison --both, as a matter of fact, excep- tionally good dancers. "This is better," Grace murmur- ed ecstatically as the dance contin- ued. "It is better than Paris even. You dance so well, Mr. Employer. Why, did you want to hand me over to some cne else? Are you afraid that I shall not be so good 'a secre- tary if you spoil me like this? You need not be." "With whom did you lance In Paris?" Harvey - asked, as they paused. It was his first little spasm. of Jealousy--almost the first he had ever known in his life. She leaned young back and reflected. Re ---- Copright by . By E. Phillips Oppenheim Phillips Oppenheim "There were not many," she cop- fided. "There was a young Ital- fan--Giuskppe Matrinl, = He was the friend of a girl who tock les- sons in typing and shorthand where I did. And thefe was her brother --Sidney Marsham--and another girl's brother--Paul Henanit. They were good but not so good us rou." "Which was your special friend?" he persisted. . "Sidney Marsham was supposed fo be," she answered. 'Ha asked me to marry him several times. Giuseppe and Paul used to pretend that they were in love with me, but they neither of them ask2d me to marry them." "Do you regret any of your friends?" "Not mow, for a moment. I felt very lonely and miserable when I got to the Savoy and heard what had happened. I was very miser- able the first evening I saw you. Now I regret nothing---except not seeing my grandfather before he died." . . "And the temporary loss of your money," he ventured. "That" she assured him ccnfid- entally. "I am going to recover. As son as I have seen this lawyer from Connecticut and discovered where his property was, TI shall know what to do. Every one says that the English police are wonder- ful. We shall see. At present they have nothing to go on. When I come back it will be different." "It'is not absolutely necessary to assume theft," he pointed out. "Your grandfather may have de- posited his property or securities somewhere." "In that case," she replied, "there should have been a receipt amongst his belongings. However, just now these things do not dis- tress me, I have lost all that mis- erable sense of being alone in the world/, You have been very good to mg, Monsieur Garrard," +he add- | ed softly, , Every one had moved over to the windows to watch the blaze of lights from a passing steamer. She rust her arm through his. 4' "Let us go on deck," she begged. (She led him out, They leanea fover the ship's side, watching the curfously impressive sight--a huge liner, whose shape was vaguely to be discerned with-its vast stretch of flaming lights throwing path- ways of fire across the sea. When it had passed and they could no longer hear the rhythmical beating of its engines she drew herself up. "After all,"" she declared, "I think it was rather stuffy in there. They had played all 'the best music, too. Let us go in the bows." "Too late," he answered gruffly. "But why?" she demanded. 'The officers don't like. people wandering about there at this time of night." "You are very ridiculous," she scoffed, holding his arm wore in- sistently. 'Besides, you Jo not know what you are talking about. The first officer asked ma to in the bows with him last night later than this, and the purser wanted me to go aft with him nn that funny little part of the deck tn watch the phosphorus." "The devil they did!" exclaimed. "Did you go?" "Of course I didn't" "Why not?" He felt her fingers tightening once more on his arm. 'You know quite well," she whispered. Steamer madness, he {old him- self, as they threaded thelr way forward; the sort of thing be had read about but never believed In, and pad put into the same category as the lure of the desert and the music of a Honoludu dancing hall. Something cheap about it all, the meretricious flaunt of ciremustance whose pitfalls were for those who sought them. He raised his head and patted her hand kindly. He would indicate to her precisely during the next few minutes, he decided, the nature of their rela- tions. He forgot, however, that he was playing a part, that there was nothing genuine about the role he was assuming, that he was, in fact, a poseur. . "You are rather spoiling me, you know," he said. "I think yo: cught to amuse yourself with «ame of these younger people. After tonight I shall insist upon it. I feel very gelfish keeping you to myself." "When you know me batter," she rejoined, 'vou will discover that selfishness is my particular weak- ness. I do not consider other peo- ple sufficiently. I do the thing which appeals most to me. That is what T am doing." He paused in a sheltered place to light a cigarette. She too, accepted one, but without enthusiasm. As they drew nearer their destination they met the increasing force of the wind booming through the dark- darkness, heard the crash of the sea as it spent itself and parted against the bows. Her hair was blown into confusion, her dress flung one mo- ment around her limbs, twisted the next into fantastic shapes. Ste clung all the closer to her companion, Harvey Once a shower of spray leaped over them. \ "I do mot feel very safe," she confided. 'Please put your arms round me." ' He looked down te met the full delight 'of that slow, sweat smile; the caress of her her eyes, curious ly bright in the little pool cf dark- ness into which they had stepped. He drew her close to him and gmoothed her hair, for a moment. ignoring the tremulous invitation of her parted lips. 'Grace,' 'he said--he had slip: ped very easily into the habit of calling her Grace-- "I am very nearly 40 years old and married As they neared the bows they lean-. ed over the rails and looked helow.' You are 22 and still a child, If 1 were a beast I should kiss you. As I hope I am not, I am golug to take you in." "I do not want to be taken in," she objected. "You are so droll. The first officer is a married man, and I am quite sure that he would have kissed me." "Damn the first officer!" Harvey exclaimed. "If you want--"' "But I do mot. I would not come with him, I have hrought you instead. That is very differ- ent." "Grace, dear," he plcaded, "please be sensible, Don't yu know that everything between us could be so easily spoilt? Boy and girl kisses are all very well, tut you know---they don't belong her2. Your real lips should he kept for the per- son you care about, This Ig only the feeling of a moment." ! "It is a true feeling and that is all that counts," she answered. "I am not an idealist, but I know this. I have spent many embarrassing hours preventing men from kissing me, Now I want to be kissed--and I will be." Her lips, of their accord, hovered upon his--almost rested there. He took her into his'arms and «nough remained of his resolution to bring a touch of reverence even into the passion with which he held her to him at the thrill of his lips 2s they clung to hers. When at last she drew away, it was with an exquisite little sight of joy. "I think, dear employer." she murmured," that you are the most wonderful thing on earth. Vou are not angry with me because I made you kiss me?" He struggled against t'e en- chantment of the minute. Neither to her nor to himself would he re- cognize its possibilities, though he saw the dawn of unconscions pas- sion in her glowing eyes and had felt hen heart beating agaias' his. "Dear child," he sald, "how could I be angry! We all 2ave our moment of folly, I suppose, and | have to be allowed mine. You made those moments divine." She laughed musically as he drew her reluctantly away and they retraced their steps. "And you," she confided, *'yot have made me very happy. If were clever I would tell you why. As it is, I can only tell yeu thal you seem to have made my thoughts of men nicer. "I thin) that if we never mel again after this voyage I should bt grateful to you for that ali mj) life. You se Paris--the things ont hears about among one's iriends-- even those boys--sometimes the) frighten me, Not one of them hat ever kissed me, but they have tried and sometimes there was an atmos phere rather hated. I suppose It some ways I am old for my years 2nd in others T am igno cont, bul-- I cannot tell how you did it--yor seem tonight to have made we fee much happier about everything, be sides being rather ridiculously hap py myself." "Then all ig as it should be and I shan't kick myself at all," he de clared light-heartedly. "Listen, the orchestra fs playing. still. We'll have one niore dance, a little drink in the smoking room and then bed." "Lovely!" she cried, "What 8 dear you are! Do you know," she added, clutching his arm tighter: than ever for a moment. "T think that this has heen the happiest eve- ning of my life." (Continued Tomorrow) EDITOR DEFENDS PATRONAGE SYSTEM Many Speakers Scheduled for Tax Conference at Montreal Kingston, Sept. 26-- Why I be- lieve in the patronage system' is the topic chosen by W, Rupert Da- vies, editor of the Kingston Whig- Standard, for an address he will deliver before members of the Ca- nadian Tax conference and the Ca- nadian Civil Service research con- ference of the Citizens' Research institute of Canada when they meet in annual convention Oct, 17 and 18 at Montreal. Questions or interest to taxpayers throughout the dominion will be discussed. Among the speakers will be W. L. Grant, principal of Upper Can- ada college, who will preside at the annual dinner of the institute, Oct, 18; H. M. Tory, president ot the League of Nations society in Canada, and .of the National Re- search council; Dr. H. B. Spauld- ing, of Toronto; H. W, Macdon- nell, secretary of the industrial relations department of the Cana- dian Manufacturers' association; and ©. W Watts chairman of the Manitoba Tax commission. Methods of collecting and dis- tributing the gasoline tax, the workings of the Quebec amuse- ment tax, and the question of the farmers' position among the tax- payers will be discussed in other addresses. The convention, which is to be held at the Montreal Board of Trade, will be welcomed by Mayor Camillien Houde. dingy home on Lima place, Hun~ gry little stomachs were partly fill- ed. But'the arm of the law Téach- ed out and took the thief away. A complaint to the police from Bainbridge, a' quick but methodical survey of the second-hand stores| © and the mystery was solved. Bain-| bridge said there were 28 records stolen. ~ Detectives Clifford Mosh- er and James Semple of No. 4 Di- vision were able to recover only 17. The second-hand dealer said this was the number he bought. 7 The girl was questioned by the: detectives. She admitted stealing the records. What did she steal them for? To buy food for her mother and the children, came the reply. The detectives took her to the Children's Shelter and today she will appear in juvenile court to 12 YEAROLD GIRL BREAKS THE LAW Father in Jail and Mother and Six Children Starving knows it is the best. Toronto, Sept 26.--Her father in jail, her mother and six younger brothers and sistérs weak from lack of food, a 12-year-old girl broke the law for their sake last night and became a thief. She stole fom the home of a blind man, George Bainbridge of PAGE SEVEN J WR TTR, Tal 10s A + t- = 6 i Fresh from the gardens' face a charge of theft of 17 rec- g - ords, most of them humorous. WOMEN INJURED IN AUTO CRASH S---- Two women suffered severe injur- jes Tuesday night when a tar driv- en by Al Grier cgaghéd into the front of a heavily loaded truck at the corner of King and Yonge stg. Miss Switzer, said to be a member of the Ontario Ladies' - College, Whitby, was taken to the hospital suffering from an injured knee-cap and broken ankle while Mrs. Nor- righ, another occupanf of the car is thought to have received inter- nal injuries. : George Moore, 362 Athol street, was the driver of the. truck. He was attempting to make a left turn on to Yonge street when the car, approaching from the opposite di- rection ,crashed against it. St. David's street, the father of her playmates. Unable to bear any longer the cries of the children for food, the girl took upon her shoul- ders the task of lifting the black pall of poverty which had fallen over the home on Lima place. Bainbridge, who earns a liveli- hood in a broom factory, was at work when the girl went to the St. David's street address. On some pretext or another, she succeeded in getting the Bainbridge children out of the house and then quickly glanced around to see what arti- cles of value there were to take. 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