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RASA A iL THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930 The Secret of - MARGARET YORKE By Kathleen Norris EA TR The Story Thus Wari . ° Margaret' Yorke, an attractive young woman fronl New York. |! ds: companion to Mrs. Cutting, in Californis, and governess to Mrs, | Cutting's small, adopted son, Jim.. «Mrs, Cutting knows nothing of 'Margaret's antecedents. Margaret takes a 'dislike to Mrs. Cutting's { nephew, Stanley. Crittenden, be- {cause of his apparently {dle habits. * Stanley is curious abou: 'Margaret. At a bridge game he '4+ much attracted to Margaret, bd she fs coldly Indifferent to (him. Mrs,' Cutting comes to Aargaret's room &t night and «tells Her that Mrs. Cuyler Theo- bald of New York, the former Shitley Wilson, - and once Stan- -ley' sflancee, is coming back to ®et a divorce. At the mention of Cuyler Theobald's name, Mar- saret turns pale. The family go to their ranch at Uplands, and Margaret, driving with Stanley, tells' him what she has heard 'about Shirleys' coming. Stanley takes the news calmly, Mar- garet, at the farm, finds that her dislike of Stanley is being over- come. Margaret establishes her- self as a favorite with the week- . end guests at Uplands. Stanley returns alone to the farm, after the guests have departed, and he and Margaret find themselves falling in love. Back at Bur- lingame Shirley Wilson Thebald has settled in the Ferguson house. Soclety decides not to forgive Shirley but she is deter- mined to be recognized. She attends a strawberry fete where she meets Margaret and she questions her about Stan. A week after the strawberry fete Shirley goes to the country club and sees Margaret and Jim. She tries to find out from Margaret Stan's attitude on Mrs. Cutting's adop- tion of the child. She meets Stan and has a talk with him and for the first time recog- nizes that Margaret Yorke is her rival {n securing Stan's affec- tions. Shirley. Invites Stan to spend an evening with her. She plays on his sympathy in her re- cital of her martial misadven- ture. Stan kisses her good- night. Stan telephones his aunt , that he Is bringing Shirley to sion of her lips as ste spoke, (and the angry glint in her brown eyes, made Stanley feel uncomfort-| able; he could not quite laugh at it as a childish trick, He felt un- comfortable and ashamed and even, curiously pitying of her, Women 'had always been of one type to] word out of him, befors break- fast!" 4 Stan made the mistake of i{rying to conciliate her. "I'm sorry, dear," he sald in a penitent undertone. "Don't be cross--' "Excuse me, I'm not Shipley answered sharply. "No, I know you're not, dear," Stan murmured abjectly. "Poor little girl, she lost her gold bag, and she puckered up her pretty little face and just pretended to be cross!" he said. "Oh, pleass don't talk baby- talk!" Shirley cried desperately. "I just can't stand anything more this morning!" = J "You'll find it,' Margaret said soothingly, an unwilling third in this little scene. "You've just rut it somewhere, and any minute you may remember! And do have some coffee--"" "I know I've put it somewhere, but T was hunting the house over half the night!' Shirley said, not sorry to be appeased. "On, dear!" she lamented, standing headarhy and fQespairing in the heat and ready to burst into tears. "Oh, dear--why did this have to happen just now! Stan," she said, after a moments stern reflection, on her way to the breakfast-room, "Stan, you'll have to round them all up-- everyone who was in the hoase-- there's no use having the detec- tives, otherwise! I know I had it here, and anyway, you can tell them I'm doing the same thing at my own house. Someone has it." Shirley added, at the breakfast table now, looking vaguely aot her napkin. All morning long the quiet 1if2 cross!" Stanley, before this; the type that! makes peace, that concedes, that is! dignified and self-confident. He began to realize that there is a distinctly opposed type, and that | Shirley represented it. H And when he thought this he) would try loyally to remember her good points, and perhaps would ask himself somewhat blankly 'vhat they were. What had impressed] him so, down at Pebble Beach a few: weeks ago? He would remind himself, there was--there must be, some real character, some real fineness in Shirley. She was a pretty creature, she had lots of friends, she kad had a hard road to hoe. Stan wus In- clined to be generous to her, even in the matter of their engagement. It was important to her to and somebody, and she had landed him: it had been pretty "raw," he. would think to himself, with a roe- ful grin, half contemptuous and half admiring, as be remembered the Pebble Beach days, the drink- ing, the rushing, the games and reals and excitement; remembhared that Shirley, knowing the had the Cannonsto back her. had stated saucily that ehe was going to tell them that she and Stan were en- gaged "just for the fun!" Just for the fun, and Stan had realized the significance of it all exactly as if he had bean at a play. Who was going to draw the line when it was time to stop the "fun?" Up to that time, Stan had liked Shirley. Now he hardly knew what he felt toward her. There were moods when he was actually a lit- tle afraid of her, there were othe ers when all feeling where she was concerned seemed to have dropped of the household was dem~ra'ized by the search. Margaret took 'he | precaution. before the detectives | arrived, of gathering the eleven servants of the indoor and antdoor | staff together and warning them of | what was impending. | "Mrs. Theobald believes she lost | from him like an empty garment. Stanley's spirit, at tiese times, experienced an immense blankness Every word he said to Salrley, every smile and look. seemed: strained and uneasy. [Je was aly ways glad when the critical, un- during the British Empire Trade Exhibition being held in that city opening next March, STORY OF HEROISH COMES FROM NORTH Men of Arctic Trudge Through Snow to Bury Dead Comrade Winnipeg, Dec, 9.--Aunals of the northland's heroic men had an- other page added to them last week The folk of the northern trails to- day are telling of a six-day trek through snow-laden trails by seven men, who wished to tender a dead comrade a Christian burial. As the men hauled a toboggan, on which reposed the hody-of In- grad Gurley, victim of the subarctie cold, their mission of mercy includ- ed the finding of another barren- land brother, with two legs frozen. The trapper, with his limbs useless, was placed 'upon the toboggan and the rescuers trudged along through deep snow, over huge boulders and tree stumps, to Great Falls, a jour- ney of 56 miles.' MATE OF STEAMER IS LOST ON GREAT LAKES (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Dec. 9. ----Captain Tyler of the Steamer F'. D. Squire reported here that Asa Lockhart, first mate, disap- peared from the ship while the boat was on Lake Superior late Friday night, The Squire docked down from Duluth with a cargo of grain for South Chicago. Lockhart, who comes from Mer- ino City, Mich., was last seen late Friday night making his way for- ward to his room. LARGE INCREASE IN JAPAN'S POPULATION Tokyo. Dec. 8=Official figures of the national census taken last October ber, as announced today give Japan a population of 64,447,000 of which 4,- 17,000 represents gain during the last five years. The density of population is 169 persons per square kilometer, representing an annual inerease of L.5 per cent. Nearly 400,000 laborers now are em- ployed on public works in Italy. BETHESDA BRIEFS Bethesda, Dec. 4--Mrs, E. A. Werry of Enniskillen spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. T. J. T. Cole. 'Mrs. T. A. Anderson, of Toronto, is visiting her brother, R, T. Hoar. D. K. Fraser spent a day with his son, Kenneth Fraser, at Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Scott, accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Willis Stew- art, of Tyrone, were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Doidge at Salem, Mr. and Mrs, Howard Couch, Mar- jorie and Ilene, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Baker, of Solina, recently. Mrs. Tabb and Miss Margaret Tabb of Bowmanville have been visiting Mrs. Norman Collacutt. Miss Win- nifred Cole and Mr. W. H. Gilbert motered from Toronto on Sunday and had dinner 'with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. T. Cole. Miss Ode Cole and E. DB. Cole were in Toronto for a few days last week. John Chalmers, who has been re- siding in this vicinity for two years, left on Thursday evening for Mon- treal enroute for Halifax, N.S, where he will sail on Sunday for Southampton and will spend the win- ter with his guardian, Miss Harvey at Hove, Sussex. URGE BRITISH TAX ON FOOD IMPORTS Wellington, New Zealand.--The New Zealand Dairy Council has passed a resolution urging the Government to endeavor to make arrangements with the British Gov- ernment for a tax on foreign food imports, in return for which the New Zealand Government, it 1s suggested, would agree to a reduc- tion of duty on British goods. It was stated that dairymen of the Dominion are facing a crisis owing to the low prices being ob- tained for primary products. The remedy in lower production costs, more efficient marketing, and most important, more Empire pref- erences, it was declared, WOMEN AUTO ACROSS AFRICA Miss Margaret Belcher and Miss Ellen Budgell, of Cape Town, South Africa, have just completed a tour of 8,000 miles from Cape Town to Cairo in an automobile which cost $100. The journey required 168 days, and the two women encountered snakes and were held up by floods Miss Budgell was the first taxicab driver in Cape Town, and drove an ambulance during the World War. (i tlantic City is always 'in season'" There's sever a dull ' 0 ® week-end, withus... youTireturn homefeel~ i ~fresh--vi One of the Finest Holels In Atlantic City Far a week or a week-end enjoy the luzuryel the finest A {| price. Booklet, Write or wire for reservationss| 250 ROOMS ~. OVERLOOKING THE SEA WATER BATHS C. V. MEEKS, Mgr. A.C. ANDREWS, - Ireland is waging a campaign against vaccination evaders ICI1OR PERFORMANCE it here," she said. in a smiling and | comfortable mood passed by, and significant undertone. "I dcr't. 1 |some re-establishment of her sway think she will find it at home. | over him made him fee! :he solid But, meanwhile, give thess> men [ground under his feet azain, Uplands. Shirley makes herself very agreeable. Shirley and Stan go to a house party at Peb- + ble Beach. On hie return Stan tells his aunt that Shirley has At This NEW He had no time to think sf Mar. about made up her mind to ac- cept him. Shirley is upset over the loss of a gold bag. INSTALMENT XIIt Mrs. Cuting's prediction proved | true. Shirley came in before | breakfast the next morning, and al- though Margaret did mot see he | greeting to Stam, who was playing with the collie and Jim on the ter- race, she knew it must have been bat a brief one, for almost immed- {ately Shirley came swiftly into the Mibrary, where Margaret was writ- ing checks. ! Margaret herself had given Stan- | ley but a fleeting haif-glimpse of | her eyes, when he came out to join her and the child that morning, and had- immediately disappeared. She had schooled her glance fo be mere- | ly friendly and impersonal; sehe| was woman enough to be disap- pointed. at receiving exactly the same sort of look in return. Now she was in common civility bound te return to the terrace with Shir- ley. "I shall be sick if T have lost that bag," reiterated Shirley, for the twentieth time, "Tt vas the handsomest one I've ever seen, you couldn't replace it anywhere! Oh, I ean't have lost it--it was stolen, of course, that's what it was! And my emerald ring, the emeralds and the diamond--the emeralds were worth a thousand apieco--I took it off because my hand is getting 96 thin! Oh, I'm just sick over the whole thing--T1 laid it right here, 8p. the brick wall, I remember dis- tinetly!"" "I sent Foote down last night," Margaret said, feeling her very soul flutter at the memory of that hour. but without a glance at Stan, "and this morning we've had them all searching, all down the terraces, and even in the lane!' . "Ah, well, of course they would- n't! find it,"" Shirley said with an ungracious, significarc look. "Somebody's got it. I've telephon- ed for a detective," she added, in an undertone, with a glance toward the French windows that opened into the dining-room, where one of the maids was busy, "and he'll place it--you'll see. Whoever's got it has simply got to produce it, because, even if they meited the bag and picked out the stones, it would be perfectly simple to idend ity them." 'Shirley began again, restlessly searching the 'terrace, rustling the thick, dusty leaves, kneeling (0 run her hand under the gnarled ropes of 'the vine. "Had breakfast?' Stanley asked, 2s the maid came to the door and wed A "40h, breakfast!" Shiriey echoed, outraged. "I tell you I valued that ring more 'than anything else I have!" she reminded hita, re- proachfully. "I saw'it on the Place Vendome, just after we were mar- ried--you remember it?" she ask- ed Margaret, pathetically. "It was the most remarkable thing 1 ever saw, a big clover of three emeralds, with a fourth leaf of diamonds! It was unique." "Well, you're due for another big ring," Stanley said, good-hum- oredly. ' Shirley did not hear him. "You put my coat away-- where?" she asked, impatiently. "What did you have in your hands Can't you remember?" Por twenty minutes they hunted on, while Jimmy finished, his breakfast, | : "Do go in and get your coffee Miss Yorke," the man presently said. "Or tea, rather!" he added, smiling. ' "And. Ao for pity's sake go. get 'you¥ own!" Shirley urged him. "A man is absolutely unreasonable, J there's mo use trylgs to set a evils. | of the gold baz, and seemed tn coo {it in a hundred | coat, any help you can and answer all | their questions, won't you?" The interested staff {innocently consented. But Margaret trembled for her smoothly-running domestic | macyinery when she considerad exactly the nature of the approach- ing investigation. The morning was hot, and the hours dracged, At eleven o'clock, to Mrs. Cutting's | secret indignation, the detectives | did actually arrive and begin to he businesslike and briskly interroza- | tory. (hice more the terrace and lawns | and steps were searched; Margaret now had a sort of mental micture | places: huddled limply against the potisl ferns, | dangling on a button of Shirlev's| crushed and ster=ed under the dry yellow grass of the lane. Shirley finally wen:., and want home with a blazing headache, She left. Marzaert nacifyinz Carrie and Daisy, who had been given the third | degree, according to their own storie, and were also weening. Th episode of the lost treasures quieted down in a day or two, and except for Shirlev's occasional hit. ter reference to her loss, it annar- | ently left no ripnle upon their lives. | And yet to each one of the three | young people and the srvants. the | event was permanently important, To Stanley. althousn either, Margaret nor Shirley dreamed it, the enisode, trifling a« it sesfed, had been extraordinarily signific- ant. He had seen each woman in' a new role that night: Shirlev agi. tated over the loss of jewcls an- other man had given her. furtous,| exacting, within only a few Lours of the time when she had promised, to be his wife, and Margaret for. the first time broken, gentle, rield- ing. and admittedly suffering. Stan: was not analytical; mental processes were rather slow, But even without defining it hey marvelled. in his own simple way, that Shirley, while thinking her- eel! eo admirable, could be <n frankly material and suspicious and that under Margaret's repress- ed and quiet manner the flame of an endearing and loving personal-| ity could burn so bright. Meanwhile he and Shi~lev moved, rapidly. noisily, gaily thruogh their days. He saw her radiant and pretty in her frail linens and beautiful hats. ' He marvelled, in his simple, un- exacting way, at the long tales she, told him, tales of quarrels of all sorts, in which she was invariably vietor. When she was tired, sha wanted merely to pet and be petted. Did' he know he was the "andsomest man in the St. Francis today? Well, he was. And tell her again the nice thing King Bartlett sald about her Did he? Tt was sweet of him, and she did think she look- ed nice at the dinner. And she thought---no, seriously, that Willis Hyde-Brown: had a crush on her. what did he know abou! Wasn't that killing? Stan realized, befors they had | been a month engaged, that Shir-)| ley was as eager as ever for the admiration of other men. He ils liked the idea, even while he told himself that, after all, =he would settle down when once she was his wife. "Why do you let it hother you, dear?" he.said, over and over again, as October brought the wed- ding-day nearer and nearer, and Shirley showed an increasinm In- clination to criticlze her friends, tn resent their various attitude to- ward her and her plans, and to force Stan into partisanship. "You'd let anybody walk on vour face, Stan," Shirley said, in good- natured contempt. "Ret T wan't People are going to "eo me, or I'll know why!" And the vicious little compres- his | that? |! iccent to}, garet. She slipped, quita natur- ally, into the background of Nis life. Stanley was rushing so con- stantly that Margaret's determind effort to keep ont of his way was, entirely successful, and aaite un noticed by him. Jim wa« having measles, and Nora and Margaret hardly left the cursers. But when the measles was over, it was arranged that tle 'wo wo. men should take the irvalid down {to ™iInlands" for his ronvalescenes. It was a fortnizht after *hey had gone that Stanley chanced to go down there with a cat'leman from Washinton, who had come to rate his herd. Shirley had exazied from him a promi=e tn return to Burling- ame for a dinner. for her divorce vas gronted now. and «he was tell- ing friends quite openly of her nlans, and had set the wedding- day. Stan felt an amused sym- vathy with the familiar type of harassed married man as he yrom- ised her to come back, and tact- fullv explained to the nld anpraiser that he would be obliged to leave him at the farm. "Who's boss, anyway?" to her, departing. "I'm boss!" 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