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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930 as if there had been no' roof of ice. PAGE NINE Economie Conference meeting #& she dislikes him be- cause of his apparently idle hab- its. After an evening at bridge Mrs. Cutting goes to Margaret's room at night and tells her that Mrs. Cuyler Theo- bald of New York, the former Shirley Wilson, and once Stan- ley's fiancee, is coming back to get a divorce. At the mention of Cuyler Theobald's name, Mar- garet turns pale. The family £0 to their ranch at Uplands, and Margaret, driving with Stanley Tels him about Shirleys' coming. Statley takes the news calmly. At the farm Margaret establishes herself as a favorite with the week-end guests, and after the guests have departed, Stanley returns alone to the farm »nd he and Margaret find them- selves falling In love. Back at Burlingame Shirley Wilson Theo- bald settled in Ferguson house, attends a strawberry fete where she meets Margaret and ques- tions her about Stan. A week after the strawberry fete Shirley goes to the country club and sees Margaret with 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 in securing Stan's affec-* tions. Shirley invites Stan to spend an evening with her. The next day he telephones his aunt that he is bringing Shirley to Uplands. Shirley makes herself very agreeable. They go to a party at Pebble Beach. On his return, Stan tells his aunt that Shirley has about made up her mind to accept him. Shirley is upset over ths loss of a gold bag. She calls In detectives and Mrs. Cuttings servants are questioned. Jim, who is recovering from measles, is taken to Uplands. Stan takes Mr, Kent, a cattle- man to the ranch and returns to town. Margaret telephones Stan that Mrs. tting is very {ll and that they haye returned to town. Mrs Cuttings' {lines proves fatal. INSTALMENT XVI Ten days after Mrs. Cutting's death, Margaret came downstairs to find Stanley in the library, an hour before dinner. Shirley and Joe Cannon were to call for him at seven, to take him off for a quiet meal and a game of bridge at Joe's house. He was already dressed, /and had been going over some {papers that had arivred only that jday from the old family lawyer in New York. "Stan," .the girl said without preamble, coming up to him, an at a] nos aan face, one hand laid®impulsively upon his coat-lapel, "something has happened. I have to tell you something--I though I need never tell anyone. But it's no use now, you're got to help me. You'li have o believe me, "You wofi't at first--- ean hardly believe it myself, sometimes! But--God help us all! it's all true." i Stanely Crittenden loked up from {his papers with an expression of relief; as a matter of fact this was almost his and Margaret's first jopportunity of being alone together since the funeral. | "Yes, I want to talk to you, too," 'he said, as she sat down opypcsite (him. "You know, of course, hat t was my aunt's pln to have you stay on, as a sort of guardian ancel fo the boy?" "How do you mean, her plan?" Margaret asked, evidently diverted om what she had come to say. "Well, she had spoken of it to (Nora--" Stanley began. But Mare [garet interrupted him quickly. "Ah, you mustn't go by Nora, ear old woman! She's loyal, you now, she's utterly biassed!' "It isn't only Nora,' Stanley an- wered. 'But on that last night y aunt spoke to me of you, said that you understood the little boy, and that she hoped you would stay [with us--with him. I told you that." Margaret looked thoughtful, "The. what I came to talk to [you about," she said, "Does Mrs. (Theobald know that you plan to jleave Jim in my care?" ) "Shirley?" he said surprisedly. "Whats the difference whether she oes not? "Well, let us suppose that pres- ntly she makes some objection?" argaret persisted. | "You are certainly hunting for {trouble," Stan said disapprovingly. "The point is," Margaret began, With some difficulty, "that--an 'obligation--a promise, to the one person in the world who counts 'with me, makes it necessary for me to know whether or not there is to 'be a change. It fsn't.only my own iness--but it, concerns some- else--So I thought 1f we could le that question nmow?...." "There is nothing 'to settle, if you will stay," Stan said. "Mrs. Theobald suggested that ora spoils Jim, and she asked me esterday--"" Ma was begin- ng, unconvinced, when Stan again his own surprise, Interrunted. "Youtrdon't like her, do you? Tell me why you don't like her." "She doesnt like me," Margaret presently offered, jn true feminine fashion. "And as she is to be your wife and you are my employer,' she added, logically, "I naturally yf { '40h, where do you get all this {employer rot--why can't you be friendly * Stanley interrupted 'again, impatiently. "I need some-: £0 run Jim and Nora and «ll the of the crew, and you want a ob--I take it--that keeps vou out place, so if you want to make dif- ficulties, by all means--" "No, I'm not trying to make dif- ficulties, Stan!" she protested, sud- denly penitent and simple agam. "It's only----that I want so much to sfhy, that I'm anxious. Of course 1 want to take Jim and Nora and go down to 'Uplands.' We could take the log cabin there, if you lik ed, and not be in your way if you wanted to bring friends!" "Oh, for heaven's sake, siop this meek stuff!" Stan sputtered. "You want to stay, and I tell you I need you--that's enough. What Shir- ley says doesn't count, do you see? she's excitable," he apologized "'#nd naturally all this upsetting of .ur plans has--sort of--upset her." "Ah, well, itll be in a few weeks now, I suppose? Margaret question- ed "What will----our marriage " Stanley asked sharply. "I don't know," he answered unencourag- ingly. And it seemed to him unfair that she should ask him this so cas- ually, as if it were nothing to her ghat he was to marry Shirley! "And now, what did you come to tell me?" he asked. "To answer that were to confess to you," she answered. "I needn't now, if I'm to stay. Not yet, any- way!" Stan's recognition of this was to leave his chair, to cross to hers, to kneel down, and to encircle her with his arm. Unalarmed she laid one beautiful, sensitive hand upon his shoulder. "Then confess to me!" he said, trembling and smiling. "Stanley, what's the matter with us?" Margaret - asked. "We-- oughtn't to act this way." "I don't know!" Stanley with a little laugh. "You don't love me, and I don't love you," Margaret said. "No, I suppose we don't" he con- ceded. "So please--' she warned him, in a voice of fear--"please--1I ask you not to--do this sort of thing." "No," Stan said, after thought. "I won't". After a pause Margaret got to her feet, and coming close to him she eaid: "I'll go down. to the farm to- morrow. 1 don't think we ought to meet until we can act with-- with some--Really," she broke ff, "really, T don't know what's come over me!" "I'll be down at the farm in a few days," Stan promised her, in a businesslike tone, with « brief glance. But immediately he caught up her hand, and touched it to his lips. Margaret stood immovable, thought and reason suspended; the world standing still. ® "Well!" said Shirley's voice, light and laughing, from the door- way. Margevel SUU STAT STATION APATT. the man's face instantley brick-red be mow or mever--it must be now} or never--" "You don't Tube ; Bind Sour kissing that pretty girl, n Shirley asked. "If he has kissed | her, he won't deny it, she thought, "and if that performance 'his eve- ning was the worst, he'll say so." Stanley sald nothing, and ghe drew her own conclusions. : "My dear, do you suppose I have- n't seen that you like her?" she asked good-naturedly. She had carried away his hat and coat, and now came to the big chiir where he was seated, and establish ed herself upon the arm of it, al- most in his arms. "Dear me," Shirley mused. "How well I know her type! Sle's really a trouble-maker, you know," she told him, amusedly, "the sort of woman who is just too good, and, too unfortunate, and too sronged generally, to be wholesome!" | "She doesn't seem to me that sort,' Stanley said, nettled. | "No dear,,' Shirley cchceded h.m,| always with the air of enlightening a very small boy, 'Because she pretty, and she flirts with you! And she lets you kiss her, does she?" she asked, dreamily. "For heavens eake, Shirley!" Stanley seid. getting somewhat roughly out of his chair and going to stand at the hearth, Shirley, quite unruffled, -1id nto the seat without removing her smiling, quizzical look from his face. ; "Give me your solemn ord of honor that you never kissed her," she sai! superbly tolerant. .nd as Stanley, miserably confused, scowled without replying, she laughed. "Exactly!" she said. "She is the the soul of homor, of but a few weeks after your aunt's death, and just before your wo marriage, she is letting you kiss her! My dear Stan, do you think I'm angry? 1 don't care that about Miss Yorke!" and Shirley -napped her fingers eontemptuously. "Bug doesn't it show you the kind of a women she is?" she finished shrewdly. "My dear girl, what you think of Mjss Yor'e is nothing to me!" Stanley interrupted hotly, "And what we both think of her is noth- ing to her. But I .ssure you that you're absolutely wrong! She--" Yes, she's wonderful, and she's beautiful, and she's everything!" Shirley conceded, interrupting kim. "But you let her alone, dear. I'm not cross, and I'm not jealous, but, it's for your own good. Why, as far as I'm concerned you can do what you like, with this woman or any other," Shirley assured Lim generously. "But it's heneath your own dignity, Stan. You tell her." Shirley said lightly, smiling up into his face with her innocent, deter- mined eyes, 'that in our class zen- tlemen don't play with nretty lad es when they are engazed to be mar-/ ried! Before I'd let her have you, Stan," Shirley finished. always with, a half-merry, hadf-saucy ir, "I'd fight it in the courts! ., 1 would!" she added, quidkly and seriously, as he laughed. "She ehan'y rele your MHfo ead mine, too!" hammering with terror. For a second all three were motionless: then Shirley, who looked her pret! | she asked, smilingly. tiest came forward, smiling indul- gentiv, i ; "Well, is that the way you say, goodnight to Miss Yorke, Stan?" "You're .ate, you bad boy, and Joe's outside simply frothing at the mouth.... Come, Stan! My deat,' Margaret heard her add comfortably, as they went away. Margaret stood still, as they left her. alone in the quiet library, her cheeks flaming. "Horrible woman---s"@ saw that' Margaret said, half aloud. "What am I thinking of---to act this way! I know he's engaged--I must bey crazy! She saw that--she'll think, we have been flirting--vperhaps we. have! I'll have to stop this, right' here and now. She might break her engagement! I wonder if he jrealizes that it wouldn't make the slightest difference, #s far as 1 am' concerned if she did!" i But if Stanley had any of the same fears they were not destined to be realized. Joe Cannon was, waiting in the motor outside, and as Shirley swept into it she turned to look at Stan, over her shoulder, and sald with supreme good-hum- or: "Oh, you naughty, naughty boy! And the demure Miss Yorke, too! And stupid, stupid me, never to have seen a thing!" Stanley, getting in after her, and naturally prevented from speaking by the presence of the impatient Joe, felt that once more she had dexterously placed him in a false position, and once more made him helpless as far as reply or retalla- tion went, "No, but, Tanny dear," she said to him later in the same evening, when Joe had heen called to the telephone, and Emily had gone out to the pantry to see about refresh- ments, "Tanny dear, I'm not Jos to say anything about what I saw tonight--other men have kissed! me, and she's pretty, and she was very close to your aunt, and 'all that. #But don't you think, since we are to be married so soon-- that perhaps it would be as well to give Miss Yorke a hint that she might be making her pland? There's no earthly reason why she should stay in the house while Jim's' away--"" "Miss Yorke will. probably go down to the farm," Stanley could say. 'She needs a rest." "Stan, a rest from what?" Shir. ley asked sharply. » Stanley did not answer. He saw the color creep into Shirley's face and that her eyes narrowed danger- ously, But nothing more was said between them until he had taken her to her own house. Then she walk ed into the drawing-rom, saying to him, over her shoulder: "Could he come In and talk to Shirley?" Stanley, extremly uncomfortable of the pub You could go 2 pel RE places, and T could. u't possibly get anyone to fill your over his smooth tan, the girl's »eart [ in the sudden need to summon all his forces, followed her in. It just (Continued tomorrow) WRIGLEY COMPANY TO BUY WHEAT IN WESTERN CANADA Cash From Western Sales to be Invested in Wheat Market Toronto, Dec. 12.--All money owed to it in Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta will be used by the Wm, Wrigley Jr. Company. Ltd., to buy wheat until May 1 next, J. Allan Ross, president of the company announced on Wed- nesday. Until that date, all wholesalers' remittances from the prairie prov- inces will be put into a fund to be known as the Wrigley Wheat Investment Fund at Winnipeg. Unless No. 1 Northern goes above 65 cents a bushel, the entire amount of this fund will be used to buy May futures in wheat until 1,000,000 bushels has been bought. A circular thus outlining the plans has gone out to western wholesalers handling Wrigley pro- ducts. The plan covers amounts now owed the company and all ac- counts contracted between now and next May 1. Observers saw the scheme last night as a potent force for the restoration of grain prices, particularly if other firms adopt the same measures. Bonus for Wholesalers Every wholesaler will receive from the company a bonus of one cent per bushel for each bushel of wheat bought by his remittances, Mr. Ross's announcement stated. A certificate will be sent him, on the occasion of each wheat pur- chase, showing the amount bought by the sum remitted. ENDLESS RAILWAY OPENED Opening of the Schauinsland sus- pension railway near Freiburg marks an epoch in the Yevelopment of rope- way lines, for it is the first endless system of transporting passengers on a large scale. Formerly the pendu- lum system, by which two cars moved alternately up and down, was em- ployed. Eight cars on the new line are fastened to the endless rope and travel all the way round. Each has a capacity of 27 passengers. Outside the cars are special containers for baggage and a searchlight. e cabin contains the lighting apparatus and a telephone for communication with the engineer operating the driving wheel. The length of the ropeway is nearly 12,000 feet and the negotiated height is nearly 2,500 feet. £1,500,000 Dock Extension The Grimsby fish dock extension, which is to cost £1,500,000, has Which-ever way you chance to turn There's always something you can ~--Jjerry Muskrat. "You follow me," said Jerry Mus- krat to Stumpy, his three-legged son who was making his home with his parents in the big house in the Smil- ing Pecl. "You follow me and I will show you what to do now that ice covers the Smiling Pool, making a hard roof as you call it. You say that when you went out this morn- ing you could find no place to get fresh ann anc had all you could do to get back here again. This is because you dian't know what to do or where to go for air. You follow me and 1 will show you how to go about in cemfort when Jack Frost has put a roof on the Smiling Pool" Jerr, vskrat filled his lungs with air and Uisappeared in the waler-fill- ed hall that opened in the floor of the house. Stump filled his lungs with air and followed. They came out of the doorway in the mud on the bot- tom of the Smiling Pool and Jerry y : led the way upward. Stumpy had a queer feeling. He had that very morning come up in just this way and had bumped his nose against the ice which has formed in the night, the first ice he had ever seen or felt. He had had hard work to hold his Lreath long enough to get back into tiie house where there was fresh air, Was his father going to make the same mistake? It looked that way. But Jerry did not swim clear to the top. Just a little below this he straightened out and head for the bank. Stumpy followed, although he really was afraid to. He couldn't believe that they could possibly swim over to that bank and back again without fresh air and where could they 'get this if they couldn't push their noses out of water? He was tempted to turn back. Yes, sir, he was so. However, common sense whispered that his father must know what he was about. So Stump kept ol Under the edge of the bank Jerry Stumpy did the same. To his sur- prise he found there was a little air space there and he could fill his lungs with fresh cold air. There was plen- ty of it. The roof of ice lcpt him fiom putting his nose up in the out- er air, but there under the edge of the bank the water didn't quite touch the ice and there was air enough for a Muskrat or several for that mat- ter. Then Jerry led the way to the bank on the other side and there it was the same way. After this Jerry dived and dug up a root and with this swam back to the house. Stum- py dived at the same place and found another root which he could get hold of with his teeth without having to dig it out. With this he swam back to the house, Meanwhile Mrs. Jerry and Stumpy's sister had also come out in search of breakfast. Once back in the house Jerry turn- ed to Stumpy. "Now you sce how it is done," said he. Stumpy nodded. "Yes," said he. "1 see how it is done. Is there always air under the edge of the bank?" "Almost always," replied Jerry. "If there wasn't there would still be a way to breathe, I'll show you the next time we go out. Just now, hav- ing had some exercise and my break- fast, I feel like a nap." So Jerry curled up and went to sleep. Presently the other members of the family returned, ate breakfast and went to sleep. Stumpy. couldn't go to sleep. No, sir, he couldn't go to sleep. He tried but it was uscless. He kept thinking how strange the Smiling Pool was with a roof over it, a roof through which the light came Muskrat gently pushed his nose up. Now that he knew how to get fresh air he was no longer afraid. So pre- sently he slipped out and swam across to' where the Laughing Brook enters the Smiling Pool. To his surprise he found that the Laughing Brook was not frozen over. So here he had a chance to climb out and see how the Smiling Pool looked with a roof over it, (Copyright, 1930, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: "Stumpy Has an Adventure." SNOWDEN OPPOSED T0 EMPIRE PLAN FOR FINANCING Says Government Has Not Considered Scheme of Co-operation London, Dec. 12. --Rt. Hon. Phil- ip Snowden, chancellor of the ex- chequer, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that he could not see any sufficient reason for adopting a suggestion that the British government should consider the advisability of preparing propo- sals for financial co-operation be- twen the governments of the Em- so that they could see almost as well pire, for submission to the Imperial Ottawa next year. Captain Peter MacDonald, Con- servative, then asked if the British government was not making any preparations for the Ottawa confer- ence, - "The member must assume noth- ing of the sort," the chancellor briefly replied. The suggestion of Empire finan- cial co-operation was made by Cap- tain MacDonald, who urged propo- sals with a view to establishing an imperial trade credits scheme, an empire bank of settlements, or a British imperial trade currency, or alternatively, other proposals with a view to improving the financial arrangements between London and the capitals of the Dominions. 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