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Oshawa Daily Times, 30 Sep 1931, p. 2

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-~ fHE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1957 RALLY DAY HELD. Seagrave, Sept, 28.--Rally Day services in connection with our Sunday school on Sunday were largely attended. The morning - gervice was conducted by the superintendent, Mr. John Mark, - assisted by the pastor, Rev. B. F. Green. The scripture lesson was _read by Eric Mills, Joe Grantham and Glen Wanamaker. Mr, Gold " of Uxbridge delivered a very . pleasing and inspiring address . which all should remember and henefit by. The Uxbridge United " Church Sunday school orchestra * with Mrs. Gold at the organ fur- "nished splendid music. The solo "py Miss Iva Reynolds and quar- ¢ tette sung by the Misses Fernie Moon, Adele Wooldridge, Dor- othy Reynolds and Alexa Stone were well received. A vote of thanks were tendered Mr. Gold and his splendid orchestra and to all who helped to make the serv- ice a success. The evening serv- -. ice was in charge of the pastor, who preached a good sermon with . the choir rendering special music, accompanists at the organ being . Mrs. Gold, Mrs. B. Dawson and . Mrs. R. Scott. Thanksgiving services and free will offering will be held in the United Chureh on Sunday, Oct. 11, The morning service will be in charge of Rev, F. W, Newell of Blackstock and in the evening by * Rev. Mr. Owens of Uxbridge, The "/ Zion choir will hender special music at both services, A large number from the com- munity attended the Lindsay Fair. Congratulations to Nestle- ton and Oshawa for winning the a CArs, 3 Mr, and Mrs, x» Oshawa. spent the home of Mr. » Short. Mr. and Mrs. G. Moase, of Lit- « {lg Britain, were visitors on Sun- day of Mr. and Mrs. F. Heatley. Mr. and Mrs. W, McPherson 2 and Mrs. Medd, of Toronto; Mr. J, : Mark and Mr. Robertson, of Lind- say, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Mark, on Sunday. Miss Ruth Brochel and Mr. M. McMillan spent Sunday at Saintfield with Mr. and Mrs. G. «: Holdershaw. as. Mrs. R, Scott and Mrs. S. J. ": Wooldridge were visitors at Myr- =: tle, on Sunday afternoon, =~» Mr, and Mrs. F. McCleady and -« Mr, Stephenson, of Toronto, visit- « od Mr. and Mrs. J, Harding, on Sunday. . ' Mr. and Mrs. I. Irwin and Sina, .. .accompanjed by Mr, and Mrs, . Aristle Stone, were in Whitby, on Sunday. Mrs, F. Grose and Mr. Elgin - Frise, of Toronto, spent Sunday : with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. ++ 'W. Frise. v © Miss tla Moon and Mr, W, Keen spent the week-end in Toronto. Miss Luella Atkins and Mr. Jim Atkins, of Toronto, were .. the guests of their sister, Mrs. H. Eagleson. Mr. J. Harding was a business visitor to Toronto, on Friday last, Mrs. 8S. J. Wooldridge and daughter, Dorothy, accompanied by Miss Bessie Bushby, Mrs, L. Scott .and Master Beverly Scott, _ were visitors in Greenbank, on Monday. H. Collins, of the week-end at and Mrs. W. ; "And to think you were just a struggling young business man when I married you!" "Yes, but I didn't enough." struggle HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOL FIELD DAY Keen Competition Shown Between School Children in Many Events (Mrs. H. Willson, Correspondent) Harmony, Sept. 28---Harmony Public School Field Day, was beld on the school grounds on ¥riday, Sept. 25, starting at 2.45 p.m., under the auspices of the Harmony Home and School Club. The events and prize winners are as follows:- Races Girls under 6 years. --Mary Hazell, Betty Kearney. Boys under 6 years. --Gordon Milling, Grant Hart. Girls 6 years. -- Vida Walmsley, iielen Brown, Margaret Thomp- som. Boys 6 years. -- Bruce Kear- ney, Keith Fletcher, Bobbie Hicks. ' Girls 7 years, -- Rosa Prest, Melba Hornby, Patsy Kearney. Boys 7 years--George Jackson, Donald Cordy, Grant Peters. Girls 8 years. -- Eileen Rod- gers. Annie Smith, Orma Walms- ley. evs 8 years, ----Stanley Holl- man, Floyd Sutton, Bobbie Val- ier. Girls 9 years.--Joyce Powell, Dorothy Ross, Margaret Fleming. Boys 9 years.--Herbert Kear- ney, Jackie Sanders, Bruce Fer- guson. Girls 10, 11, 12 years.--Mar- garet Sugden, Joyce Smith, Vivi- ¢nune Hern, Boys 10 11, 12 years.--Clifford Rodgers, Wesley Walmsley, Ray- mond Grills. Girls over 12 years.Ruth Too- ley, Irene Fleming, Isobel Cooke. Boys over 12 years.--Ross wa- wards, Garnett Goyne, Ross Win- ter Girls over 14 years.--Cather- ine Lander, Bertha Huff. Boys over 14 years. ---- Earl Wakely, George Barlow, Warren Peters. Boys Wheelbarrow Relay. -- Cletus Dyer and Raymond Grills, Earl Wakely and Ross Edwards, Clifford Rodgers and Gerald Wal- usley. Girls under 12, three-legged Race.--Gladys Sugden and Con- stance Peters, Audrey Terrwille- gar and Merla Prest, Joyce Pow- ell and Orma Walmsley. Girls over 12 years, Three-leg- ged Race.--Isobel Cooke and Do- ris Dart, Catherine Lander and Ruth Tooley, Bertha Huff and Irene Fleming. Boys 12 and 13 years, Five- potato Race. -- Ross Edwards, Bar! Wakely, Garnett Goyne, Field Events High Jump, Boys 13 and over. --- kely, Gerald Walmsley, | Earl Wakely | cher of dramatic art, Oshawa. The Ross Winter, High Jump, Boys under 13 Cletus Dyer, Ross Edwards, Gar- nett Goyne, Running Broad Jump, Boys 13 and over.---Earl Wakely, Warren Peters, Carlson Fletcher. Standing Broad Jump, under 13.--Cletus Dyer, Edwards, Warren Peters, Girls Soft Ball Throwing. -- Cetherine Lander, Bertha Huff, Roth Tooley. Prizes were then given by the Heme and School Club. Also a treat to every girl and boy on the grounds was given by the Club. Boys Ross Horror-stricken passenger (as bus gets out of control): "Hea- vens! I hope we don't hit any- thing" Driver: "I do! The road ends at a cliff further along!" ferent, prices. Stylish Stouts All shades, velvets, crepes or satin, and the chi¢ sixteen. Something very dit- reasonable Only a few Dresses left at 3395 J Mp epa= = £5 | 15 King St. E. COLUMBUS NEWS (Mrs. T. Cook, Correspondent) Mrs. John Stone, spent Satur- day in Toronto. Mr. R, A. Murison, Pickering, spent Sunday at home, Quite a number from here at- tended Lindsay fair, on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wickett, Teronto, spent Sunday at John Stones'. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Paul, To- ronto, visited with her sister, Mrs. Jas. Ashton, The community was shocked on Tuesday morning, to hear of the sudden passing of Mrs. -Garfat, who passed away soon after breakfast, while sitting in 'her rocking chair. Mrs. Garfat had not been well for some time, but was always up and around. She was in her 92nd year. Much svmpathy is extended to Mrs. A Brown and family, in the loss of ber mother, Mrs, Garfat. Mrs. Wm, Caslick Bright, visi- ted at Mr. Wm. Dyer"s Mr. Beall, Whitby, Mr. Wm. Vay, Barrie, called on friends in the vilage last week. Mr, and Mrs. John Hislop and daughter Jean, and Mr, and Mrs. Jce Thompson, Brookln, motor- ed to Seaford, visiting with rela- tives for a few days, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Staples, Wel- come, visited with Mrs. Joe, Hol- man recently, Mrs. L. Guy, was in Toronto on Tuesday attending the funer- al of a friend, Mr. and Mrs, L. T, Cook and children, visited the latters sis- ter, Mr. and Mrs. C. Laycuck, In Toronto on Sunday. from. Mr, T. Pereman East, op- posite Mrs, H. 1. Pascoe, and has started to build. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gilroy and civldren, spent Sunday in Torom- to with friends, Mrs. Robert Sutherland, spent a few days with Mrs. John Suth- orland, at Ut} a. Mr. and Yrs. Fred Wiison, Oshawa, and Miss E, Wilson, To- tonto, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wil- #on, visited at Newmarket, on Sunday. Rally Day Service The Rally Day Services were held at the United Church and were well attended, theré being a eplendid program, On Tuesday, wes held at Pickering. Cooper; Mrs. J. Misses E. Law- were: Mrs. Dr. Lambert, and rence; Margaret Mary Carr. Harvest Thanksgiving On Sunday Oct, 11th, Harvest Home and Thanksgiving services will be held at the United Church, The Rev. W. P. Rogers, B.A., of Noweastle, will be the preacher of the day. Services will be at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. On Friday, {| supper will be held. Oct 16th, the annual chicken A very fine program will be given, under the direction of Mrs. A. W. Bell, tea- features of the program, will be | rommunity singing, selections by Far) Harris' Happy Hurons, with a 6 piece orchestra, character songs in costume, as well as itéms by Alf, Henning and others. The General Motors Quartette of Osh- awa, will also contribute, while the elocutionists of the evening wil! be: Clara Belle Hare of New- castle and Helen Forester, of Bowmanville, both pupils of Mrs. Bell. Everybody keep that date open, supper and program will be only fifty cents. SUGRESTS "AXE" FOR CIVIL SERVICE London.--A letter to the Daily Telegraph suggesting that the axe might be profitably used in super- fluous departments cites the office of Under-Secretary of State for War as an example of how Bu- reaucracy has become intrenched in Britain since the war. The writer says:--*All superfluous departments such as the Ministry of Pensions and Permanent Un- der-Secretary of State for War could with advantage be 'axed' without loss of efficiency. The former costs the country $7,500,- 000 yearly in salaries and the lat- ter about $2,600,000. As showing how absolutely un- necessary offices can grow, that of the Under-Secretary of State, for War is unique. The appointment was made as a reward to on Aron Service Corps officer for his serv- ices during the South Afrean War, the salary beng $2.00 per annum: the present hoider, now called Permanent Under-Secretar, of State, gets $15,000 and a sta of four assistant under-secretar- les, three secretaries, one deputy, nine assistant secretaries, 18 prin. cipals, nine assistant principals, two chief accountants, two de- countants, eté, His Immediate predecessor, who retired in 1920, after the reconstruction of the Army was compléted, drew only $10,000 per annum. Surely there can be no excuse for such sense: less waste of public money! "It must require a tremendous degree of vacation boredom to drive one to miniature golf." -- Hamilton Fyfe. 1 GOT AN IDEA THEY'RE BOTH AT LETS SNEAK BUY A HANDFUL ) OF SMOKES AND [ OVER ON 'EM IN AND/ THATLL BE PUTTING ON "SOME SHAVING CREAM, on, / ) | Genoa,--The largest artifice] lake in Europe, five miles long, nearly two miles wide and some 260 feet in depth is about to be constructed in the Borbera valley of the Appenines, about 25 miles from Genoa. The construction will serve a double purpose, having both com- mercial and military advantages. The War Ministry has urged its construction, for it is considered that, apart from its chief use as a reservoir for the creation of hy- dro-eleciric power, the basin will make a most useful base for mill- tary and naval seaplanes, It will be comparatively easy to protect it owing to its position" in the Appenines amid mountains, The valley where the lake will be con- structed is in an isolated position, and therefore provides a safer base for seaplanes than near a populated center, Three villages and a couple of Italy Planning Construction = Of Lake in the Appenines hamlets with a total population of over 2,000 will have to be eva- cuated for the constructin. It is hoped to begin work this winter, The energy available from the two falls which will be built at ong'end of the basin will amount to 29,000 horsepower each. In addition, the outflowing water will be used for irrigation purposes and another 7,000 horse- power of electrical energy will be available from the varjous falls that will convey the water down to the plains for irrigation. The presence of a powerful hy- dro-electrical station in this re- gion of Italy has a military pur- pose because it is considered that | the Alpine power stations from which most of the current for the electrified systems of North Italy is derived are more likely to suf- fer interruption in case of war than plants in the center of the country, PLAN TO PROVIDE GOOD FISHING IN VANCOUVER PARK Association Places Supply of Rainbow Trout In Stanley Park Mr. H. Searle has bought a lot | the sectional rally of the W.M.S. | Those | from this society who attended | Dearborn, and | Vancouver, B.C. -- Anglers will soon be able to catch fighting rain- bow trout within a few blocks of the centre of this city as a result of plans worked out by the Stanley Park Fly Fishing Association in co- operation with the Parks Board, A. O. Sankey, sccretary of the association, says that results of an experimental introduction of rain- goon have exceeded expectations by about 1,000 percent. Two years ago the association placed the first ship- ment of trout in the lagoon, which is at the edze of Stanley Park, the city's chiet playground. Util a few days ago there had been no test of {how the trout had fared, but two | anglers soon obtained the desired | evidence, One raised thirty trout | within an hour, The other hooked | twenty, "ihe largest of the fish weighed and three-quarter pounds," said { Mr. Sankey. "The Biological Board exanuned them and found they were in splendid condition, They were silvery, hard, and fought well, Opened, they were found to be fill- ed with countless insects, showing that the feeding is good. Two of them had caten stickleback, a small fish found in the Lagoon, "We have also found out," con- tinued Mr, Sankey, "that the veget- ation brought from Kamloops and placed in the bed of the Legoon is doing well. This is the same in which the famous Kamloops rain- bow trout feed, and it does not grow high enough to interfere with casting." Lost Legoon is fed daily with a- bout 100,000 gallons of pure' Capil- ano water, which 15 "blown off" from the city mains. "blow-off" webt into Beaver Lake, in the heart of Stanley Park. The Stanley Park Fly Fishing Association maintains tanks in Beaver Lake fon | erlings there in preparation for re- leasing into the Legoon. Mr. Sankey declares that when to participate. arranged by the Parks Board. He declares that the water is not the having been absolutely stopped by the Parks Board engineers. JUSTICE RANEY VOICES CRITICISM (Continued from page 1) the verdict they had brought in as admittedly they had had 2 hard task. The Crown had also had a hard task to cstablish their case, which had been rendered more dif- ficult due to the mess made of the conviction in the police court in Oshawa. At- which time the accu- sed was alleged to have been comi- mitted to jail for a month without evidence being given by his wife nor had the weapon alleged to have been uged produced in court. His Lordship had previously ordered the jury to disregard the conviction on a charge of doing bodily harm. Justice Raney went on to say that he hoped that the prisoner had thought over his conduct while he was in custody and had decided to become a good' citizen, Trick was warned that Tre must not molest his wife in future and if he failed in this the court would see that he was given the maximum penalty. Civil Case Proceeding Further progress was made yes- terday afternoon by His Lordship Justice Raney and jury in the suit brought by Mrs. Gertrude Arnold of R.R. No. 4, Oshawa, who with her husband are asking damages irom the Oshawa Railway and the Smith Transport Co. for injuries received and out-of-pocket expenses incurred as the result of a collision between a stareet car and a truck on Simcoe Street South near Maple Street on the evening of April: 7, 1930. The plaintiff in the action claim that the truck was not driv- en in a safe and sane manner and as a result the car struck it, while it is"also claimed that the motor man of the car did not exercise sufficient care in the operation of his car, ' With the decision in the criminal action resting 'with «the jury, His proceed with the case, but it was found that four of the jurors who had been selected for the panel had Formerly the | Lordship intimated that he would bow trout to the water of Lost La- | 1 | | for fry, and always | has between 50,000 and 60,000 fing- | | fishing is permissable in Lost La- | goon, the general public will be able | The terms will bel | | least brackish, seepage from the sea | OF POLICE COURT also been selected for the Trick case and had retired, So in order to proceed with the case four new men were called and the evidence already taken was read to them by Mr. Henderson, clerk, This re- quired quite some time, so that very little progress was made before the adjournament. Thief Robs Choir Kingston. -- A sneak thief en- tered the choir room of St. James' Church on Sunday morning, dur- ing the service, and secured the sum of $15. Two purses belong- iug to members of the choir were looted, the sum of $10 being se- cured from one purse and $5 from the other. Nothing else was disturbed in the purses. The matter was reported to Detective William Fitzgerald, Misses Derry and Bedell were the victims of the work of the sneak thief. Fhe birth-control problem isnt' as much trouble as controlling those already horn. ST JAMES 109-13 WEST 45th STREET NEW YORK In the heart of Times Severe Three te Five Minutes to All The WEL ED BY TRAVELING WITHOUT tsar ooms with hot and water. adjacent te pel" Single 82.00 . 92.25 . 92.50 Double 3.00 . 93.50 . 34.00 Rooms Single o230 a hrivats bath ouble $4.00 . $4.50. $5.00 SEND FOR BOOKLET Ww. JOHNSON QUINN President and Manager GOSSARD ~~ SH SLENDER ; FASHIONABLES...lwho do not have to worry about diaphragm bulges) often pre- fer a separate girdle and brassiere for freedom's sake. The 16-inch Gossard hook- around, sketched, is of pink brocade with twin sections of elastic over each hip. It extends above the waistline to give the new "cinched - in" effect. Béned. The brassiere is of ecru lace and net. W.A. Dewland Limited ° Oshawa « Ontario THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Giles Chittenham sets out to make Julie Parrow love him, in- tending to throw l.cr over in re- venge for the suicide of his brother Rodney, whom Julie had cast off, He succeeds, but finds that he has fallen cesperatery in love with her himself, Then he discovers that it was not this Julie Farrow, but her cousin of the same name, who had driven his brother to death. But Giles is married, to an American girl named Sadie Barrow, with whom he has not lived for a long time. Sadie unexpectedly turns up in London, at a party at Giles' mother's house, but both keep silent about thelr marriage. Jule, disillusioned, enters into the wild night life of London to try to drown her anguish. Law- rence Schofield wants to marry her, Lombard, who had first in- o trduced her to Chittenham, ge- mands money from Giles with the threat that if he is not paid he will tell Schofield that Chit tenham and Julie spent the night together on the St. Bern- ard Pass. Later Julle confesses to Chittenham that she loves him. At a spiritualist seance at Giles' mother's house Sadie Bar- row, his wife, suddenly goes blind. She calls to him and he responds, revealing the fact that she is his wife. Julie, who has sent Schofield away because of her love for Chittenham, goes home in despair. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Julie moved with difficulty. She was cold and aching in every limb. She slipped off her wet clothes and put on a warm dressing-gown, her hands were shaking with cold. She was pouring the water from the kettle when a knock came on the front door--a heavy knock that sounded both urgent and insistent. Bim, perhaps! Julie put the kettle down and flew across the little hall, Bim, dear Bim, Julie fell as if al- ready half her troubles were lifted from her as she drew back the latch --then she gave a little choking cry. "You--!" "Yes--you must let me come in, Julle," Chittenham said, and without a word Julie stood aside. She was conscious instantly of something dif- ferent--strange about him---some- thing that killed both the mingled hope and anger that struggled for supremacy in her heart, She felt that If she went to his arms she would be repulsed--that if she show- ed him bitter scorn it would leave him unmeoved--that nothing could touch him. "I had to come--I'm sorry if you are angry with me--but I had to come--just to say good-bye--" He turned and half raised his head, looking at Julie. Then sud- denly his face changed --it was as if the strangeness were wiped out of 1L in a single flash, giving place to such a look of unutterable pain that Julle caught her breath In an in- voluntary cry. "To say good-bye--?" "Yes'--he took a quick step to- wards her and then stopped-- "Sadie is blind," he said. Julie stared at him, her eyes blank, her lips parted; then after a long moment: What do you mean?" she whispered. Chittenham made a little impa- tient gesture. "Just that--what I have said, she is blind--apparently she nas felt it coming and been dreading it for months, That is why she came from America without telling me--she went to see some German specialist --1I don't know yet what Le told her, she was too ill and frightened to be very coherent. And then this fel- low Chryer on top of it all--you heard what he said about some one in the room never seeing the sun- shine again. Didn't he speak of blindness--darkness--God knows what! The fellow should be locked up. Sadie took it to herself, of course, and the sudden shock fin- ished it; perhaps it would have hap- pened anyway, the dcctor thinks so, but even he cannot teil, he says she may temporarily recover her sight-- if she doesn't--" He stopped abruptly, and--Julie sald in a shaking voice: : ow awful! How perfectly awe ul." Bo it was. She felt shocked, stun- ned and yet it was quite impartially, every other emotion was clouded over, stifled by those first words Juieh Chittenham had spoken to er. h "I had to come, just to say good- ye." What had he meant by that? 'Good-bye! How could they ever say good-bye after last night? He had said then that they would never part again, - Chittenham went on: "I was sure you would understand what a difference it makes, I was sure you would try to help me, Julie --dear! You see, she hasn't any one but me, you see, there are some things it's impossible for a man to do when a woman's ill--and fright ened--I couldn't leave her, how could I? You see--you wouldn't wish it, would you? It would be Hke--like trampling .a woman down to reach our happiness, a blind woman, too, so defenceless--I--I--" He broke down hopelessly. What could he say. What excuse or ex- planation could he offer that would sound plausible or justified? He tried to take her hand, but she drew it sharply. away. She felt that she could bear anything, be brave over everything, if only he would not touch her. He was right in what he sald. Of course he was right. Sadie was his wife, and his place was to stand by her. No man could do less, she herself would despise him if he did less, and yet--behind everything a panic-stricken cry was trying to make itself hedrd in her heart: "What about mer What about me?" Then, as if in ansver to the un- spoken cry, Chittenham was beside her--so close to her that for a wild moment she thought he must be going to take her in his arms, and her heart almost stood still and then went racing on again so violently that it seemed to be choking her. And she looked up desperately, meeting his eyes fixed upon her with "I shall see you tomorrow' Still no answer, and after a mo- ment he went out into the little hall and opend the front door. He was s0 sure she would call to him, perhaps run afier him. He was 80 sure that in a momen? she would be in his arms, her against his--he counted the seconds feverishly by his heart-beats, lips crushed But Julie did not move, and she gave no sign, Chittenham looked bach "Julie!" He waited a moment, but the sil- ence remained unbroken, and he went out of the flat, shutting the door behind him, | [) "Julie." He caught her hands in his. "Forgive me, Julie, Say you lorgive me, that you don't hate me, that you understand." such a look of love and longing in them that it was more than she could bear. She put out her hands appealingly. "Go away, please go away," whispered. "Julie." He caught her hands in his "Forgive me, Julie. Say you forgive me, that you don't hate me, that you understand." "What do I want you to do? Why nothing. There is nothing we can do, we must just go on. I always knew it would be like this, even last night. Tlheie's nothing we can do I shall marry Lawrence Schofield, I suppose, if he will take me basi again--" "Julie--don't be cruel--" "I am not so cruel as you are. I never wanted you to come into my life. It was you who followed me." With a smothered sop sne turned to rush past him to the door, But Chit- tenham was too quick for her, he reached the door before she did, barring her way. "Let me go--lct me go." She beat at him with ioipotent hands, the tears raining down her face. "Oh, let me go, let me go--" "Not like this, Julie; v can't part like this--oh, my ¢- /- car child--" She was in his arms, ner face hid- den on his shoulder, his lips againse her hair, while he whispered over and over again how much he loved her how only she filled his heart. But what could he do? If only she would tell him what he could do? But Julie had no answer, ahd presently her bitter sobbing ceased, and she lay quietly in his arms, It was she who spoke first, after a long silence. "I'm sorry I cried, it was silly! And so useless, After all, it's no more than I expected--I always knew if I let myself care for any one it would be like this--" She drew away from kim. "I think you had better go before I make anoth- er scene for you to remember me by." She wiped her eyes and tried to smile. "It's all right--please go now--" She averted her eyes. "Please go now, and please never come back again." It was what Chittenham had wanted her to say, with all a man's dislike .of scenes and suffering, he had hoped that she would rciuse to listen to him and send him away, but now that she had done so, he knew it was not what he had want- ed, after all He had wanted her to keep him against his better judg- ment; he had clung to the belief that she would try to keep him from Sadie, for whom he had no feeling hut the merest pity--a pity that was not, and never could be, akin to love. With Julie sobbing in his arms it had seemed impossivle ever to let her go -he loved her : much--no woman hed'ever before tilrred his heart and his imagination--no woman ever would, If they never rot again it would be the same al- ways; she was his, they were made for each other, He thought of his wife as she had been when he left her an hour ago, frantic with fear, crying and sobbing: it made him shudder to remember ti.e way she had clung to him, Yeggirg nim no. to leave her, "After all, you're my husband, and I've got nobody else in the world. } know I haven'l been as ulce to you as I might have been. but don't leav: me now I'm blind, don't leave me, Gils. Oh, my God, what will be- come of me?" : sne The pathos of her was heart- breaking. Sadie, who had always been so independent, so tree, to be cil* ging to him like this, imploring him not to leave her, She was his! wife, he was pledged to her by hon-' or. And yet now that Julie had told: him to go---he broke out passionate- "flow can you uunk of marrying Schofield? What happiness would it be for you if you don't love him---" "I con't expect o be happy." Julle laughed shakenly. "Anyway, it can- pot matter to you sny ionger. Please go away and leave me." "Julie!" he said pleadingly. She said nothing. She hardly seemed to be listening, and he let It seemed to Julie that she stood for hours, leaning aga:nst the wall, her bedy so tired that it was too much effort even to move over tO the fire and a comfortable chalr, Her head ached miserably, With' a supreme effort she dragged herself across the room to the fire, It had burnt down, and she replenished it with shaking hands. She felt as if already a lifetime had passed since Chittenham came to the flat, and yet only a moment ago he had been there with her, so close that she had but to put out her hand to touch him, and now he had gone, back to Sadie, back to his wife! "I will never willingly see him again," Julie told herself passionate- ly. "He has deceived me twice. 1 will never forgive him as long as I live." She got up almost violently as though driver by the sudden reac- tion of thougnt. She would send at once to Scho- field. She would not lose a moment, She went to the 'phone and called his number, but it was only after a long time that the hotel people could give her any news of him. He was out at thc moment, they said, but he was cerfainly returning that night. There was a little pause--then; "Mr. Schofield is leaving London early to-morrow moniing." "Leaving--" Julie felt as if her last anchor had been torn from her--the waves of misery and utter loneliness seem= ed to beat up afresh all round her. The voice at the other end of the 'phone asked palitely if & message could be taken. "No=oh, no, thank you." Julie hung up the receiver and turned away. Lawrence was leaving London, leaving her!--she was seized with exaggerated panic. What was to become of her? Even Bim was weary of her, there was. no place for her in the world. But Law=- rence had loved her, must surely still love her. She remembered the de- spair in his eyes when she told him she would not marry him. If she could only see him for a moment she was confident that ev- erything would 'be all right--to see him, just to see him! She felt like a child left alone in the dark, straining every nerve to get to the one person who can take away dread and the desolate sense of loneliness, She took off her loose gown and dressed again with shaking fingers, she was still very cold, but her face and head felt burning. She would put herself beyond Chittenham's reach, to-morrow when he came he should find it too late. If Lawrence would take her away to-night she would go with him, She was tired of hoping for things that never came true, afrald of a love that brought with it only pain, She went out into the wet, chilly night and took a taxi. She drove straight to the hotel where Lawrence was staying. No, he was not in yet, and they could not say at what hour he would be returning. It was past nine then. i "I'll wait a little while and see if Mr. Schofield returns," Julie said. 'The minute ticked away, and lat- er she supposed that she must have fallen into a stupor, out of which she was roused with a start to the sound of a chiming clock. Julie walked across to the porter, "I cannot wait any longer, I will l2ave a note for Mr. Schofield." (To be continued tomorrow) Father criticized the sermon, mother disliked the blunders of the organist, and the eldest daughter thought the choir's sing- ing atrocious. The subject had to be dropped when the small boy of the family, with the school-boy's love of fair play, chipped in with remark, "Dad, I think it was a jolly good show for a penny." A man went to see his physi- clan for advice as to how to be cured of the habit of snoring. . 'Does - your snoring disturb your wife?" asked the doctor. "Does it disturb my 'wite?" ochoed the patient. "Why, it dis- turbs the whole congregation!" Se -- ----

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