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nounces his idle life and turns for help and sympathy to bis 'MILDRED, who has their Joliohas property tied up for f. But she falls him ut- torly 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 dead in a chair, with a million in negotiable securities in his possession. 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 been no record of the fortune he was carrying, and Harvey's theft Is undiscovered. A new phase is put on the situation, howaver, with the appearance of the dead man's granddaughter, GRACE SWAYLE, who had an engagement to meet her grandfather and was expecting him to have an inheritance ready 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 fuld & business trip to Amerfes, and tinds her on shipboard virtual- iy forcing herself on nim es his secretary. Although guarding himself against any slip which may reveal his sec- ret, he finds the situation not ugpleasant, as she draws bim to tell her of his own life. Now Go On With the ftory "Where are my clothes, An- drews?" Harvey inquired of bis man When he had finished reading his wite's letter. "All packed and ready, sir," the men replied, 'There are seven trunks altogether. Lady Cranle, "allowed me ong of the rooms t store them in, The polo kit, gun cases and golf clubs are all togetn- or, too." Harvey reflected for a moment, ' *igoven trunks-' he murmured. #7 can pack all that you need for "a tortnight or #0 in town," Andrews "proposed, "in two trunks snd a dressing case." "That's what you'd better do hen," Harvey acquiesced, $i "3 forgive my mentioning it, you won't be Wishing to gel of me for the moment, then? "Certainly not," was the empha- tie reply, "I am perfectly satistied with you Andrews." "1 am exceedingly glad to hear it, sir. I will arrange for the storage of the heavy luggage during the afternoon and I will have your clothes ready to change about half- ast 7." Harvey nodded and took his {eave, drove to his club, engaged a room, and telephoned to the city, He asked for Greatorex, Who was at the phone almost at once. "Well, Greatorex, I am safely. Everything all right?" "Pyerything is more than all right, sir," was the cheerful re- sponse. "Our staff are working now in two shitts--till 1 Oc'clock at alght, and we have had to make special arrangements with the rail way companies." ; "And the foreign reports?" "Perfectly satisfactory, sir, Stocks 'were smaller than ever yes- lerday. People who have been holding off buying are all rushing at it now." "No message from the bank?" "Nothing special, sir, Mr, Poul ton said he would like to see you as soon as you get back." "How do the figures stand?" "I am sorry, sir, but I couldn't undertake to say exactly," Greats orex regreted. "I will go into it by this afternoon." "The McDermot am) has pleased all our people, I hope?' ; "1 should say so, sir, inded, Al Bermondsey's talking about that.' "Good! I'll be down at 3 o'- clock, Greatorex." "We'll all be glad to see YOU, sir." . Harvey rang off and made his way {nto the smoking roem. There were one or two of his old cronies about who welcomed him with the ustal British indifference. There was a brie interchang~ of gossip. Harvey presently left the room, hesitated for a moment or 'two in the hall and finally, taking up his hat and stick, sent for a taxi and was driven to the Savoy. The first person whom he saw in the lounge, looking distinctly bored and rather forlorn, was Grace. She rose to her feet with a little ex- clamation of pleasure as ghe recog: aiged him, Her whole appearance seemed suddenly transformed, Her eyes were shining. She came to- ward him eagerly. "Why, dear friend," she eried, "what has happened? It is wonder ful to gee you so soon." : He held her hands for a moment. We understood now why he had read Mildred's letter with a curious sense of relief--a sense of relief which triumphed even over his an- gor--wi; he had turned his back upon hig dismantled house almest light-heartedly. "My wite has decided to go abroad for a time," he confided, "gud I am a homeless wanderer. Under those circumstances. I thought perhaps that we might lunch together™ "How delightful!™ she extlaim- back By E. od. "I was Just fesling so bored, I didn't care to go into the restaur- ant alone, 60 1 was going out some- where. Would you prefer me to change my clothes, or shall T do like this?" "Don't change a thing," he beg- d. "We'll go into the grill rom, Pc thing I came along, I know the sort of luncheon you were going to have--puns or a sticky ome- ette. "Quite right!" she laughed, have been that I am really very Buagty, May we have cantaloupe snd chicken Maryland instead?" "You shall order, dear," he promised recklessly. A bowing maitre d'botel escolk- od them to their table. They ord- ered luncheon and afterward she leaned a little nearer to him, Her eyes sought his wistfully. "Is it horrid of me to be so glad?" she whispered, 'Perhaps you are disappointed that your wife has gone away, ' It could mot have been pleasant for you to find an empty house." eH 1sughed with sardonic mirth, which had still a note of reality in it, ' "You can't imagine how empty it was," he confided, "or how glad Iam!" That afternoon at half-past 3 Harvey was ushered with ceremony and alacrity into the manager's of- tice of the Bermopdsey Branch of meén in linen dusters were moving hurried about amongst the por. ters and both lifts were working at high pressure. Harvey mounted slowly to the first floor, where the same scenes of activity prevailed, and, entering his office, was sud- denly conscious of a little wave of pleasure. Grace was already there seated at a small desk close to his own and bending over a typewrit- er. "Why, 1 searcely expected you this afternoon," he exclaimed, the Southern Bank. = This time there was no doubt yhatever as to the nature of his reception. Mr. Poulton kept closely in touch with the conditions of the business in which most of his clients were én- gaged and his opinion of his visitor had changed to a very marked ex- tent since the latter's previous vis- it. Glad to see you back again, Mr. Garrard," he declared, shaking his nand warmly and wheeling up the easychair, "I hear wonderful things about your doings--stolen a march upon some of the cleverest of! your competitors, they say." "I don't know about that," Har- vey replied. "I brought off the deal I went over to arrange. "Have you any idea, if it Iz not an indiscreet question, what you have made during the last month?" the bank manager asked. "I should say that when we have delivered the goods we have on or- der," Harvey replied coolly, "about a million, Then, of course, the stocks, instead of being 20 pe: cent overvalued, is now vi: y'largely in- creased in value, /nart from this, the further developments of the McDermot husiness should bring us in at least another couple of hund- red thousand pounds," . "Asmazing!" "Amazing it certainly is," Har. vey agreed. "I'm not pretending that we haven't had marvelous Juck, but I certainly never imagined that business could be so facinating to a mere novice as I have found it." "And the future?" "Well, the next thing we have to do is to put ourselves into a sound position for the time when the fall comes. We are taking steps at once to prepare for that." » "You anticipate a drop in prices, then?" "I tfink that we have reached the top or very nearly the top. There has been no change for for- ty-aight hours, and you know as well as I do that prices seldom re- main stationary for long. If they can't go any higher, they must fall, From today on, although that is a profound secret, we have closed down our purchases. When I tell you that our stock is still ten times larger than the normal amount. you can see that we can afford to do go, Our attitude toward the trade is, that we can find no more mat- erial to bury and what we have we are distributing apiongst our clients all over England, Whenever the slump comes, We are going to ant!- cipate it, We are going to sell fas- ter than prices can drop, Our sales yesterday, T noticed, amounted to nearly fifty thousand pounds. Our purchase account 1s closed." "You will forgive my remark. Mr. Garrard" the manager observed "that you remind me very much of your father in his younger days. He was the most sagacious and broad: minded business man I ever met, never afraid to tackle the biggest deal that could be suggested ta him, put somehow or other always dis counting his risk." 'Well, there we are, anyhow," Harvey remarked, arrived at last at the purpose of his visit. "I pre. sume you find our account now in quite satisfactory shape, Mr. Poul- ton?" ; "Absolutely." : . "With reference to the American Treasury Bopds I deposited with you, it you have no abjection I shepld like now to withdraw these." "Certainly," the manager assent ed. "I should think there would be no difficulty about that at all, That matter shall be brought forward at our next board meeting." "Can't I have them at once?" Harvey persisted. "I ghould lke to take them away with me now." The manager smiled. Copright by Sinope "And the pathos of it all would |Z "I'm afraid you can't do that," yogrotted. "In the first place, os are in the vaults at our head office, and furthermore they could only be. parted with after the mat. ter has come up before a meeting of the board, I'll put your request through to headquarters, though, Harvey rose to his feet. "Please arrange this matter as quickly as possible for me," he begged. "The losn of the bonds to me was only a temporary affair and be glad to return them," "1 will do every thing posible to expedite the matter," Mr, Poulton promised, The two men shook hands and the manager escorted his valued client to the outside door, Harvey stepped into his car and made his way back to the warehouse where something like pandemonium still appeared to reign. There were a dozen drays in the yard behind the warehouse when Harvey Garrard arrived, 'Every nen of the vast floor space seemed covered with bales and cases, young "I thought I should like to come, after all" she said, smiling up at him, "Your very nice Mr. Great- orex has been up here talking to me, He tells me that there are over a hundred letters which cannot be dealt with until they have referred to. you so I think that I shall be needed." He hung up his pat and advanced toward his chair, slowly dragging off his gloves. There were certain obvious attraction about Grace-- the flawless ivory tint of her checks, the natural but vivid red of her lips, her deop-set eyes with their changing lights which no, pos- sible art could conceal. It was clear, however, that she was doing her best to live 'up to her secretar- {al position, Her hair was brushed uncompromisingly away from her forehead and she had changad the smartly eut traveling dres: she had worn at lunchéon fer a plain blaek one, "You approve?" she asked, with a wrinkled forehead. "I hope wo. 1 want to lok just like your secre- tary bLocause you know 'I am here really to work, You know now that wy shorthand is reliable, You must give me all your letters, and I will type them in another office where the noise will not disturb you." at seems sensible," he admit. ted. "I do want to be a real help to vou," she went on quietly. 'While I am here I just want to be your very useful secretary, I want to work hard; to take an: interest in what IT do, and to earn my salary, When we leave here and my day's work is over, it is a difefrent mat. ter, Then I can be to you just what you will." Her voice had dropped and a Jit- tle thrill crept through him at the questioning light in her eyes. '"You are very sensiple," he said, trying to speak in a matter-of-fact tone, "Our relations here, then, are established, I am the kindly employer. You are the industrious and ambitious secretary. To begin with I must ring for Greatorex. He can give me a digest of some 0? this correspondence without my going through every letter." A rejuvenated Greatorex present. ly made his appearance. He accept ed a chair and for an hour or so he and Harvey were engaged In earnest consultation, At the end of that time he disappeared with a portion of the correspondence and Harvey, turning toward Grace, be- gan to dictate replies to the remain. der, He continued for some time without a pause. "Those are the most important ones," he announced, "Now we will arrange an office for you." He rang a bell and gave orders to a clerk who carried away the typewriter. Grace followed him, leaving the office without a back- ward glance, demure and business. like. As soon as he was alone aHr- found some pribate note paper, and, leaning back in his chalr,once more read through his wife's let. ter, A sudden idea seized him. He phoned down to the clerk's of- tice. "Have some one ring up the of- tice of Mr, Herbert Fardale, the banker, in Old Broad street," he directed, *I wish to know whether he is in town and can be seen." The answer came five minutes later that Mr, Fardale was on the Continent and would be away for some weeks. "Ask for his address," Harvey enjoined. There was another paude, 'then the reply that Mr. Fardale's part- ner would be 'glad to speak to the THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1929 Deen, he was griavously mistaken, both as to my position and inten- tions, It is true that on my return from thé Riviera I found the busi- ness here in an exceedingly parious state, but I am making a great ef- fort to re-establisp It, and I have every reason to believe that I am succeeding. Let me assure you that I am not in the habit of telling falsehoods, as you should know, and nothing was farther from my thoughts when, I left England, than' to play the part of absconding bankrupt, ] ' J As regards your financial posi- tion, I must admit that it does not seem to me so pitful as it apparent. ly does to you. You have your in- come of two thousand a year which I made over to you at marriage. You have thirty thousand pounds, which I understand you have receiv ed for the sale of the house I gave you, and the furniture, which, it sagaciously invested--and I have no doubt that you have excellent advice--should bring yeu in anoth- er fifteen hundred a year. I ecan- not offer for the moment to fn- crease this sum, but if I am success- ful in 'my present operations on be-: half of the firm, I will consider the matter further. I am bound to say, however, Mil- dred, that I consider your action in selling the house in my abeence, and thereby turning me out of a home, selling, too the furniture of my own personal treasurers and be-| jongings, to which you bad no claim! at all, an {ll-advised an dexcecding- ly selfish action. You have clearly shown that you have no desires to help me either by your sympathy or in any other way during this unex- pected crisis with which I bave peen confronted. Your action has naturally caused me to review more carefully the nature of our rela- tions, and you will no doubt agree with me when I say that these, for the last few years, have been ex- ceedingly unsatisfactory. You ap- pear to have lost any affection you might have had for me and in view of your present behavior I cannot pretend that I still retain the feel- ing which I suppose we once upon a time both more or less shared. I do not know whether you wish to take steps to make our separation final. If go, I shall be glad tc hear from you what you suggest. It, however, you wish to continue liv- ing under the shelter of my name 1 must remind you that I have right to some boice as regards your choice of {riends and residence. I will not say more until I hear from you again, HARVEY, He blotted and sealed this letter and sat for a few moments in deep thought, He was scarcely satisfied that he had been entirely honest, that he had said all that it was his duty to say, He knew perfectly well in his own mind that the one thing he desired wag his freedom, He had given Mildred no hint of this or of the real cause of his own changed feelings. After all, though it he hed told her frankly of tbe other interest which had come in- to his life, she would most certain- ly have heard of it with indiffer- ence, He had grown to discover her during these last few years as a wo- man without temperament, capac ity for affection or desire for it, a woman immersed in the meretric- fous things of life and inspired by' an innate and compelling selfish- ness. If he had asked her to set him free, her first impulse would have been to have. made her con- sent the basis for a bargain, The telephone bell rang, 1t was Mr, Poulton, speaking from the bank. "I have been in communicstion with headquarters, Mr, Garrard, with reference to the bonds," he sald, "I do not imagine that there will be any difficulty about the matter, but it will come up for dis- cussion on Tuesday week." "Why Tuesday week?' Harvey queried irritably. "My friend wants his securities back. Surely the pos- ition of my account justifjes me in asking for them?" "Certainly it does, Mr, Garrard," was the concilatory reply," but these things can scarcely he agang- ed in a minute. However, I'll see that the matter is pushed forwhrd as fast as possible," } "The bonds are surely--" Harvey stopped short, conscious of the soft opening of the door, He knew very well who it was upon the threshold, "Very well," he concluded abruptly. 'Don't let the matter be delayed beyond Tuesday week, however." He replaced the reciver and rang off. For a moment he found it difficult te rajse his head and face the advancing tigure. She came in, closing the door behind her, and laid a little shea? of letters before him, He took up his pen and for the first time looked at her, Her face was quite expressionless, She stood by his side, waiting, He drew a little breath of relief and began his task, ! inquirer. Harvey took up the tele- phone and exchanged a few curt amenities, } "I am axioys to get Inte touch; with Mr, Fardale," he announced. "Can you give me his address abroad?" i "I am sorry to say thdt I can- not," was the apologetic reply, "Mr. Fardale has gone back fo the South! of France, but no correspondence is forwarded and all matters of busis| nesg are dealt with here." ! "Thank you, I quite under- stand." Harvey answered, and rang off. ¥ | He dipped his pen in the ink and drew the paper toward him, For a long time he could get no farther than "My Dear Mildred." The difti- culties of his task seemed sudden- ly to have Increased. At last he began, and once started he wrote fluently: My Dear Mildred, { T need scarcely say that your let- ter handed to me by Andrews on my return was a severe shock. Who- ever your informant. may have ZION PERSONALS Zion, Sept, 28,~Mr, Chant and family have moved to Toronto and they will be very much missed in this community, Misses May and Dora Ball played a plano duet at a Chosen Friends' social night in Oshawa this week. They were heartily applauded. Special Sunday services will be held in Zion church Oct. 6th, at 2.30 and 7.30 o'clock when Rev. W, W. Jones of Millbrook will speak, In the afterngon the local choir will 'furnish music {nd in tl: evening the ladies of Ebenezer will furnish the music, Special collection. Our homes will be open to all visitors for fea whether previously invited or not, y 'Mrs. Reford. Cameron and Miss Kathleen are visiting her sister, Mrs, Arnold Vemner of Markham. Silo Alling has started in this neigh. borhood, Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Wilbur were Sunday visitors with Orono friends. | STOMACH PAINS? Get rid of them Perman- ently with "Fruit-a-tives." MISSING AIRMEN HAD DIFFICULTY WHEN TAKING OFF Last Man to See Explorers Reports Machines Seemed * Overloaded Toronto, Sept. 30.--First re- ports from the aviators combing the Arctic for the missing McAl- pine party tell of failure, While the fliers engaged in his. tory's greatest aerial search were radioing the words 'no trace" last evening after their initial rescue hops, the last man to see Col, C. D. H, MacAlpine and his seven companions before they disappear- ed, revealed that the two planes of the {ill-fated exploration party ap- peared overloaded and were beset by bad weather on their last known flight, Just three weeks ago yesterday, Sydney C, Cusack, radio expert of Northern Aerial Minerals Ex- ploration, stood on the edge of Baker lake in northern Manitoba and watched the two Dominion Explorers' planes soar northward on the air voyage from which they have not returned, "The planes seemed overloaded and the weather was bad," said Cusack, himself an Aretie veteran. "The next day snow squalls blew down from the northwest, And In that country, a compass is about as useful to a flier as a few tons of anchors." "Here's the last any living sou! knows about Colonel MacAlpine and the rest of them," the radio- man sald, turning the pages of a diary in which he recorded all the events of an 18;months' stay (no the north, 4 The entry, dated Sept, 8, read: "Dominion Explorers' planes making effort to lift biggest part of the day but secemed to be carry- ing too much weight, . Eventually get away at 5.45 p.m, for Bathurst inlet," Tried All Day to Take Off "They were jockeying up and down all day trring to get into the Born September 23, 1840, William Smith of Maples, Garafraxa town. ship, near Orangeville, cast his Zirst vote soon after Confederation, and he hopes to record another in a long series at the forthcoming tion, Though frail now, his faculties are unimpaired. alr," Cusack explained here last evening. "Both planes were very heavily loaded for they had a big Job to do, f "First one would get up and the other couldn't. Then the sec: ond one would make it and the first one couldn't, "At last they dumped some of their less essential supplies and both got away." THR Entries i Cuabic's oy for the three:dgysi alter the) ike planes hopped off from Baker lake tell something, pfithe 'weather at that time: ~( ;'¥ ¢ "Sept, 9--Dull, overcast, ,threat~ ening rain, Temperature about 40. "Sept. 10---~Snow squalls, with puffy wind, BE) ' "Sept. 11-----Stropg morthwester ly winds; weather Overcast, with snow squalls,' ' £74 "With those squalls, bad visibil ity and low ceiling," Cusack com- mented, 'they ran into plenty of trouble, Pilots Knew Country "Both pilots know that country thoroughly, they're. good Arvetic men ds well as good fliers.' They wouldn't have gone up' if they hadn't been confident of wetting through, 1 talked with Colonel MacAlpine the day before 'the planes left," He was optimistic; or yather, he simply never doubted that they would get through: "But I've seen those' little lakes in the north freeze 'over in half a day. It's cold in' the "Arctic in September and MacAlpine and the boys might land all right and then be frozen im, If they had" skiis they could get off, but those planes have only pontoons." The Christian nations are those that have chuvéles 'tb stay away from on Sunday,~--The Locker-On. One reason why many persons do not go "higher is because they they are not on the level.--Chic- TOMICAGO GIRL 'BANDITS OUST: up Business Is Fast Progressing Chicago~Feminine invasion of the . | business world has progressed so far here that even hold-up men, the kind that do their work with pistols on dark corners, are being routed out of their profession revolvers wielding ladies, | What with a woman staging 8 hold-up almost every Sigwt for the past several weeks, and with four hold-ups engineered by pretty young women in the last 24 hours, it is get- ting extremely difficult for ® self- 'respecting hold-up man to keep his self respect, Heretofore hold-up men generally rided themselves upon the mascu- ine daring, the masculine hard boil- edness and the masculine' imagina. tion. Then a young woman casually flag- ged a kindly doctor for a"ride late one night and graciously relieved him of his watch and his money with the aid of a dainty pistol, A day or so later another pretty young woman, "a swell lookin blonde" witnesses called her, trippe into a drug store and tripped out again with the receipts, leaving the proprietor dumbfounded. Néxt there was whole series 'of hold-ups directed by feminine master minds, who told their masculine es- corts just what to say, just what pockets to feel in, and just how to depart unscathed. The whole thing apparently' non- plissed the bewhiskered, masked 'gentry who had had the concession to themselves for so 'many wyeats. They' suddenly went out of business, according to the police, and left the field to their feminine competitors except for a few scattered instances where the hold-up. men who 'partici- pated, probably didn't have any self- respect anyway. The final attack upon hold-up- men's wavering egotism came last night when police, looking for two pretty young women, ane a brunette and the other a blonde, who led their boy friends in four separate raids, slugged a hotel clerk, robbed two taxicab drivers and one candy. store, What's more, they did all- their work with so much hardboiledness, even to smashing a bottle over the hotel clerk's head when, he tried to remonstrate, that they escaped with- out a single clue for police to work upon, And that's better than most old- style masculine hold-ups ever were able to do. about two-thirds of their. time behind prison bars between arrests for perk- ing away the valuables of their vic- tims, i "They ' knew nothing . about fin- esse," said one police official. "And these women bandits do. Talk about ago Daily. News, your nonchalance, your savoir fajro, MALE. LEADERS! [Feminine Invasion of Hold: The fact 1s they spent |, 'Liberal candidate, your, graceful exits--these female stick-ups ' have them. They're so slick that I'm afraid we're going, fo have our own troubles catching. up with them, ' "There's one. side to it though that's a bit rosier. They seem tohave made most of our regular stick-up men $0 Slagusted with the business, giving it 'a beauty parlor atmosphere that the old hands apparently are giving' it up for something 'more masculine," W. J. Bragg, Durham county; On tario, representative in legislature for past ten years, who is again chesen his ngme being only one submitted fo convention, ATT Central Ontario's Leading Newspaper Mad "TH will be Proud . COUNTED UP THE RESULTS OF YOUR ADVERTISING EFFORTS: IN THE TIMES-- The Adevrtising Lineage Of . 'Newspaper Is Growing Every D +«Old Records Are Continually Being Broken and New Ones: are. | Aade--Proof that "Advertising in he Times Brings Results." 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