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H 1 A | ment. It was Jean who broke » THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 PAGE NINE Cinderella of the Skies Ve A Thrilling Romance of Adventure in the Clouds " Jean Brandes, lovely blond se- cretary to William A. Decker, has lost Jimmie Reinsford, youn aviator, just as she had Jouns him. They have been engaged just twenty-four hours n Clarence Terry, father of Jim. mie's former fiancee, dies sud- denly. Jimmie is executor of the estate and is called away for his funeral and Jean is sure he will never come back to her. As she wonders and worries . because there is mo word from him, a broken wreck of a girl comes to her door for help. It is Loretta Lansing, the girl whose lies al- most sent Jean to the peniten- tiary, Jean her aid when the Judge sent Loretta to prison. The girl is penniless, ill and aldne;. priton doors have just Jean takes her in. instead of the word for which she has been waiting and praying, there comes a noncom- mital wire from Jimmie. LEGACY ' "I'll have a nurse here in fifteen minutes," Dr, Dowling said, as he came to the door of the sick-room and looked at Jean, as she stood staring stupidly at the square of yellow paper in her hand, "It's pneu. monia, She's apt to be pretty sick. He hesitated, watching Jean, Then he spoke again, "Are you sure you want her here, Jean?" He repeated the question before she heard him, "She's better here," hg said, and she did not recognize her own voice. Dowling went back to the sick- room, and Grace ind Jack hurried | , into their coats and went off on an errand .0 the corner drug store, While they were gone Jean walked up and down the living room, trying to get control of herself, She was desperate. Why had he telegraphed her so? What did it mean? She tried to convince herself that it was nothing at all--just a man's way of telegraphing, But she knew she was only denying the truth, Something was wrong =~ very wrong. Her hands clenched into her soft palms, as she dropped to the couch and beat them helplessly against its upholstered sur- face. . "I'm acting like a fooll" she said over and over again. She remembered his words, his gestures, that told her he loved her, But always she re- read the wire, "How can I live until tomorrow afternoon?" Jean walked to the window and threw it half way up. The cool air soothed her, and she turned a comparatively calm face to Grace and Jack when they came back as the nurse arrived. The nurse went directly into the sick-room, and it was a long time before Dowling finjshed with his instructions to her. Grace looked at Jean anxiously as the firelight flickered over her face. Loretta's unexpected return had ate fected the girl more than Grace thought it would, For Grace had forgotten, in the excitement, about the telegram, She was very tender and thoughtful of Jean that night, With the morning Jean had fresh courage, She smiled at her fears of the night before and assured her- self that nothing was wrong or could be wrong between her and Jimmie, "The nurse said Loretta slept well," Grace reported, as she combed her handsome dark hair, "I suppose you don't want anybody at the office to know about her." "Of course not! That would spoil what we're doing. You don't mind, do you?" and Jean turned to Grace, "You're the one who is out a bed- room=-not me!" Grace laughed back "You are a darling! There isn't an- other person in the world who would have done what you are doing" Grace came over and kissed Jean sottly on the cheek--a thing she was not in the habit of deing. "Anything worrying you, Jean?" Grace asked, as the two swung up the avenue to the office,' "You don't seem quite yourself, I'm sorry if Loretta upset you" Jean did not make any reply, Grace watched her narrowly, "She is such a child about everything but business. I rather dread the thought of her falling in love with anybody. It is bound to be the wrong person," she feflected, his th Almost in response to this thought Jean remarked: "Mr Larry is coms ing to the office today to see Decker, The poor man is in quite a shogle" Grace was frankly stare tied, "For heaven's sake! You're not in love with that cake-cater, are you?" And she stopped still in the "middle of the street, "Of course not," Jean answered; "but I don't want him to be too dis- appointed when he sees me today." "I wouldn't let that worry mel" Grace said drily, as she looked at the gir! who walked beside her so gracefully, Jean wore a smart little frock of black silk, cut to perfection. She wore a slim black coat and a fox fur, Over her hair was pulled a diminutive black hat. At her throat was the jade pendaht, and about her wrists were Loretta's bracelets of jade. The black, Grace decided, made Jean's blond hair more startling=more beautiful. The girl had certainly .carned a thing or two about clothes as well as about the stock market. "You're wearing Loretta's brace. lets today," Grace said, "Is it some kind of penance? "I thought it might be a geod thing to do--for self-discipline," Jean answered, Saturdays were always busy in the Decker offices. The morning hours slipped by faster than Jean ever be- lieved they could, She powdered her nose and ran a comb through her hair at noon preparatory to getting a sandwich at a nearby shop, when suddenly Larry Decker walked into the room with a jaunty air, his cane r his arm, his hat in his hand and a fower in his buttonhole, ud he stopped in the middle of the floor and stared at Jean. He took" a step closer, and then pulled fut his handkerchief and mopped his Neither of them spoke for a mo- the My silence, "Please don't be ungry with mel" she said in a pleading tone, "I did it because you said L was so homely 1" Larry Deckeér's face was a study, Primarily he was angry at being duped, he who fancied himself so smart where women were concerned, He had made rather a fool of hime self, He had proposed marriage to this girl) At heart Larry" Decker was something of which Jean had no knowledge, He was a complete snob, Had Jean turned out to be an ac~ tress or an adventuress, he might have laughed. But phe was his bro- ther's secretary, She worked! Lars ry Decker was furious at jean, but most of all he was furious at his brother, For he knew that this was William Decker's idea of a joke. "Will you tell my brother that | am here, Miss Brandes?" he asked in a cold voice, Jean obeyed his command imme- diately, and Decker read in her flush. ed face something of the meeting in the reception room when she told him Larry was waiting to see him, "Hello, Larry!" the older man said cheerfully as his brother came into his office, He appeared not to notice the younger man's angry face, "What have you to say about ma- trimony this morning?" Decker was frankly grinning now. "1 think you've played a dirty, rot- ten trick on me, you and your sten- ographer!" Larry shouted as lhe pounded his fist on the table. "You've made me the laughing stock of the town! That's what you've done! I suppose it is what you gall funny, Damned vulgar, | call it!" He threw himself down in a chair, "Yes?" drawled Decker, his voice dangercusly quiet. "That's your idea, is it? Let me tell you something! If vou had had the good fortune to persuade Jean to marry you, which 1 think she has too much sense ever to do, you'd get more of my money than you ever will marrying one of those skinny flappers of this set you're trying so hard to break into!" And Decker bit off the end of a ci- gar viciously: Larry winced at the reference to his social position. "But why should I both. to get angry with you?" Decker said scorn- fully, "You've always been a social climber, Just where would you have climbed it it hadn't been for my work and my money?" Decker looked bitterly at the younger man before im; at his weak face, his extravagant clothes, "I'd marry the girl myself tomor- row, if she'd have me. Yes, I'd mar- ry her in a minute!" William Deck- er said suddenly, "And I'd leave every cent I own to her, too. At least money wouldn't make a com- plete fool of her, as it seems to have done with the rest of my family!" Larry was openly alarmed at the turn the quarrel had taken, The one thing in the world hie respected were the hands which held the purse- strings. His one fear was disinher- itance. Was it possible that his bro- ther was serious? Might Jean be- come Mrs, William A. Decker? Promptly he changed his tone, He apologized, explained, qualified. "It's the first time I've fallen for a girl since that last breach-of-pro- mise suit," he ended lamely, Larry's sudden shift did not anger his brother, It disgusted him, For the first time he knew Larry to be the true weakling he was, It was typical of Larry not to men~ tion the wager, the $10,0ufy he had bet on Jean's plain face. Decker smiled bitterly to himself and dis- missed it from his mind, He saw Larry for the complete rotter that he was. "That's it. Back water, just as S00N as you sce it might cost you a little money, I'm fond of that girl. She's the only person 1 know, ex- cept Drefus, who doesn't flatter me and try to get money or tips on the market or real estate information out of me, To the rest of you I'm just a gold mine, to be worked con stantly, Decker stood up as he spoke. "Let's not quarrel about this any more. Don't apologize to me. Save that for Miss Brandes, Money can buy any emotion I 8 y from my family except that of sincere affec- tion. I have ceased to expect that" The financial titan turned back to his work without comment, Jean was nowhere to be seen as Larry went out and he gratefully left the matter of apology until a later time, He wondered if Jimmie Reins. ford and Scott Gerald knew Jean worked for his brother. At least he had not been the only fool. That was comforting. And there was no denying the fact that the girl was a beauty. Could he help it if she de- liberately set about to fool him? As Larry thought about his situa- tion, Jean and Grace were discussin the matter as they munched sand- wiches at the lunch counter, "He was not angen he was just salted because he ; ad been " en im by a poor working girll" Jean laughed, but it was clear that Larry's gttitude had hurt her, Grace's lip curled, "I think he's the biggest cad I ever knew! can't imagine any man acting like that, I was scared to death you were in love with that flop!" Although there was so much work to be done, the hands of the clock seemed to stand still dpring the af- ternoon, Jean prayed that Decker would leave before Jimmie arrived. Sometimes he stayed late on Satur- days for special appointments, Ive o'clock and then 5.30 came and still Decker femained, Suddenly he appeared with his coat and hat on, and he gave her some final or- ders. As he closed the door behind him, she sighed a great sigh of re- lief. She hurried to the small coat room. adjoining her office and pow- dered her nose, put a touch of rou on her lips and sat down to wait, The building was quiet, for it was almost € now, and only two elevators were bpitating, She heard a step coming down the hall and she knew it was Jimmies, . Her heart beat so hard she could scarcely breathe, He opened the door, just the same hand. some, bronzed Jimmie who had told her he loved her, NN Ld ra Brown Jean stood up, her hand out, her smile ecstatic, just & little wistlul, a little fearful, Jimmie did wot seem to sce her hand, He smiled and was pleasant and matter of fact, The color drain- ed out of Jean's cheeks, leaving them dead white against her erimson lips, "Sorry, 1 had to bother you to- night," he explained as he opened 4 brief case he was carrying with him, Jean tried to steady her hands, She knew that what she feared had happened, : "As you possibly know, 1 am one of the executors of Mr, Terry's es. tate," Jimmie explained as he bus fed himself with d ts in his brief case. His face fooked thin and haggard as the fell full on it and she longed to lean over and kiss him, hold him in her arms, "That is why I am here at this time," his voice continued monoto nously, "My Terry's safety deposit boxes have been opened and there is a packet for you, It was left with explicit directions that 1 deliver it to you personally without delay af- ter his death." looked at the cold, emotionless face of the man before her. He handed her a large envelope covered with red seals, On it was scrawled: "Jean Brandes, To be opened. by her im. mediately after my death in the pre- sence of James Reinsford" Jean sat down at her desk, switch. ed on the light, slit the envelope with her paper knife and the contents spread over her desk. It contained bonds---gilt-edged bonds == Liberty Bonds, and the two young folks stared at them, Mechanically Jean began to count, There was $30,000 worth, Jean looked inside the envelope again and found a short letter ad- dressed to her, Jt was not dated. It read: "Dear Jean =~ I am leaving you these bonds for reasons best under- stood by you 'and me. I realize I have done you a great wrong, Do not believe I think this money in any way repairs the damage. But 1 do believe it will give you an inde- pendence in which you may find some measure of happiness. ecause of you, dear child, I found at least contentment, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything. (Signed) Clarence Terry." ears came to Jean's eyes. She read and reread the dead man's mes- sage. He had always been a tragic figure to her. Sometimes she won dered if it might not have been bet- ter if he had gone away with Vivian and founded a new life. Certainly the old life had turned to ashes and dust for him. Jimmie, So completely swept with her own emotions was she that it did not occur to her to judge its el- fect on him. Jimmie read the short note, drop. ped it on the desk and straightened his shoulders, He looked at Jean's bowed head and it seemed to him that he could never believe in any- body or anything again, He had had such faith in this girl. He had loved her, idealized her, For a week Bob and Mrs, Terry had talked to him; tried to convince him, Then he had found the legacy. He felt he knew the answer to it all in her tear-filled eyes, "Then there WAS some obliga- tion!!" he repeated, "I tried not to believe ite!" Jimmie was desper- ate with jealousy and suspicion. Pro- bably she was playing Larry Decker as well as his brother, No wonder she seemed to have plenty of money and clothes! "It is.a sweet letter," Jean said in a low voice, a voice which seemed to stab the man hefore her. It was the end of the episode for him, lie had been a complete fool! "Sorry to have kept you, Miss Brandes," Jimmie: said hurriedly. "There is nothing more for us to say to each other except good-bye: Bet- ter put the bonds in the safe!" Then as an afterthought=="And better burn up that letter! In an instant he was gone. © -- ' To be continued (Copyright, Public Ledger Co.) ANTI-WAR SERMON WAS BOOMERANG Pastor Charged With In. sulting Country, Chaplains and Churches Washington, Apr, 10--A Lenten sermon aguinit war reacted to brin against the Jove who delivered it the charge that he had insulted his country, the churches of America and the chaplains of the army and navy, Speaking from the pulpit of a war chaplain, with the chief of chaplains of the United States army seated in a pew just below him, the Rev, Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Christian Tem. ple at Baltimore, delivered the ser. mon here this week, He was quoted as saying that "there is no more jus- tification for being a chaplain in the army or navy than there is for be ing a chaplain in a speakeasy." Rev, Jiion Nobile Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, in which the sermon was 'clivered, has made public a letter that he had written to the Baltimore pastor Dr, Pierce, who was Presid: Coolidge's pastor, styled the utters ances as "insulting your country, in sulting the churches of the United States, and insulting en masse the chaplains of the army and navy." In Baltimore, De Justis auld Sh was not aware that the pastor of the First Congregational Church was a chaplain, and, of course, would have said nothing of chaplains if I had known beforehand .hat he was one, However, T am against war and Chris A tians taking any past da mas" Jean's eyes were teyrified as she|y Jean handed the pathetic letter to]. picture of prohibition and the jazz age undermining the religion and habits of the United States child, Of the United States she also found that children become accustomed to sce the law disregarded, "The child often assists his parents to distill and sell liquge and with bad examples be- fore him, loses respect for all law" Los Angeles Indian Is 120 Years of Age Los Angeles, Calif, April 19, James Suviate, deat mute indian from Mexico, bolds the undisputed 'old age honors in Los Angeles, "Age?" asked a census enumer~ ator yesterday, "Oh, about 120, perhaps older," Mrs, ¥, M, Watts answered for Suviate, "He doesn't know how old he really is, but he remembers things that happened 100 years ago." Mrs, Watts said the Indian be. gan working for her family ov years ago, and' as a boy, many years before, was held prisoner by Apache Indians, SOCIAL WELFARE IN CANADA LAUDED League Inyestigator Tells Sad Tale of Conditions in U.S.A. Geneva, Apr. 19 Canada is given a comparatively clean bill of health, in regard to the moral and social welfare of its youth, by a report made to the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, by Mlle, Marie Chaptal, president of the Interna- tional Council of Nurses, who was commissioned by the League to make a preliminary enquiry into the moral and social conditions of youth, Mile. Chaptal spent some time in both the United States and Canada investigating conditions, especially in the larger cities. She found that the youth of Canada generally grew up in an atmosphere which would com. pare most favorably with that in any part of the world, The head of the French nurses found hygiene progressing in the United States, but declaring the mor als of the children are being ne- glected and she paints a rather lurid "lion Roams Alabama Golf Course," Well we suppose that's as good an alibl as any for not get. ting home to supper on time, Border Citles Star, 'PR. PROPOSAL 15 NOT A NEW ONE Progressive Motion to Intro- duce Measure Defeated by House in 1923 Ottawa, Apr. 19-<Proportional representation, which now is oc cupying the attention of the ad- ministration and of the opposition members as well, is not a new subject in Ottawa, In the House of Commons a few days ago, Vre- mier Mackenzie King intimated the government is glving the mat- ter consideration and sald the pro- gress made during the session will determine whether or not a bill is introduced, In $921 a commitiece of the house investigated "§, 1.", the ab- breviation by which it generally i# known, The commitiee recoin- mended taking a plebiscite because it was "not prepared to recommend the application in the next general election," The committee way 1m- pressed by the arguments presents ed by the advocates of the symem and in its report said: "It must be apparent that the present system stituencies meets fully the purpore intended only when no more than two candidates are nominated, Ho- cent experiences in election in Cans ada have brought home to out people the faet that when three or more candidates present theme | Practically all the of elections in single-member con | 4 the | Liberal and Labor selves In single-member constituen- cles, the candidate declared elected way, and often does, represent merely a minority of tiose voulng in the constituency," It was atter the 1921 "dlection that a debate and division took place-on the report. W, C, Good, Progressive member for Braut in Vebruary, 1923 introduced a mor tion calling for the adoption ot v, It, in multi-member constituencies, then leaders took part in the depute and in the division that followed, the motion win lost, Among those who vored for it were Vremler King, Hon, W, 8. Fielding, snd Hon, Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, Right, Hon, Arthur Meighen, then leader of the Coli pervative party led the forces op. posed to the motion although party lines were not followed rigidly iu the division, Hon, Lucien Cannon, solicitor-general and Hon, James Malcolm, Minister of Trade nnd Commerce, were two of the pres. ent cabinet ministers who voted in opposition to the motion, THREE-CORNERED * FIGHT FOR MANION Fort William, Apr, 19-=Hon, It. | J. Manion, member of the Hous of Commons for the constituency of Fort Willlam, will be oppose next dominion election by nominees, . Meeting In secret convention, John R. Pattison, member of the city hydro commission and former alderman, was nominated us Wilson, the representative, C, W, minated Monday, | candidate, " so8. 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J Kinley (Liberal, Lunenburg) which would have extended the same privilege to the wet municipalities wishing to return to the prohibition fold, As the bill stands for third reading yet municipalities in wet or dry unties may have liquor stores es | tablished, | | Labor | no= | Liberal Municipalities in wet counties, the taking of a local plebiscite, hay authorize sale of beer and wine at meals by hotels, and beer and wine hy the glass in Commission parlors but no municipality, wet or dry, 0 v dry county may authorize suc) tt e\ I ---------------- The BRITISH AMERICAN OIL CO. LIMITED Qu ETL (JITA