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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932 PAGE EIGHT | [] 1 ; 1 i 1 Synopsis of preceding instalments: Jonathan Corbie, son of new-rich and uncultured parents, was un- happy after his graduation from Cambridge. At 21 he was very much of a dreamer with nothing to do but spend money and kill time. H> disappointed his dia- mond be-decked mother because he did not dress smartly but went about in slouchy comfortable clo- thes. Mrs. Corbie had never been accepted by her neighbors, in- cluding the Marshes, a blue-blood- ed bankrupt family. Priscilla Marsh was very pretty and when Jonathan suggested that his mo- ther get to know the Marshes, she replied that it was their place to call on her first. That day Pris- cilla's hunter bolted. Jonathan stopped the runaway and Priscilla insisted that he accompany her home so her father might thank him. Mr. Marsh was absent but her brother Hugh ungraciously in- vited him to dinner "some night." When Jonathan left Hugh com- plimented Priscilla on her faking a runaway so she could "pick him up." He told her that her mar- riage to a wealthy man was his only hope as he had forged the name of a building contractor named Dawson and would go to prison unless he had 300 lbs. The next mail brought Priscilla an en- thusiastic letter from Clive West- on saying that a rubber company was sending him to East Africa and that many of the men had their wives with them there. At the dinner table that night Jona- than's father sald Hugh Marsh had told him about the runaway incident and had invited them to dinner. a mie sp weak Jonathan knew that at heart his father was a snob and would wel- come an alliance for his son with Priscilla Marsh, no matter what it cost him. Horrible that all he could hope for was the sort of "business" arrangement such as a man would make across an office table before purchasing a house. Not that even so was there any real hope. Why should Priscilla ever consider him ? She must know many well to do men who could paint her father's gates and pay off her father's mortgages, if that was all she wanted. She had told him she knew Lyle Dawson. That was the type of man the modern girl liked--accomplished and easy. Jonathan paused in the wide hall and looked at his reflection in a long, heavily gilded mirror. He thought there was something repellant about his appearance, with his big shoulders and long arms and shock of hair. It seemed to his al- most morbid sensitiveness that be- side him in the mirror he could see Priscilla's dainty form, and her blue eyes laughing at him, He turned hurriedly away. What use to dream wild dreams? He would probably never see her again. At that moment the telephone bell rang. Jornatham hated the phone. It pever brought anything but silly Messages about dinner parties or boring invitations. But, as if sen- sing that tonight it would be some- thing different, he took down the receiver before one of the servants could answer fit. "Hello ?" And it was Priscilla Marsh's voice that answered him. "Is Mr. Jonathan Corbie at home, please ?" Jonathan's heart missed a beat. He swallowed nervously and drew a quick breath bcicre he spoke, "Speaking." The word coundel curt and al- most impolite, and he could have kicked himself for it, but the girl seemed not to notice. "Oh, is that you, Mr. Corbie ? Priscilla Marsh speaking. I'm just ringing up for my father. He won- dered 'f you would come round and spend an hour with us if you are not engaged. I hope you won't think it's too informal, but father persists that you are a hero for saving my life, and wants to thank you himself." : "You're very kind." Stupid for his voice to sound so husky and agitated. "It was nothing. It's all very exaggerated, I am afraid." He heard her laugh. "Well, father insists. He's such an autocrat, and he'll be offended if you won't come. He's rather an in- valid, you know, and we all spo! him shockingly. Do say you'll come." "Will you be there ?" The question was out before he replized what he was asking, and his own daring shocked him, but again she only laughed. "Oh, yes, I'll be thers to hold your hand if you're afraid of bein presented with a laurel wreath. Do come !" He hung up the receiver, feeling Of course it didn't mean anything --just ordinary courtesy. Still-- He stared at himself again in the long mirror, feeling vaguely glad that for once he had bowed to his mother's conventional ideas and potten into a dinner jacket. Per- haps it had been some sort of pre- monition. He walked out into the chilly autumn evening without a hat or coat, and with the queer feeling in his heart that he was being made B fool of, and that when he present- ed himself at the Marshes' shabby front door, he would be told to go away, that he was not expected, But Priscilla herself came out in- i to the hall before he had even given |ly. his name, and was advancing to meet, him. "How nice of you to come ! Some- how I thought you wouldn't." She gave him her hand with easy friendliness. "Haven't you an over- coat ? It seems so cold to-night to me." "I hardly ever wear an overcoat,"] Jonathan said. He was thinking how | Jovely she was. The blue frock | matched her eyes, and was cut away at the neck a little, showing a slender throat and white should- ers. ; "Ex-Fiancee" by Ruby M. Ayres to women he would have seen that she had been crying, and that her smiling galety was a little forced and unnatural. Jonathan followed her father shyly into the shabby library where her father sat by a wood fire, the fine outlines of his head and profile silhouetted against he dark shadows of the room. "Mr. Corbie, father. I thought I'd better escort him personally, in case he tried to run away. He ob- ject 80 strongly to being thought a ro." She laughed, meeting Jonathan's yes. "Oh, I know you have not said so, but I know exactly what you're thinking. I could hear it in your voice on the telephone, You prac- tically said: 'What an awful fuss about nothing.' You must forgive father. He is quite sure I should have been dashed to pieces but for you." The old man had risen from his chair and was leaning on a stick. "I owe you a great debt of gratitude, Mr. Corbie," hz said, and held out his hand. Priscilla was kneeling down on the rug, pushing the smoldering logs to- gether. She was wondering wildly what this big, awkward man would say if he could read her thoughts. What if he could guess that for the past few hours since he left her she had been desperately asking herself how soon she could make a freind of him, something more than a friend; if she was clever enough, as clever as her brother insisted she was, to annex him and his moncy before Dawson came back from Am- erica ! A race against time--such a little time--a breathless, ignoble gamble with hours wherein it rested with her to save a ship that was already so close to the rocks that she could almost hear the breaking of the waves that must engulf them all if he failed her. Mr. Marsh had produced a box of cigars. "I never smoke them myself," he said. "The doctors insisted that I gave up smoking years ago. So if they are not too good---" "I never smoke, either," Jonathan sald. He was sitting down now, so close to where Priscilla knelt on the rug that by putting out his hand he could have touched her. It was she who talked. keeping the ball of conversation rolling be- | tween the two almost silent men, | till presently her father glanced up at the clock on the shelf and said: "If you will excuse me. I have to go to bed early, by doctor's orders, but if you will stay a little while and talk to my daughter, Hugh will be in directly." And presently he had left thém and Priscilla was sitting in the big | chajf opposite, her slender feet stretched out to the fire, her face in a shadow. "It was kind of you t> come," said suddenly. "Kind ?" "Yes." She leaned forward now her hands clasped round her knees the firelight warm on her face "Somehow I thought you would not We haven't been verv--neighborly, Mr. Corbie, have we ?" Jonathan's south twisted into 2 little smile as he echoed his mo- ther's words with faint irony. "You mean--you haven't called ?" She laughed rather nervously. "Yes, I suppose I did mean that. Tt seems silly--I don't know why." She fell silent for a moment, then went on with an effort: "It just shows how one can miss all sorts of good friends by not taking a littlc trouble. she "Friends ?" he echoed. "Yes. Aren't we going to be | friends yo It was so difficult; such uphill work. With another man it -vould have been easy, Priscilla told her- self, but just because this man was not like other men, every word she spoke sounded forced and artificial. She almost felt that he must guess what she was so desperately trying to do. And all the time her brother's words were driving her like a ruth- less machine which had caught her in its iron hands'and from which she could not escape. "We've got ten days, that's all. Ten days before Dawson gets back, and then you know what will hap- pen if you haven't pulled it off." Pulled it off | How horrible! As if she wes a decoy in some low gambling house, sent out to drag an unsuspecting victim to ruin. More honest to speak the truth to this man who sat so silently be- fore her; more honest to throw her- self on his mercy and say: "Will you help me? I'm in ter- rible trouble." What an absurd thought! As if any man could be expected to help a woman to whom he had spoken but once in his life, to sign a check in cold bloed and hand it over to her without a question asked, without Segurily of any sort. 1 an effort she fore to further speech. 2 horsey "Perhaps you don't believe in sud- den friendships ? Some people don't, I know, but I'm afraid I'm dread- fully modern. I like doing things on impulse. If I meet people I like I don't want to wait for weeks and months till I get to know them in the ordinary way. I like to ask, Jel: Jare we going to be friends or Her voice trailed away tremulous. Jonathan stood up. He looked like 3 sian) a the Seti, she thonght, volun h - tle fror: him, ait "Are you trying to ask me that 7" he said in a queer voice, ? She stared up at him, smile, but her lips only and refused. "1 Suppose you think I'm a litt» mad," she said, "But this afternoon when we met--I thought--" Eloquence came suddenly to Jona= than Corbie, . trying to quivered i Perhaps had he been more used «v_ {To be continued) AHEM | 5 EVIDENGE REFUTED SAYS U.S. AGENT German Spy Claimed Re- sponsible for Kingsland Plant Blast Washington.--A charge that Theodore Wozniak, claimed by the United States to have been the German spy responsible for the destruction of the Kingsland, N.J., munitions plant of the Can- adian Car & Foundry Co., was "either a perjurer or forger," was made before the German- American Claims Commission by United States attorneys. The fire which destroyed the Kingsland plant just before the United States entered the war, started at Wozniak's work heneh. On the claim of new evi- dence, the Commission is re- hearing the case in which the United States is attempting to prove German agents were im- plicated in the destruction. Linked with the Kingsland case in the hearings is the de- struction of the Black Tom ter- minal of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road in New York harbor about a vear earlier. The claims against Germany in the case total $40,000,000 and once before the Commission gave a decision favorable to Germany. Claim Evidence Refuted At present hearings testimony hy Wozniak on his activities after the fire was claimed by United States lawyers to be refuted by three letters, comprising a part of the new evidence. The letters attributed to Woz- niak were not discovered until May, 1931, They were written, one from St. Louis and two from Mexico City. Wozniak had previ- ously testified before agents that CAT COMES BACK, BUT AFTER FIFTY MILLION YEARS' ABSENCE Washington.--A strange cat-size creature like no animal now living has come back after 50,000,000 years to help tell scientists how the mammal tribe to which man be- longs got its start toward mastery of the earth, Buried half a mile under the earth, the skull of this ancient beast has been brought to the surface by an oil well drill in Caddo parish, Louisiana. In announcing the find the Smithsonian Institution said it is "one of the most remarkable dis- coveries in the history of verte- Late paleontology." The skull, though small and in- significant in itself, brings long- wanted knowledge of conditions on earth 'when drying up of the great swamps as spelling the doom of dinosaurs and giving mammals a chance to develop unhindered. Mammals are warm-blooded, while the dinosaurs were reptiles and cold-blooded, The creature is ini; ortant because scientists heretofore have known ¥ about mammals in their early days. Most of the early mammals were so small and their bones so delicate that no trace of them can now be found. This ancient ancestor of what is now the all-powerful mammal tribe belonged to what scientists call the "family periptychidae." Teeth in the skull show ths animals prob- ably lived on insects Some Farmers Holding Wheat Seem Sure of Higher Prices Winnipeg, Nov. 25.--Hopeful of reaping a larger profit on their 1932 wheat crops, farmers of the Prairie Provinces have adopted an individual holding policy and are marketing only sufficient to take care of the im- mediate problem of purchasing the necessities of life. It Is es- timated that 50 per cent. of the grain is being held on the farms to avo!d storage charges, Sales are being made from time tn time only ag pressure is applied by ereditors for payment of ers, in a more favorable position financially, are holding their pro- duct until the new year. The holding policy has not af- PATRIOTISM TAKES CURIOUS TURN IN JAPAN Young Man Mutilates Him- self Before Altar of Shrine Tokio.--~For a 1... .ent he bowed in reverence before the altar of the Yasukuni Shrine, near Tokio. Then from the left sleeve of his coat he drew a short dagger-like knife. His left hand he laid on the top of the offertory chest. Quickly, but with no show of emotion, he drew the blade across the base of his little finger on the left hand. He picked up the severed finger and placed it in an envelope upon which was written in Japanese characters, "An offering to the spirits of the Heroes." With a zes- ture of reverence he droped the envelope into the chest, J He then threw the bloodstained knire into the ablution water basin at the foot of the altar and turned to walk away, A gendarme, not'c- ing the blood dripping from the worshipper's * left hand, detained fected grain exports to any ex- tent. Millions of bushels of wheat are in position awaiting shipment to overseas ports lead- ing exporters here state, Support given by the Govern- ment to the wheat market hos proved of immense benefit to have made a small profit on their debts. It is not by any means a con- certed movement to withhold grain from the market, agrarian | leaders state. Many farmers | have been forced to sell, but oth-' at the time the letters were writ- | ten he was in the Adirondack | Mountains. . "Since Woznlak's handwriting in the letters is established and is not disputed by Germany. their production proves at least," Robert W. Bonvnge. American 2~ent, told the Commission, "that Wozniak, Germany's im- nortant witness, is either a per- jurer or a forgzer." The production followed the submission as evi- of an ged «py sent from Mexien to the Statcs in 1917. The Unit- contends this message licity in the of the letters dence alle secret ited States nroved German eon Black Tom destrue One of the princinal other ar guments by the T'nited States in producing the Wozniak letters vag that they proved the man to have been a German agent. It requires nearly 1600 pounds of ter to produce one pound of Ifalfa and over 1,100 pounds t duce one pound of white sweet BackacrHft Op ou, FL RLTMON Santagrams f= | | | | | | | | | . CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND According to an ancient custom a great deal of rev- elry was permitted from | Christmas Eve until Twelfth Night, to which blazing and . crackling logs would give | their warmth. Green dec- orations of holly, emblems in producing kind benevo- lent sympathies, There is | the old ceremony of serving up Boar's Head on Christ mas Day. Everything con- spired to produce kind, happy feelings of old fash- ioned hospitality. "At il Christmas be 'merry and | thankful withal, and feast | thy good neighbors the | great with the small." From the very heart of this galety and merriment come our choicest gifts for you--Yardley's, Morney's, Bronley's Fine Soaps, Pot- ter and Moore, Gifts that touch the heartstrings and still leave something in the pocketbook, In our English assortment of gifts you will find prices from 35e to $10.00. When in need of Druzs "QUICKLY 'Phone SAVE YOU MONEY ANC SERVE YOU WELL FLOATING FISH | PLANT SUGGESTED Newfoundland Must Pro- | cess Fish for Better Mar- ket Declares Writer St. John's, Nfil.--"Prosperity will not return to Newfoundland until we get off the salt fish stan- dard," declares "F.W.B.£."" in the Evening Telegram. The writ- or advocates processing of fish for a better market than the one now supplied and suggests that fhe chanze should be made with either floating or centralized plants ) "Hit | ronnt inr w herto the wealth of the has been reckoned as be- th 80 many thousands of mint hf «alt fish annually. All very wall vhen there is demand." " "Too lonz have we heen atering to the people who have harely enough money to buy our prodnetz. Now let ns produce an article which will appeal to those who havé money enough to buy it. The e perimental burean at Bay Bulle hae shown that it | possible to put up fish in mam other wavs hesides salting it. and it fa to these other methndz that Newfoundland must look for its salvation." The writer recommends float ing plants or centralized plants along the const as steps to the market of higher prices, "For example a floating plant ~ould operate on the Labrador during the summer months and at Port aux Basques for the win- fishery. The mobility of a floating plant would give It na very large rancze, and fish could be processed either by salting, smoking or filleting, and the by- products could be manufactured and stored on lighters moored alonrside. ready for export. "The floating nlant also wonld reduce the number of times the flah would be handled, and there would be less spoilage from that cause." He does not suggest that the ship would be used ag a means of conveyance to market but only as a manufacturinz plant to steam from place to place as reouired, Tt would be a mother-ship for the flect. ter MANITOBA AREAS AGAIN SEEK AID | Need for Relief in Some Sections Greater Than Last Year Winnipeg. -- Urging that the need of relief is greater than last year, calls for aid from tho Churches in southwestern Mani- toba are reaching United Church offices here. Some sections of this area experienced their sec- ond crop failure {n succession thig year, while in 1930 only a very indifferent harvest was reaped. Many people, it is stat- ed, whose resources permitted them to subsist thus far now find themselves in acute distress, re- quiring both food and clotning for their homes. The support of the pastors in this drouth-stricken region has had to be supplemented from the missionary and maintenance fund during the past two years. Pre- viously all were self-supporting, and many of them contributed liberally to the general budget of the United Church. Some old churches, it is gtated, which have been self-sustaining for the past thirty years, now find themselves unable to carry on without as- stan | leaving him crop. indebtedness of the farmer ro)- hed him of any profit might have come from his crop. with cash to show for his year's work Among the towns where the people are feeling the pinch want are. Waskada, Lyleton, Elva, Pierson, Tilston, Napinka, Medora, and other communitics While some of the farmers in this rea are well established and have been able to withstand the | farmers free from debt and who |° In other cases, however, | which | practically ns || {him and learned the following: He was Yoshio Yaguchi, 5 farm- er, aged 26. On April 25, 1932, he was calied up for active military service and sent to Woosung Forts, near Shanghai, Before he saw any ctual fighting the truce between ipanese, and Chinese forces there declared and Yaguchi was sent ack to Japan. But youn cientione. Yagueh! was most He thought of his 'men and his comrades who lied and worried because they been forced to give up their , while he had been pernitied | to return unscathed. His worry led to his | Tokio and to his sacrifice. | *lained that ould [ the offering the shrine earlier | but that ha could not get tavcther | enourh money for some wecks to | | visit to he w nav his fare and expenses. He was treated in hosnital and then allowed to return home, vicissitudes of the past two years, | the tenant farmers, the families f hired men and the casual la- borers who reside in the rural centres are sald in most cases ta be in need of relief. Assistance formerly came to t suffer from local sources, h a re- sult of the past two years com- munity benevolence is no longer adequate for the requirements, se it ag After you have served steak. ham or other greasy foods, use a little ammonia in the di ter, hwa- "One should always love oneself, lifelong lrarn to for that is the only romance." --- Gabriele Human hair is half he steel used in str strong as tural work. | HOOF MARKET FOR GRAIN Because it has a special value {at thls time of the vear when many farmets will be feeding He ex- | have made | | | beef cattle as one of their prin- { occupations, ref- to a table of seasonal erence made | values determined by the { minfon Experimental Station | Rosthern, Sask., showing the { value of harley and wheat, re- inectively. when marketed through beef at prices ranging from four cents per pound tn ten ents per pound. The table is as follows: With steers at cipal fe at Barley Wheat may be may be marketed marketed at at 10 cents per pound $1.59 9 cents per pound 1.27 8 cents per pound 1.15 Do- | | 4 cents per pound EARLY WEEK SPECIALS - TUESDAY « WEDNESDAY - _ MONDAY j A. & P. QUALITY BEEF | ROASTS AND STEAKS | Porterhouse or Wing Ib. 18¢ A. & P. COUNTRY STYLE ( SAUSAGE 3 Ibs. 25¢ SUET CHOPPED 9 |p, 950 KIDNEY SWEET PICKLED SIDE PORK Boneless Ib. 9c SMELTS FANSY Ib, 19c SILVER BRIGHT STEAKS Piece Ib. 12¢ AYLMER GREEN LABEL SALMON JAM Strawberry 40 oz. jar 27¢ CORN Aoies 2 No. 2 Tins 19¢ CHOICE WHITE AYLMER CHOICE TOMATOES 2 No. 21-2 tins 19¢ Atlantic & Pacific 7 Co. LIMITED OF CANADA LB. 14c By the The Great New Zealand and took part in the first gold rush to Gabriel's Gully, Otago. Later he settled in modest quarters in Auckland above his small plumber's shop, and was there for 47 years. He lived austerely, and worked al- most up to the day of his death. McCaul subscribed £50,000 to war relief funds, Death duties will absorb £100,000 of the for- tune he has left. The remainder is to go to his two nieces, one of whom was his housekeeper, 71 cents per pound 1.05 7 cents per pound 94 612 cents per pound 83 6 cents per pound 72 515 cents per pound 61 5 cents per pound 51 41, cents per pound 40 29 PLUMBER FINDS * FORTUNE IN GOLD Auckland, N.Z.--Neighbors of George McCaul, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, who work- ed as a plumber in a small way in Auckland and died at the age of 96 years recently, are sur- prised to learn that he was worth $1,000,000. Emigrating to Aus- tralia when a poor apprentice plumber, McCaul went on to Brazil leads all the nations in the number of holidays. It has 84, and the United States, with 54, is sec- ond. Times' Classified Ads. Get Results. L. F. 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