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TUESDAY, AUGUST '17, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES:GAZETTE PAGE FIVE Today's Short Story THE MATCHMAKERS By Louis Arthur Cunningham #QUT I've never seen the girl!" # protested Tad Bergely to the grizzily old giant who was the guthor of his days. "Anyway, how do you know she'll want me?" Tad, as he soon found out, was treading hard on Big Bill Berke- ly's temperamental corns. "Don't be a young fool!" ex- ploded Big Bill. "Tom Raleigh en' me decided your fate and his daughter's before either of you saw the light; before we were even married, in fact. It was one day after we'd struck it rich. [Tom says, 'When you have a son an' me a daughter or vicy versy, Bill, we'll make them marry, since I'm certain neither could do better' We shook hands on it fright out there in the foothills-- we've stuck to our bargain. But you don't get yours and she oesn"t get hers unless Tom and e see you spliced before we go; maybe . , . yes, sure ... a ttle kiddie belongin' to you. You're going to Los Angeles to- morrow. You're to meet Tom's Constance at a place called Pur- le Mountain, where Tom has a ome. I'll give you a month." i The old man's sincerity weigh- ed more with Tad than bluster or threat of disinheritance could have done. He looked resigned. "I'll go and meet her, anyway, 'and I promise you I'll do my best ito love her and make her love me. But there are many things » . - What does she look like?" . "She sent you a picture. But don't judge by looks." "Lord have mercy!" Tad re- coiled from the intellectual vis- lage, the tortoise-shell glasses in ithe photo of a truly formidable young lady. Nevertheless, Tad went to Pur- ple Mountain. He found the great 'house deserted by all except /its master, 'Tom Raleigh, Big Bill's partner. » "She's gone!" said old Tom dis- gustedly. "Rebelled. Said she wasn't going to be stampeded into a marriage with 'any man, She's around Los Angeles with "a hell-arisin' bolshevik woman called Kate Marquis." Relieved, Tad offered to look for the truant. He might be abl¢ to increase her antagonism. Tom Raleigh agreed. "Know what she looks like?" he de "Yes, oh yes! I have studied her picture till I could recognize her if I was blindfolded in the cata- combs." Tad cruised the suburbs look- ing enthusiastically on a girl with an equal-rights for-women cast of countenance. He found her at last in a tearoom that her father had mentioned, drinking tea in a dissipated way with several other girls and holding forth on the world's probleras, The place seem- ed a sort of intellectual stamping ground. Tad, whose hunger v.as not great, watched form behind a chocolate eclair and trembled like the dove who espies the snake which may discover and fascinate him. There was a dainty bit of fluff who came and settled on & bench near Tad's. She, too, was watch- ing the Raleigh girl as though trying to attract her attention. She had the darlingest blue eyes and the kind of hair that best accompanies them, She dimpled prettily. "Excuse my boldness," said Tad, "but would you mind telling me if that young lady over there is or is not Miss Cypstance Raleigh?" "Why, why . ..no.,.I mean yes, of course. Why do you ask?" Pad had to unburden himself to someone. "And there you are," said Tad when he had finished his tale. "I don't love her; she doesn't want me, and two fond papas are doomed to a disappointed old age." "You must meet her, anyway," said the sympathetic little thing. "You must take her home. Too much tea is bad for her." . Constance, when Tad was pre- sented, greeted him frigidly and began a dissertation on shotgun matrimony. Tad dragged her to a taxi. : Old Tom was on the steps when they reached Purple Mountain. "Here she is, sir," remarked Tad brightly, "What 'is . . . where did you find that Socialist agitator?" de- manded old Tom. "Where is my daughter, Katy Marquis? You made her run away." The Jady Bolshevik had not said a word during: her trip out with Tad; now she laughed. "You're an old tyrant, Comrade Raleigh; but I think she's coming back to you. There's her car now." A roadster slid up beside them and out stepped . , . who else? . . . blue eyes and golden hair 'and all the appropriate rest. "I'm back, dad. Won't you introduce meto...to,..my...? She looked at Tad with an eye that would have bowled him over if it had not done so half an hour past. "I knew I'd bring you around, Connie. Are you ready to obey me? You owe Tad an apology, and how did he get hold of Katy?" "Oh, I'll fix it up with , , with Tad," smiled the rebel. ~ "Thanks for your photo, Katy. I'll give him a real living one now." Big Bill and old Tom still fancy themselves as matchmakers and look upon little Thomas William Berkely, their grandson, as though they and only they were respon- sible for his existence. Holland Welcomes Her Queen of Athletes at Amst A rousing r ti dam, Holland, of the kind usually reserved for royalty, is accorded to a Dutch housewife, Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen, the outstanding star of the Olympic games, She is shown leaving the town hall with delegation of farmers from her birthplace, Hoofdorp, who called to welcome her. Children are not in native costume. Shower of Money Surprises Peterboro Peterborough, Aug. 17 -- (CP)-- Ten and $20 bills fluttered on Pe- terborough sidewalks Monday. Pop- placed at the disposal of the mem- bers in order to improve the debate, This would also serve more information to the public". to convey "It rests with the public to de- velop a sense of responsibility to our country and to improve the func- tioning of the parliamentary sys- tem. There was never a time when parliamentary institutions were fac- ed with more acid tests", said Mr. Fleming in conclusion. Surveys by Air Steadily Expand Caledon, Aug. 16--Opening a 14- day conference of air survey officials from five empire countries at the Caledon Mountain Trout Club this morning, Percy Llewellyn Hunting, head of the Hunting Aviation Group, stated that air survey is gradually winning recognition for its advantages of speed and effici- ency over ground survey methods. Mn Hunting pointed out that the intensive American search for raw materials, currently being carried out in foreign countries, offers a challenge to all air survey com- panies, and that' this challenge is being met by American as well as Canadian and British companies. He warned the delegates that if Canadian and British companies are to stay in the fight, they must re- tain technical supremacy in every instance fn which they have estab- lished it. Many people, he said, won't be- lieve the true facts of air survey efficiency, such as contouring to within five-foot accuracy limits. However, he continued, the whole concept of survey methods is chang- ing and the airplane is replacing the man with the chain and theodo- lite. Nine overseas delegates are at- tending the conference, represent- ing air survey companies in Eng- land, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a sales organization in South America, This is the first time this annual conference has been held in Canada. WOOL SALE DELAYED Sydney, Australia, Aug. 17 (Reu- ters) --The Sydney wool sales, due to open at the end of August, may be delayed by a dispute over labor for sewing wool bags. The packers union demands that casual labor be recruited from a central pick-up point instead of at brokers stores as before, Butter Worth $3,500 Stolen In Montreal Montreal, Aug. 17 -- (CP) --Po- lice today reported - theft of 75 cases of butter, valued at $3,500 from Champion Products Limited on east-end Des Jardins Street. Manager E. St. Pierre said the burglars broke through a skylight and after looting the cold stor- age vault, used the firm's truck to carry the butter away. MINISTERS TO MEET Stockholm, Aug. 17 (AP).--The Foreign Ministers of the four Scandinavian countries will meet in Stockholm Sept. 8 and 9 to discuss questions in connection with the Paris meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Monday night. HARBOR MASTER DIES Parry Sound, Aug. 17 -- (CP) -- Harbor Master John Perks died Monday of a heart. ailment as he presented a Canadian red ensign to the United States cruise steamship - North American. 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