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PAUL BRERETON, a famous wealthy artist. At 48, as far as a man may, he understands woman. Certainly far more than LIEUTENANT RONNY VEâ€" VYONS8$, who is very much in love. ... §ONIA, who may not have been much of an actress but had other and perhaps greater qualities. DKRK. MARY BARNWELL was not merely a good doctor, but a charming woâ€" man.. . She was in love with Brereâ€" ton, and the woman in the picture which Paul Brereton painted in Paris. CHAPTER ‘VII FAIRY GODMOTHER Brereton was in his studio when Rayâ€" mond Murray arrived, and the two men wore still discussing the picture he was working on when the gong anâ€" nounced lunch. "It‘s very nice of you, Mr. Brereton, to ask me to lunch. I wanted to see you on a business matter. "Business! After lunch, my boy." "We‘ll have coffee under the copper beach," Brereton said at the end of the meal, and to that pleasant corner of the lawn they adjourned for their talk on the "business matter‘"‘ on which Murray had come. "To be quite frank, the whole thing is a bit of impudence on my part," beâ€" gan the young actor. "I say, what lovely coffee!" Brereton smiled. "Go on!" "When they opened the big and very hideous cinema in the town, they closed the old one. Since then it has been derelict. My idea is to take it and run a repertory company there " "It has a stage?" "Oh yes. It was originally built as a theatre. There are dressingâ€"rooms and the accommodation isn‘t too bad at all. I‘ve seen the man who owns it, and he turned out to be a very decent sort of fellowâ€"keen but reasonable." "And you want money?" "In a way. I want a guarantee at the bank for an overdraft of four hunâ€" dred." PAGE ETX "And what do I get out of it?" Brereâ€" ton asked as he lit a cigar. "Precious little, sir. But I‘m quite cerâ€" tain that I can make a do of the thing Linda Keen is willing to come, and I know an interesting little actress called Sonia Petanelâ€"she was in the last show with me.. And, as you know, London is full of outâ€"ofâ€"work, compeâ€" tent actors. We should attempt to do worthwhile plays, and, of course, you could have a say in their choice. It wouldn‘t actually cost you anythingâ€" in all probability." put in. "Precisely. But I can see that it doesn‘t appeal to you." "As a business proposition it‘s far too oneâ€"sided. I ge§ nothing out of it, and may very easily lose four hundred." "I told jyou that it was a piece of "I told , impudence "Not at all. I find it most interestâ€" ing.. How do you propose to pay these actors?" "That would have to be discussed. My idea is that after the fixed chargtjs‘ have been metâ€"rent, royalties, stage, carpenter, props, costumes, wigs and so forthâ€"the balance would be divided equitably between us. I should proâ€" duce most of the plays myself." "I think it an interesting experiment It is very doubtful, though, how the people round here would react to it." "I‘ve thought that out. The bulk of the middleâ€"class people are more or less dependent on London for their amusement, and would probably come to us in preference to the pictures." "But the bulk of the peopleeâ€"the people you rely on to fill your cheaper seats?" "To a great extent their minds are cinemaâ€"soddenâ€"they prefer their salâ€" mon readyâ€"cooked, out of a tinâ€"but surely there are many who would preâ€" fer a play where they can see the actual actors. The great advantage of the scheme is that it would provide work for eight to ten people who need it rather badly. It‘s very good of you to listen to me. I had no earthly justiâ€" fication for worrying you." "My dear Murray, I‘m very interâ€" ested. T‘ll do it for you with pleasure." "I sayâ€"â€"but I thought you‘d just turned the dea â€"down. It really is very decent of you. I hardly know how to thank you, sir. It was only when I attempted to outline the scheme to you that I saw how impudent it was." â€" You‘ll probably make success of it, and it won‘t cost me penny. Good l_uck}" EmE After discussing the prosaic details of the business side of the project the two men shook hands. wWithin half an hour Murray was back with a bank document for Brereâ€" ton‘s signature. "I rang up Ahrenstein who owns the theatreâ€"I‘ve already ceased to think of it as a derelict cinemaâ€"and he is willâ€" ing to let me have it on a six months‘ agreement, That commits us to payâ€" + b % i % * 4 b 4 * c % % y 4 *4 + *4 *4 y *4 . * * v L * If M \ L. h 4 *4 * 4 ' +\ * * *A ** » ,I, * 3 K488 *4 % ‘Wfifl)f E INSURANCE TIMMINS REAL ESTATE “ rl?fggfffffff/fl,///ff//’/f’/ff’l/,,I,/,fffleff/zf s‘Sfi‘ Unless you went broke," Brereton PULBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Our long years of experience will assure you of correct information, fair rates and prompt claims attention. Do not take the risk of driving your car or truck without proper protection.. We also sell Fire, Sickness Accident, Life Insurance and Real Estate We also SULLIVAN NEWTON the pictures." the peopleeâ€"the fill your cheaper } BRERETON ", ) UNDERSTANDS EE J \ WOMEN Bu v}‘m ,-"l(sjlg | (Est. 198132) 21 PIXE sT. NORTH THMMINX® added doubtfully. "Don‘t worry about the rent." "It‘s going to be tremendous fun," Murray said enthusiastically. . "The theatre comes out into the country in search of an audience!" ing rent for six months, of course," he Segior Partner "Now go right ahead and let me know from time to time what happens. I shall probably be in Brittany in July â€"I usually amâ€"â€"â€"but I shall be back in the early autumn if all goes well." That evening, strolling over the Comâ€" mon in the twilight, Paul Brereton met Dr. Barnwell again. At one point in his walk the path crossed the main road and as he reached it a car pulled up. "Hallo!" she greeted him. "I suppose I cannot give you a lift?" *"No ‘thanks.. ‘This is exercise.. ° I feel rather lonely toâ€"night, doctor," he said with a smile. "You looked it," she replied. "I sudâ€" denly saw you waiting on the gragss verge for me to pass and, before I reâ€" cognized you, you gave me an impresâ€" sion of loneliness." "We‘re all lonely," he said. "Have you no prescription for it." ‘"None," <she said. "I‘m afraid that medicine caunot help you. I suppose you appreciate that you are a godsend in â€"this community?" she added with smile, "Go on. IT‘ll buy it," he said . "You‘ve given them all a new topic. They all wonder why . . . you gwe lonely." "And you share in the wonder." "Of course. I‘m a woman. It‘s sheer vulgar curiosity. I confess that I turnâ€" ed up the reference books about you at my club." "And what did you find?" "Nothing. A great deal about your art, of course. But the ordinary human details were lacking." "Are you suggestng that I am not human?" "No. I might have, but you gave your humanity away this evening." Cloh?" "In the confession that you were lonely." He nodded: "The reference books are quite right, you know. The only side of me that is of any importance is my art,." "Not to your friends, surely?" "You see, doctor, art is a most exactâ€" ing mistress. She brooks no rivals." Then the doctor did a most unproâ€" fessional thing, indeed, not to put too fine a point on it, a rather vulgar thing: she winked. Brereton smiled: "We und each other rather well, doctor." ‘"‘By the way, I hear that young Murâ€" ray is starting a Reportory Company in the town. After they had seen the film of the week, they walked through the town to her house.. The lingering daylight still suffused the western sky and there was a sedative quiet in the evening. They parted at her door. "A very pleasant evening," he said. "And I thank you for it." "Ring me up if you feel lonely," she said. "As you said, we understand. each other." "Thank you very much," he said again. There were no messages waiting for her, and she sighed with relief as she settled in the lowchair of her sittingâ€". room. On the table by her side was pile of brochures sent to her by one of the tourist agencies. She was glancing idly through one of the pamphlets when she suddenly saw his name. It was in connexion with a small village a few miles from Dinard called Ste. Jacut. It was, she read, the haunt of artists, and among those who visited it reguâ€" larly wasâ€"Paul Brereton. Several of his most famous pictures,, she read, had been painted there, _ Jacut de la Mer. It was an attractive name. They might even meet there, and with such a widelyâ€"different backâ€" ground he might well prove to be a different man. They understood each other, he had said. CHAPTER VIII ENTER sSONIA At the side of the stage of the Cheriâ€" ton Theatre, which, prior to its effecâ€" ment by the new, larger, and mord "super‘" establishment along the High Street, had been known as the Coroâ€" net Cinema, Paul Brereton stood watchâ€" ing the rehearsal of the first act of "The "We understand | The scene was between two of the \ members of the new companyâ€"George Haslett, a man of perhaps fifty, who ‘evidently knew his job, and, incidentâ€" 'ally his lines, and the little brunette, . Sonia Petanel. "That‘s not quite right, my dear," Haslett said, and glanced to where Raymond Murray sat with the script on his knee. "You keep on forgetting that you dislike him, Sonia," Murray said. "I get you! Let‘s have unother stab at it!" she said. This time it was betterâ€"clearly a young woman who could learr. She was, Brereton watching from the wings decided, extremely attractive. She was wearing a nondescript coat and skirt, and had taken little, if any, trouble, with her appearance. . Nevertheless there was that in her face which held Brereton‘s attention, and he was A man who knew a great deal about the human face Her large, brown eyes were set rather wide apart, and the line of her neck was exquisite. One cannot capture a girl‘s face in wordsâ€"a mere category of features conveys very littleâ€"but, one day Brereâ€" ton meant to paint Sonia Petanel. He saw her in a soft brown velvet frock, with head aver.ed, showing that exâ€" quisite line of her neck and face. When the rehearsal was over he walked through the town with Murray. "What do you think of Sonia?" Murray asked. "Wherever did she get the idea that she was an actress?" ‘"You don‘t like her, then?" "On the contrary, she is most atâ€" tractive. She‘ll want careful coaching, though." Murray nodded:"She‘ll be okay on the night. There‘s really very little in the part and she‘s so easy to look at. She‘s had rather a thin time lately. Sick mother, I believe By the way, the renovations are not going to cost such an awful lot after all." Brereton watched the dress rehearsal from the front of the house. There were one or two hitchesâ€"with the exception of Haslett none of them was word perfectâ€"but, on the whole, the play went with a swing. Sonia Petanel was a pert, slick maid, with one rather good scene with Haslett. She was, Brereton had already decided, an actress of ordinary ability but, as Murray had said, she was extremely easy on the eye. It was not that she was prettyâ€"there was far more than mere prettiness in her faceâ€"but there was a wistful quality in her expression which left one wondering. Brereton noticed that Murray‘s Jevonsâ€"the boy in the‘ RAF.â€"who was sitting near to him, was watching her the whole time she was on tha stage. He had been invited to the tea which was served in Murray‘s dressing room after the rehearsal but he slipped away. He fell to thinking of Sonia Petanel again @s he walked up the shadowy lane to the Common . She had struck some queer, insistent chord in his memory. She was quite young. Eighâ€" teen? Perhaps, nineteen. Little more than a child, judging by that touch of wistfulness he had noticed in her face. One of the maids brought in the small pot of china tea which constiâ€" tuted his afternoon meal and this was so contrary to the usual practice that he asked where Miss McKechnie was , *"*She‘s in the housekeeper‘s room, sir. She doesn‘t look too good sir, begâ€" ging your pardon." "You mean she‘s ill?" ‘*"Yes; sir. But don‘t say I said so, sir, please. She wouldn‘t like it." "All right, Mary," he said. Afterwards he went to investigate. He found his housekeeper sitting huddled in a low chair with a shawl round her shoulders. "T‘ll ask Dr. Barnwell to come up," he remarked after some preliminary questions jwhich drew singularly little information. "She‘s a very pleasant woman." "I know the body." ‘"You‘d be better in bed," he advised. "I would not," she assured him. "Your dinner will be ready at the usual time, in any case, Mr. Brereton." "HE‘s GOING TO BRITTANY" "That‘ll be twice in as many weeks you‘ve been to see me," the old Scotsâ€" woman said, when Dr. Mary paid her call. as I do. You‘ll be Monday?" n{ "Of course. The whole town will be there." "L hope so. By the way,. I‘m giving a party after the show in the King‘s Arms. Would you care to come?" But you don‘t know Libby COPYRIGHT the theatre on ,"‘‘ he advised. assured him. v at the usual pPORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO "I‘d love to," she said without hesitaâ€" tion. "I‘d heard about the party of course, but had given up hope of being invited." "I must go. I‘m already late for my surgery. Goodbyeâ€"and thank you for asking me to your party." The waitingâ€"room was full when she reached home and it was much later than her usual hour when the last paâ€" tient had gone. It was tiring weather and the doctor looked a little jaded. She sighed as she turned out the light on he# desk, and went through to the dining room where a feminine meal of egg mayonaise and a half botâ€" tle of dry white wine had been left for her. There were still two patients ‘she had to visitâ€"one of them in a Ivillagc seven miles awayâ€"and she was ‘suddenly conscious that the world was full of things she would rather do than turn out the car and visit those two patients. But they were both expecting her, waiting for her, needing her. She gripped herself and a few minutes later her car was breasting the hill which led out of the little town on the side opposite to the common and Cheriton House. She was kept at the cottage out on the bleak hillside far longer than she had anticipated. The husband was a farm labourer, and his wife was desâ€" perately ill. For unending minutes, Dr. Barnwell‘s steady hand held the balance of life and death, and when at length she was able to leave her patient to the care of the village nurse she was fully aware that if she had ever done a worthâ€"while iob of work she had done it that night. It was past midnight when she pulled up her car at the top of the hill above the little town where, for eight years, she had worked and lived. A dozen still lights marked the length of High Street. She seemed utterly alone. The man and woman she had left in thé cottage were grateful in their tongueâ€" tied wav, she knew, but they were strangers. She was alone. The following morning she rang up a medical agency in town and told the secretary that she was going away on Friday week and wanted a locum for three weeks. Ten }one Boss (to So vOu wal 31 Wilson Avenue Coal Dealer CLEAN FUEL CLEAN SERVICE OFFICE: 141 Main Ave,, Timmins PHOXNXE 583 28 First Avenue Timmins and District business establishments enjoy a good patronage from the residents of this community because through the years they have earned the confidence of. the public and are coâ€"operating to retain it. You are invited to inspect the values offered by the firms listed below. _ NEW AND USED PARTS FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS 18 Mattagami Boulevard Phone 1351â€"W Ask for coupons redeemable on Bread and Pastry. Try our Famous Doâ€"Nuts and French Pastry National Bakery Mike Mirkovich W re cl ce r and G 1d r a ge General Building Contractor Coal and Wood Dealer forty COAL AND WOOD DEALERS AUTO SUPPLIES The Home of Better Bread PASTRY AND CAKES OUR SPECIALTY Pigeon Auto J. Van Rassel SAVE MONEY Schumacher Bakery (To be Continued) antâ€""Oh, some very wonderful Leamington Post. â€"five is the hour appointâ€" Bread 8¢ Loaf hot day, and the train was owly. As the train stopped , an old gentleman shouted "Shall I have time to BAKERIES EXPERIENCED schumacher v. voung applicant)â€" iob? Had any experiâ€" Phone 658 â€" M Phone 1445 Phone 1060 The annual meeting of the Timmins } Tennis Club was held in the town hall on Mav 12th, 1922, and the reports for the vear 1921 showed a very satisfacâ€" tory year. ‘There were 64A members of the club, 44 of these being active memâ€" bers in 1921. The officers elected for 1922 were:â€"C. S. Carter, president; Miss B. Gowan, viceâ€"president; W. S. Macpherson, â€" secretaryâ€"treasurer; C. | Russell, W. O. Langdon, S. A. Caldbick, Geo. Carson, executive. _ The provincial government did not lalways give Connaught a fair deal, as may be noted from the following in The Advance of May 17th, 1922:â€" \‘"Thanks to the Woolings Co., and the St. Maurice Lumber, and no thanks to | the Provincial Government there is a |bridge at Connaught. Appeal was made spring to the Northern Developâ€" |ment Branch regarding this bridge, but |there was absolutely nothing doing. |The Woolings Co., and the St. Maurice ‘|Co. then went to wosk themselves, each ( spending $500.00 on the bridge to make t‘it safe and passable. Now it is reâ€" '|ported that the Northern Development ‘‘Branch has sent word to the effect |that even if the comnanies did spend ‘|good money on the bridge the province 'n still owns it. In other words, the proâ€" § vince takes the attitude that the Conâ€" |naught neople can sink or swim in the ‘|matter of bridges but the only reâ€" , | sponsibility the province assumed is the ~| responsibility of claiming ownership to | anything that has a value, irrespective . l of whose money created the value. This _{ of course, is the usual Ontario Governâ€" || ment attitude, but there does not seem | to be any particular reason for makâ€" , |ing it apparent in so raw a manner as |was evidently used in the Connaught . |case." There has been not only a {change of government since the days of 1922, but also a change of attitude. It is worth remembering that any other . [change of attitude will eventually reâ€" ; | sult in a change of government. That the way things work in this country. stt d P P P BAAA CAAA L â€"AQ C M AL «# T wenty Years Ago From the Porcupine Advance Fyles The following from The Advance of May 17th, 1922, should be of general interest, referring as it does to the town athletic park:â€""At a meeting of the Timmins Amateur Athletic Assoâ€" ciation executive (more generally known as the Grounds Committee) it was deâ€" cided last week to build at once two new grandstands on the athletic grounds. Both the new siands will be back of the catcher‘s position of the baseball field, one stand being on the other side, back of the catcher. Each stand will be 100 feet long and will have three tiers of seats. It is figured that the two stands will provide comfortâ€" Lynch Appliance and Furniture Co. 39 Third Avenue Phone 1870 Exclusive dealers for Westinghouse True Tempcrature Controlled Reâ€" frigerators, Electric Ranges, Radios, Washers, Vacuum Cleaners, Etc. 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It is likely that a small extra charge will be made for seats in the grandstands so as to provide the necesâ€" sary funds for roofing them in. It is expected that the new grandstands will be ready for use before May 24th. Work was commenced on Monday on the erection of one of the stands and it will be rushed to comuletion. . The same with the other stand. The new grandsiands will be a decided acquisiâ€" tion and will be still more useful and beneficial when covered over." The storv of the finding of the skeleâ€" ton of an unknown man in the bush near Kenogami Station was told in The Advance twenty vears ago. It was one of the tragedies of the Northâ€"a traâ€". gedy not altogether to be unexpected in this countryv, vet, thanks to good forâ€" tune, such incidents have been comâ€" paratively rare in this country:â€"*"Last week the remains of a man were found in the bush at Mileage 170, near Kenoâ€" gami Station, on the T. N.©. Some prospectors made the gruesome find and promptly notified the authorities. The medical authorities thought the body had been exposed for at least a year and possibly longer. The clothâ€" ing worn ‘by the dead man suggested that he had met death in the summer or spring time. From his clothing it would anpear that he was not a prosâ€" pector or a worker in the woods. Death was apparently due to starvation and exposure. The theory generally aceptâ€" ed is that the man was walking across country, probably from Kirkland Lake, and became lost in the bush. He colâ€" lapsed within a hundred yards of the railroad track. The man was about 35 vears of age, of medium build. He had three front teeth missing. Apart from these facts there is little in the way of description available by which the man might be identified. No papâ€" ers that would give a clue to his identâ€" FRANK KLISANICH (prop.) Where Good Friends Meet PHONE 788 Rudolphâ€"McChesney Lumber Co., Ltd. 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