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I RC Ng YS Di Rik y gia CHARS A a BCRR AE : &. > OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922 i Measures Up in Tea Quality 100% of its Selling Cost had come upon In spite of hia Phy:ieal in- to Celebrate Tenth Anniversary Ld The light of truth him too abruptly. denial he was really ill firmity reacted on li: mind, His confidence failed hin. Iie had done Jackie a wrong that agonized him, but could he retrieva it? Shame and depression, bodily and mental, answered in the negative, "To ask her forgiveness is the least I can do," he said, forlornly. "And although I do not deserve it here you'll of course stay and get strong." Movies "Thanks, but I'm afraid not," he said languidly. "I had to come to New York to see about one of two 'business matters. I only heard on my arrival two days ago that you and Sam were married and living here. I thought I'd come and look you up before I leave." "Leave! After two days! really ought not to, Mervyn. "JACKIE" By COUNTESS BARCYNSKA Author of "ROSE O' THE SEA" & You CHAPTER XXXVIIX ed in a pleasant miracle. This man You « Virginia sat in the loggia of her house in Yonkers. To be precise it was Sam's house, If the term "clod" had ever fitted him, which is doubt- ful, he certainly had not manifested anything if the clod's stupidity in the choice of an abode for. Virginia and himself. It was an entirely de- lightful house, pleasantly old-fash- ioned, and its trelised front was just now breaking out into the delicate green and pink of japonica. A su- perb view of rolling woodland, sil- very river, and distant purple hills faced Virginia. She often compared this satisfying prospect with the view at Grange Sutton or Blenshay House, those trim but restricted dc- mesnes of her titled days, and not to their advantage. The fact is that Virginia had reverted to type and done so as naturally as a duck de- prived of water revels in it once more. She was thinking regretfully of Sam cooped'up on such a fine spring day in.his office in New York, un- able except at week-ends to share 'with her the best hours of this syl- van existence, when she observed a tall man slowly making his way up the drive. Sam was tall, but he was also stoutish, and she did mot there- fore jump to the conclusion that wishing for his presence had result- was very thin and he did not walk with Sam's firm tread. The brim of his hat shaded his face, and as the sun was in Virginia's eyes she did not apprehend who he was until he got within twenty yards of her. Then with a low cry of surprise and pain- ed concern, she started.out of her chair and hurried to meet him, "Mervyn!" she exclaimed. "Is it really you?" Carter smiled wanly as he kissed her. "No, only a caricature just now, Virgie. But I dare say I shall im- prove before long. Well, how are you? And how's Sam?" "Oh, never mind us," she replied fretfully. 'Come and sit down. You look frightfully ill!" She held his arm until he was safely ensconed in one of the deep chairs in the loggia. don't look fit to travel." © "Pm not fit to stand the push and bustle of a big city, my dear. Al- though I got a touch of malaria in Honduras I'm not really a sik man, At least not physically. 'Disgrunt- led' is the word that best expresses my particular state. The sea is the best remedy for it. The yacht's at moorings in New York Harbor. I've arranged to rejoin her at the end of the weck, 1 shall be glad to get away from civilization ag®n. I have- n't the heart for it now...When a man of my age gets the measles-- or falls in love -- it always takes it out of him...But I'm ever so glad to see you looking so happy, Virgie. b vi a diffegent woman." "I've shed my prickles, Mervyn." "They were only heraldic ones, conferred like your coronet, not in- herent." "Where have you been all this long while? It's nearly a year si I had a line from you. What has happen- ed to you?" "Nothing very much. 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"We all have illusions," he said | with a grave nbd. '""The worst of it | is we never recognize what they are | until they are gone. You're well off Virginia. Your illusion was easily | got over. It was only a case of mis { directed ambition. You thought you | were cut out for an exalted position | At least you've had the satisfaction of experiencing what it was like | You've had your triumphs. You've { been to the. top of the ladder you | set out to climb, You've gathered { your sheaf of social bays. You've | tasted the joys of achievement. And now you can look back without any | regrets, except for the loss of a few | years that yeu can easily spare { Some of us are not so fortunate." | Without any appreciable pause h« { added: "Do you ever hear of Jac { queline?" : The abruptness of the question ! took Virginia by surprise. She had | expected to approach that subject | only by subtle degrees. | "Yes," she stammered. "She's in { Paris. We saw her there--Sam and | I--in December. Not to speak to; | only at the theatre. She was jus! | a8 great a success there as in Lon- i don. They idolized her." She made an attempt to read his face, but it told her nothing. "From what I know of her," she said pointedly, '"'she's as little like- ly to do that as you are." "What you know of her! Wha! can you know? You've only spoken to her once in your life." "But I constantly hear of her. Ir- ene writes me, I had a long letter from her all about Jackie less than a week ago. But you must have heard from her, too." { "No, she hasn't written to me. Nor | I to her. Besides, I've been out of the track of letters." "I know she wrote to you through your bankers. To Callao." "We didn't touch there." "But surely her letter would be { forwarded on to wherever it was you | were going next?" { "Probably it was. But we | a complete change of route. After leaving © San Francisco we went through the Panama Canal and on DAUGHTER HAD T0 HELP MOTHER Now Can Do All Her Housework Alone Because Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Minn, -- "I saw in the E made qo2erah, Bernhardt, whote appastanes marked the artistic birth of films, an: ph Zukor, who persuaded her ter pictures. YEARS ago Sarah bern- hardt, famous French ac- , consented to make a picture of her e success, "Queen beth," for Adolph Zukor, en president of the Famous Players Film Company. That was: 1 know she will give it. else is there? certainly her contempt. in her voice that day when we part- ed, hearing it, deserves a better man than I. she had not come across him." But what Perhaps her pity; Scorn was I hear it still; IT am always Well," he sighed, "she It would be strange if, by this time, "Oh, don't talk like that, Mer- "SALADA" TEA. "STANDARD" THE WORLD OVER man vyn!" Virginia expostulated, "Where has your courage gone? Jackie loves you. Irene Is sure of it." "A woman's special pleading, Vir- ginia," was the hopeless rejoinder. "No, I can't go to her. It would hurt too much. And it would only distress her. But you can do me a favour, Will you write and tell her that I know all and that a am ~~ abject?" The relevancy of the word almost made Virginia lose heart. "But if T can bring you proof of what I say: that you are wrong: that she still cares for you? What then?" For one short moment an eager look came into Carter's face and then it died out. | "Don't raise false hopes, my dear. | Life doesn't pan out like a story | book. Its bitterness and disappoint | ments don't permit of happy end-! ings, That is* why. we drug our selves with pleasant fiction in order to forget painful realities for a lit- tle while." Virginia laid a soothing hand on the beginning of feature motion ictures as they are known to- ay. In March the entire motion icture industry and more than 110,000 theaters in the United States will celebrate the tenth an- miversary of feature pictures. It promises to be the biggest birth-: day party ever held by the movies. © When Mr. Zukor persuaded' Madame Bernhardt to lend her, great art to the industry the movies were dying on their feet The old nickelodeon had lost its mour and the flickering films were no longer a novelty. But, with the making of "Queen Eliza- " well known stage stars were ttracted to motion pictures and e art of the cinema immediately an upward trend to its bresent development. Movie pal-; 'aces supplanted the cheap picture houses and feature films of merit, the place of two-reelers. ew twenty million people see Jundon pictures every day in to Honduras instead of to Callao ss we intended." An exclamation of disappointment broke from Virginia "Don't distress yourself, old girl," Carter said. "I shall get Jrene's let- 'er some time or other. I don't sup- posc there was anything in it of vit. al importance." * "But there was! Jackie!" Carter gave a resigned sigh. "Now you're distressing me. You don't mean to, I know. It has been diffi- sult enough to drill myself to take only an extrinsic interest in Jackie. My enquiry about her didn't mean more than that." Virginia leant forward chair and spoke incisively: "Tell me, Mervyn. Do you care nothing more about her? Have you no love left for her at all? Hon- estly?" It seemea an age before he ans- wered and then she saw by his face the effort it cost him. "No, Virginia, I don't say that. I wish I could. I should be a happier man. Unfortunately I haven't the blessed capacity of deceiving myself. I envy the people who ean." "But you do deceive yourself! You made a hideous mistake about Jack- ie. All this long while you've been doing her a terrible injustice. That is what Irene explained in the letter you never got." But she spoke to deaf ears. Cart- er, with that dreadful picture of Jackie lying quiescent in the arms of an unspeakable man burnt into his brain, answered her with seeptical bitterness. "Irene may explain, but vince me that the mistake is is beyond her." "Then let me try," Virginia plead- ed. And though she had to do it un- der all the disadvantages of second- hand knowledge, regret for her un- charitable treatment of Jackie made her eloquent. She revealed Bow- man's sinister designs: accounted for his presence in her flat, and gave him the true explanation of the mis- erable situation that ensued there. She made every allowance for Jack- ie's obdurate refusal to defend her- self, and by implication reproached It was all abouf in her to con- mine his shoulder. | "In the Book of Life there [be many happy endings," she Iserted, with quiet conviction, { there would be no Paradise. | faith, Mervyn." | CHAPTER XXXIX Virginia had not exaggerated | when she said that Jackie was idol- | ized in Paris. London may have ad- opted her, but Paris chimed her as its own. Was she ot French? Were not her father and brothers | sacrificed on the altar of patriotiem? | Had not her mother been made a | fugitive by the sales Boches? These | credentials, supplied by Calderon in | advance, had ensured her a welcome. | Her charm, her beauty, and her tal- | ent had made of that. welcome a { triumph. From the first, Paris had acclaimed and adored her. Her op- ening season had had to be proleng- red. | She .drew crowds; she was the rage. { She had a multitude of friends all {of whom were her admirers, but her | virginal heart tolerated no lovers. She lived to give pleasure. Her dan- | cing was now better than ever; her dramatic ability seemed to grow and grow. Her reputation was not of the theatre alone. The 'Jacqueline hat" and the "Jacqueline shoe" had a success fou. Her hats csnecially ap- pealed to every Jari They re. volutionized. The; immense, they were pictures: and they brought grist to the mills of the couturieries of the Rure de la Paix and the Rue Castigilone, - Her taste in dress was approved in the Quar- tier St.-Germain and travestied at the Bal Bullier, At this time Jackie was devoting more and more of her large salary to charitable purposes. Her bene- factions were made covertly, but it soon came to be known that she never listened to a tale of pity un- sympathetically. Yet she was so lov- ed and esteemed that she was not unduly duped by those whose busi- ness in life it is to impose on the generous. Moreover, her common sense an an innate capacity for sift- ing the good from the bad and the false from the true safeguarded her from extortion. Her private reputa- tion was unassailable. Scandal pass- ed her by. Finding that her repu- tation was irreproachable, Parisian society opened its doors to her. 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