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a -- THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 1929 PACE SEVEN Ana Saved Garrard From the Girl wie Crime -- and E. Philli s Oppenheim "There are always posts going around for men with a tu: for athletics," she remarked; "polo or' slon"1s toreéd upon ofie i surveys . t result of a search among it§ readers conducted by the Manchester Gaurdian fop~thessix o By Brought Happ! [J pigens, best English hymns, For the firs golf secretaryships or something af . '|tivé places there was really .mo |: Copright by B. . that sort," The WIFE WHO FAILED : INTALMENT TWO Harvey Garrard, who has never given much attention to the business left by his father beyond drawing his regular al- lowance, is suddenly called home by the death of the ac- tive partner and faces a finan- cial crisis in the old-establish- ed leather pouse which no one imagined could exist. He finds that unless he ¢an raise thaus- 'ands almost overnight he is likely to become bankrupt with no plan to tlurn for a livelihood. Mildred his wife, absolutely refuses to help him, being en- tirely out of sympathy with her busband and taunting him with the flat declaration that she married him to be. sup- ported in luxury. As taough in response to the change in his wife there was a dis- tinct difference in Harvey's own tone and manner, The slight apole vgeut Kiuulluess pussed sol wis tace, He reacoed vut bls nand icp a cigarette and lit it, 'A'ne lingers whicy struck the match were per- lecuy sieady, us Lone clear aad Meu valanced, "Phychologically," he admitted, "Ayour attitude is interesting, Af- or all, 1 don't know toat it sur- Mises me very much, 1 shall, of cA urse, accept your aecision to ieuu #» neitoer your deqds of this house. Nevertheless 0 gel bounq to point out to you, in our joint interests, that there is just: & chance if 1 succeed in rais- 10g j\his money that megus may. be tous of meeting the crisis. If, on the g'ther hand, our engagements are mot met the day after tomorrow there seems to be no alternative but pk ukruptey." Hp Forbids Wife to Talk "Rud pish!" she scoffed. #Belid ie me, it is nothing of the sort" he protested, "I have per- paps beet a litle clumsy in break- 'ng this thing to you, and am sure hat you have not had time yet to understand, what it means, "It upom reflection," he begged, 'you should! change your ming, let ne hear fiom you before § o'- clock tomorow morning. I shall ve leaving the house at that time." She laughad hardly. "I am aboy't as likely to change ny mind,'" she told him, "as you 're to redeem ithe fortunes of your wretched busimess." Upon the thzushold, with his fin- gers upon the handle of the door he :urned around, His expression had oecome harder. 'His tone wag sev- wre, "There is one tiiing I insist up- on, Mildred," he suid; "until this matter is settled ppe way or the other, I forbid you - to breathe a word of what has pussed between " "Forbid!" she scog¥ed. "I use the word mdvisedly," he assured her, "A carelei\s word from you might ruin all my efforts. Credit is one of the great factors in the commercial wowld and at present the House af! Garrard stands where it did. If vu ase in- considerate enough to Lwetray my gonfidence to any living person you would deserve what may be coming to you--and more, 1 neither ask for nor expat any kindness or sympathy from you. "What I have asked for fm mat- srial things you have réfueed. I accept your decision but.I forbid you absolutely and emphatic [ly to breathe one word of anything I have sald to anybody until L give you permission." The half-scornful retort Jed away upon her lips. ~ She looked into the face of a man who 'was a stranger to her. He waited forx' a second or two and then departed, closing the door behind him 'leasy- Ing her listening to his level fool steps as he crossed the corridor and entered his own room. Then she collapsed once more: upon the couch, her head buried among the cushions, She began to tear in pieces with suock convul- sive movements a lace handker- chief which she had been holding doubled w in her hand. LJ LJ It was very nearly 5 o'clock when Harvey re-entered the palat- fal warehouses of Garrard & Gar- rard in Bermondsey and made his way up to his private office. Great- orex, seeing him enter, through the glass partition of his own room, hastily abandoned his work and followed him up. "You have not forgotten, sir," he ventured a litle nervously, "that tomorrow our acceptances must be advised?" "I have not forgotten," was the calm reply. 'I am endeavoring to make the necessary . arrange= ments." "Bring me the private ledger and nll the rest of the trade journals you can find," he directed. "No one need wait. I suppose I can let myself out." "There is a spring lock on the outside door, sir," Greatorex re- plied. "You will have nothing to do but to open it from this side and to close it firmly. The watchman will not be on duty till midnight. After that time he visits the place every hour. If you will excuse me, sir, I will get you the ledger and the journals." The manager disappeared for few minutes, When he returned his employer was smoking a cigarette and reading one of the trade pap- ers. Anxious though the former was, there was something about Harvey's manner which precluded direct questioning. "Are you sure that I could be of no assistance, sir?" he persisted. "There may be items in the private ledger which you would scarcely understand, My time fis entirely my own, and I can stay as late as fou wish." pearls nor tae| "I have a few calculations to make," he said, "and I am rather a slow thinker. I should prefer to be alone, - Every one can leave as usual. T will let myself out." Finds Visitor Dead Greatorex, with some reluctance, left the office, closing the door be- hind him, Harvey, for an hour or more, . studied the private ledger and afterward pored over the pile of trade journals which had been placed upon his desk. It was not until long after he judged from the silence below that the place was deserted that he closed them with a little sigh, and, rising to his feet, made his way out into the ware- houses. Aimlessly, without even conscious volition, he passed from one to the other of the great roms, and m-~unted the stairs to the fourth story, where lighter descrip- fong of merchandise were covered with white wrappers, giving out a ghostly effect in the dim light. Then, floor by floor, he descended to the cellars, where great heaps of hides reached to the ceiling. Again he was conscious of the ing the place two dayg before-- the sence of blight, ~ of inaction, as though effort had ceased and the very merchandise itself hecome os- sified. There seeemed to be no signs of any recent disturbance of the huge piles of skins or of the end- less stacks of cases. He entered the offices, handsome enough in their appointments and spacious enough for the offices of a bank. The books had all been put away, the place was. spotlessly neat, yet he had a fancy that here, too, lurk- ed the atmosphere of inertia. The dust had collected on a little hand- ful of carbon slips, many of the inkstands were empty, the blotting paper upon some of the desks pain- fully unused. He mounted once more to his own office, sat in his high-backed chair and, turning on a single light, met the steady gaze of that row of somberly painted men, the founders of the firm, There was not a weak face among them--men of commerce without a doubt, but men with {feals. As his eyes rested upon the aantral figure, a curious flood ot memories seemed to became re- lasged within him. He rememberd hip: father's solemn lecture to him on. the' day when he had left Oxford and 'the question of his future pro- fesst¥on was mooted. Some even of his "very words, or the sense of them, came back to his mind, "No man should ever allow him- self ty be ashamed," the great mer- chant: hag declared. "A nation's greatndss and prosperity must al- ways d epend upon the ability of its cit! in the crafts of manufac- ture amd barter. Each one of the professihuns is more or less ego- tistical. They lead to an individ- ual end., The man who by means of brains. and enterprise and indus- try succeads in building up a great commercial undertaking is adding directly tos the prosperity and wel- fare of the whole community, Your grwet-grandfather, your grandfather and I have built up here the mst renowned business of its sort in \the country. We have done =o 'honorably, with clean hands, and to the benefit not only of ourselves lyet of the country at large. Our abject has been not only to make a {lortune but to make it in such a way that no one is the worse for our mtosperity. "We have sucaeeded and we are proud of our sucgess. Therefore your grandfather amd I and all who have been assocaifled with the de- velopment of. this business regard it with veneration .tnd respect. If it is your desire to join us, you must do so with soipething of the same spirit. You must throw away any unworthy ideas pou may have imbibed as to the ré&¥ative dignity of commerce the prediessiong and an idle Mfe, and you must come to your work with price in it and of it.' i Harvey shook his head. His absorption in the} past con- feeling | which he had experienced on enter- {over the recumbent figure, "Let there be no misunderstanding about this, Harvey: if the business is wound up, we separte. The pittance I have will barely support me" : tinued, leading him indeed Into an almost lethargic state. "I have wasted my life," he con- fessed to himself, "I have broken my trust." The wallg of the room, nothwith- standing their stately proportions, seemed suddenly to contact. He flung open the dor and stepped out into the warehouse. He was In a state when .any slight material event was in a sense a relief to him, In the waiting room on the farther side of the floor some ore had left an electric light burning. He made his way toward It, entered and in, Decidedly here wag something unexpected, Seated ip an easy chair with a newspaper upon his knee, his hat and a small dispatch case upon the table by his side, was an eldeily man, a complete strnger to him, apparently fast asleep. He racked his brains without being able to remember that any visitor had been announced. 'Hullo!' he exclaimed, taking a step forward. "If you've been waiting to see me, I'm awfully sorry to have kept you like this." There was no reply. He ap- proached a little nearer and bent His interest, at first casual enough, he- came suddenly acute, He made a brief examination, then drew back with a stifled exclamation of hor- ror, The man whom he had thought asleep was dead. AFTERWARD it always seemed to Harvey that his first action should have been to summon a doc- tor. As a matter of fact, the. idea never occurred to him. His im- mediate Impulse was to, discover the identity of the dead man. He felt in his breast coat jocket and drew out a letter case. It was singularly empty except for a book of stamps, a page torn out from an A.B.C. timetable giving the trains between Paris and London, and a couple of business cards. He stood under the light and studied these latter anxiously: R, EBENEZER B. SWAYLE The Tannery House Johns River Connecticut ' and in the left-hand corner simply the word "Hides." He turned them over and over carefully. There was no Indication whatever as to the man's London address. He felt in his breast coat jacket and, noticing for the first time that there was a small key in the lock, he opened it and drew out hand- ful after pandful of parchment doc- uments neatly secured together with elastic bands. Save for these and a few samples of leather the box was empty. There was no- where any indication as go the man's abode in London, or the whereabouts of his friends. Harvey had entered the room in a numbed state, a condition of mind which had largely discounted the shock of his discovery. With every moment, however, his prain grew clearer and he bhe- gan to realize more fully exigen- cles as well as the horror of the situation. He moved toward the telephone, intending to ring up the police, On pis way he glanced, carelessly enough at first, at the neatly ar- ranged sheaves of parchment which he had 'taken from the dis- patep box. The sight of some fig- ures in the corner of the topmost one attracted hig attention. He paused and, examining It more closely, gave a little start of surprise. It was a United States Treasury bond of the value of five thousand dollars, He went through the sheaf rap- idly. Each one appeared to be of the same denomination. The pac- ket slipped from his fingers, He turnaad and looked almost suiltily at, the figure in the chair. The eyes were still hideously open, but they were already glazed, set in' the un- seeing star of death, He found himselt trembling from head to foot. For the first time in his life he realized what the station he entered the refresh- ment room and drank a whisky and soda. A few minutes later he retraced his steps into the station yard, called a taxicab and was driv- en home, ing in his study grate, hig favorite evening newspapers laid out upon the table, whisky and soda upon the sideboard. The room itself wis an epitome of the small luxuries of life. The engravings which bung upon the wall, though few in num- ber, formed part of a rare and val- uable collection. The specimens of jade statuary --Harvey had been a collector tor a time--were unique. There was a model by Rodif, en anonymous pronze Verns, concerning which a famous critic had writen half a coi- umn of praise in the Times, The Persian rug which stretched across the floor had been bought at Christie's after the severest com- petition, There were two, paintings by Greuze hanging one on each side of an electric lamp in a dimly 1it recess of the rom and one old mas- ter, a reputed Andrea del Sarto, also gleamed in the shadows. Harvey helped himself to anoth- er whisky and soda and threw him- self into his chair. His thoughts traveled fearsomely backward. With a 1itle shiver, he reflected that he had crossed the Rubicon. By this time it was possible that the watchman had completed his tour of the warehouses and made his gruesome discovery. To all intents and puropses the die was cast. The bonds were locked up in his desk. He had be- come a thief, He closed his eyes and leaned back, exhausted, When he opened them again it wag to the sound of his wife's voice. She was standing a few yards fear was--nervous, irrational fear. at the :houlders, coronet of diamonds. garding with distaste his morning clothes and crumpled linen. He was shaken by a mingled spasm of mental and physical terror. The fiagers which had turned over the bonds were shaking. With almost incredible sudde: | ness a complete change took ple in his mental and physical cond tion. He felt himself perfect: cool and alert prepared for som form of action, the nature of whic had not at that moment oeccurre« to him. He stepped first out inte the warehouse and listened. There was not a sound to be heard. Then he glanced at his wateh. Tt was five and twenty past 10, ana the watchman, he remembered, would not be on duty before mid- night. He returned to the waiting room, closed the door behind him, and with hig back to the horrible figure on the chair he counted the bonds with methodical care, packet after packet. They were all of the value of five thousand dollars, twenty in each sheaf, and ten sheafs in all. He laid them down te look at the dead man, He appeared to be anywhere from 70 to 75 years of age, and his clothes alone would have fied him as an American. | The Million He Needs. Once more Harvey searched his pockets and the pocketbook with- out discovering anything which could convey the slightest intima- tion as to why this unfortunate swered with asperity. remember that with the Hertfordshires but I had to cancel that when I received your telephone message. to the Duchess of Leicester's musi- cal party." surb demand {dent:- night?" away, looking at him--a very bril- liant vision in her white satin eve- ning gown, a marvelous cloak open a necklace ana She was re- "Well," she asked anxiously Is there any news?" "There is no news," he answered 'The worst has not come yet, if "at is what you mean." She moved to the sideboard and slped herself to some soda water. e would have anticipated ner ants but she waved him away. "You dined out?" he inquired. "No, I dined pere alone," she an- "You may we wey dining I have been "Amusing?" "Scarcely that. The violinist was wonderful." "Won't you have a chair?" he invited, offering his own. She shook her head. "I am not stopping. I only came tell upnn the table and forced himself 10 soe it you ad anything to te "Nothing at present." i "You're not persisting in the ab- you made last "I have made other arrange- ments," he told her. i She toyed for a moment with her racelet, "It the business," she said, "is really in such a bad way, who is there who can possibly pull it round person should have visited the firm now that Mr. Armitage is dead?" of Garrard & Garrard at such an "Myself," he answered. "There hour, have remained in the waiting Is no one else." rom unannounced and, more ex- traordinary still, have been carry- "The affair is hopless, then?" "Well I would not quite say that, ing about him securities to such a I have spent a great many hours large amount, thinking over the conditions, 1 He abandoned speculation as be- 'know too little even now to an- ing for the moment profitless, re- nounce a definite opinion, but I placed the samples of leather in the dispatch pox, locked it and left the key upon the table, extinguished | the light and, with the packets of shall not accept the worst without a great effort." : His Wife Fails Him The curve of her lips was almost Treasury bonds in his hands, cros- scornful. sed the floor and entered his own! office, With the bonds stretched out in front of him, Harvey sat in his | high backed chair his mind concern "You don't really fancy, Harvey, that you could succeed as a man of affairs?" she asked. "A man never knows what he can do until he tries," he answer- ed in a vague sort of way with the ed didactically. moralities of the situation. =~ Like | many another man, he had always remained scrupulously honest be- "I hope, at any rate, that you will give me a few days' warning before any crisis occurs." she said. cause the temptation to dishonesty «I nave made up my mind that in had never assailed him. If he had seen a man drop a hundred-pound note he would have returned it without hesitation, If an acquaintance had Invited him to participate in a swindle cer- | tain to yield a large profit he would have refused with scorn. Here, however he seemed faced with considerations which confus- ed him. Tomorrow, without some sort of miraculous ald such as seemed in those few bewildering moments to have presented itself, he was not only forced to endure a great shame himself, but to bring dishonor upon the memory of those old men whose stern faces looked down at him. now through the gloom and whom he could imagine turning in their grayes at the bare thought of the present crisis. Ignorant though he was of the practical side of such matters, he realized even then that to use the bonds in any way, even as security, was to run a desperate risk. Nev- ertheless, he knew from the first that he was about to attempt it. If he haq failed in his trust to- ward those who had built up the fortune which he had allowed to slip trough his fingers, here, at any rate, should be his attempt at atone ment. The purpose, dimly formed at first in his mind, became more ana more definite as the silent mom- ents of his vigil passed. Finally be locked up the ponds mn his drawer, t-rk down his hat from a peg, walked across the empty warehouse without a glance toward the tragi- cally silent waiting room, descend- ed the stairs and let himself out in- to the street. . He made his way toward London Rridee, meeting scarcely a goul, In that case I shall live abroad. It would be beggary, of course, but even beggary in the south of France is better than - beggary here." "You will always be free to choose." "You understand clearly, Har- vey," she tontinued, "that if this happens I shall leave you." He looked at her curiously, All his married life he had known her to be a selfish woman, but he was interested now in pushing his con- clusions concerning her to the fur- thest limit, "I understand that," he assent- ed. "You will have, let me see, two thousand a year from your settle- ment, say a thousand a year from the sum which you obtain for the house, and if you sell some of your jewels, say another thousand a year. That will not he positive bexgary." "Tt is at least next door to It," she replied. "My own position," he reflected, "appears to be less assured, 1 have, unfortunately, no settlement, no house, no Jewelry, and the small income I derive under my mother's will will be claimed by the credit- ors. There are a few polo ponies, but the estate, I presume, will also claim those. I am very much afraid that my own income will be exactly what I can earn." She shrugged her shoulders. "You are very much to blame," she gaid, "for not having looked into your affairs before." "Very much," he agreed." "For both our sakes," she added emphatically. "I shall not find it easy," he con: tinued, "to earn money." He found s small wood fire burn- fu "Three hundred a year and a free lunch," he murmured. © » ° "In any case," she sald firmiy, "let there be no misunderstanding about this, Harvey: if the business is wound up, we separate. The pit- tance I have will barely support The smile which came to his lips, the little laugh which followed, were the greatest relief he had ex- perfenced during the last few hours, She loked at him, leaning back in his chair, with the lines of mirth deepening about his eyes, in cold surprise, "Your sense of humor seems to me slightly distorted," she ohser- ved. "At any rate, now that we clearly understand each other, I am going to bed." i She picked up a fan of wond-' erful ostrich feathers. He sprang' jo bh feet and opened the door for er. "I do mot' know Mildred," he said, "that there is ome of your very admirable qualities which ap- peals to me more than your frank- nes, Let me set your mind at ease. our possessions are entirely your own. I shall never beg a ped under your roof or a crust from your kitchen." "Don't be melodramatic," enjoined shortly, "Sarcasm sults your style better, Good night!" (Continued Tomorrow) -------------------- 'GOOD OLD HYMNS' STILL FAVORITES Manchester Guardian Finds Old Favorites Overwhelm- ing Against More Modern Music she (By Thos, T. Champion, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent | London, Eng., Sept. 16.--Eng- lish people remain as conservative in their hymn preferences as in challenge to Abide with me, - ' EE +0 God, our help. When 1 survey, Rock oft Ages. wr XX Jesu, Lover of my som, These, of course, are hymns of the "good old" type. It is rather curious that hymns of the "good new" type had rather a struggle to make any showing at ail in the table of preference, Some people mentioned Blake's "Jerusalem," and a few spoke up for "He who would valiant be." Of course neither of these hymns are "new" in the sense of having been writ- ten in recent times, but they are "new" in the sense of having first been included in really popular compilations within the last gen- eration or so. The Moody and Sankey type of | © hymn was almost entirely passed by. "Onward, Christian Soldiers" got a very poor vote which forti- fies one in the belief that it never would have been popular had it not been wedded to Sullivan's stirring tune. "The Sons of God goes forth to War," which Is a very much finer hymn of the same type, fared hardly better, It seems as ff pacifist sentiment will be trium- pacifist sentiment will be triumph- ant in future hymnology, Hardly anybody had a kind thought for the "seasonal" hymns, such as we use at Faster, Christ- mas and harvest-time. "O come, all ye faithful," for example, was mentioned very rarely, This is curious in a way, for it is doubtful if any hymn is more common to congregations of every creed than is "Adeste Fideles." Jt is sung with equal fervor by the Catholic, the Methodist and the Salvationist. The same cannot be sald even of sich songs as Te Deum and Mag- nificat. The old-style, emotional type of hymn also suffered eclipse. There were few votes, for instance, for "Nearer, my God to Thee," or even for Newman's "Lead, kindly Light." "Hark, hark my soul," which used to be considered 'so lovely," was entirely neglected. Criticizing, like charity, should be- many other matters, This conclu- gin at home, . REINALD WERRENRATH Internationally famous baritone will be heard from radio station CKFRB on Sat., Sept, 21st, 9.00 P.M., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, on a Rogers Batteryless network feature, MR. BRIAND'S PLAN (Quechee Evenement) The objective of the French Prime Minister is to organize the countries of Europe in a Confederation or eos operatively, so that they can put up a fight in the economic field against the. competition of Americans or Russians on the markets of the world, The fact that Mr, Stresseman, the German representative, approved of Mr. Briand's plan is almost a guar- antce that its realization is possible, and 'that this union would put. 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