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re THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929 And the Girl who Saved Garrard from His Crime -- i Garrard, who has mever given much attention to tbe business left by hig father deyond drawing his rather dowance, is suddenly called - ome by the death of the ac- tive partner and faces a finan- jelal crisis in the old-establisb- ed leather pouse which no one imagined could exist. He finds that unless he can raise thaus- ands almost overnight he is likely to become bankrupt with no plan to tlurn for a livelihood. y Mildred his wife, absolutely refuse. to belp him, being en- {tirely out of sympathy with (her husband and taunting him {with the fiat declaration that {she married him to be sup- !ported in luxury. , Closed in his office late at night, Harvey tries to find a solution to his problem and finally wanders around the deserted warehouse. In the !reception room he finds a, 'stranger dead in a chair. The man's papers show him to be Ebenezer Swayle, an Ameri- can business man, and Gar- rard finds $1,000,000 in ne-.. -gotiable securities in his pos- session--bonds which will set- tle all his financial worries. He succumbs to the tempta- tion and appropriates the se- curities. At home, his wife is having an fatimate friendship with Herbert Fardale,, a wealthy money lender. Now Go on With the Story "It seems a strange thing," Far- fale remarked, a few minutes lat- sr, "your husbang has not treated you with more confidence, He must have had some idea that this thing 'was coming on." There pave been very few comn- tidences between us for years," Mildred sighed. - "Harvey has had but one thought all his life and that has been to amuse himself. Bicng he loft the army he has done nothing but play polo and golf and tennis and indulge in a little yacht- Ing when he gets the chance, Yet he actually calls me selfish." "An idle life," her companion observed, "is a bad thing for any man. Couldn't stick it, myself, 'm down at the office at 9 o'clock svery morning and. I stay there till 8. I take a long. week-end some- times. That's all I allow myself, pesides a month at Monte. "But you are successful," she murmured, "and that is so wond- erful." "Moderately," he admitted, his tingers playing for a moment with » somewhat oberusive . monocle. "Not so easy to make money as it nsed to be, though. Every one's ut the same game and there aren't snoughp fools to go round." "perhaps it Harvey has to work it would do him good," she re- marked. "I hope he doesn't have 'to become a clerk or something of that sort." "Let me ask you something," he begged, leaning confidently across the table. "Supposing the tirm of Garrard goés down, shall you continue to live with your hus- band?" "Certainly not," she replied em- phatically. "I suppose 1 was fond of Harvey in the ordinary sort of way when we were married, but 1 married to be supported, and ff Harvey isn't able to do that, I shall leave him and get on as well as 1 can unon my wretched little settle- ment." . Betwnen ourselves, he confided. "1 think that is what you will have to make up your mind to. your husband doesn't like me. I've noticed that at Monte when I came across him in the Rooms. He would never have come to me for money if he hadn't been in desper- te straits." ' "I am afraid you are right," she sighed. "Of course the house in Curzon street is mine," she reflect- ed, after a moment's pause, "and I think I could claim some of the furniture." "Well, he declared. must be worth the £20.000. that's worth having" "The house alone best part of "I hope so, she assented. "of have to sell it. I souldn't possibly atford to live there. Besides," she went on thoughtfully, "it 1 did, Harvey might expect to go on living with me. No, I should bh better quite wway--a long, long distance away. [ think I ghall try to have a tiny rilla on the Riviera somewhere." "Steady on," he protested, "I shouldn't like you t be away from London all the year." She looked at him, critically at first and then tolerantly. There was a faint smell of soap about his slean-shaven face which she liked. His teeth were good. His tle and linen were well chosen, There was certainly - nothing objectionable about his personality, considering course I shall his probable bringing up and asso- ciates, He was a clever man too, finan plally. Every one admitted that. The capacity for making money, she decided. was the quality she wdmired most in men. "I might spend a month or two she said, In London sometimes," especially--" She hesitated. moment if not eloquent, rovocative. le. N "Go on," he begged. She glanced around. They were Copright surrounded by strangers. She pat- ted his hand lightly, almost affec- tionately. "You mustn't let me say foolish things," she enjoined. "I have en- joyed my dinner very much." "Would you care to go to a show?" he asked, after he had paid the bill. "We could telephone for tickets at one of the late things." She considered. the matter, glancing into the goldbacked mir- ror which she had withdrawn from her bag.! There were one or two little lines about her eyes which worried her, She shook her head regretfully. "I should love it" she sighed, "but I think I had better go home. I was out last night and the. night before, and I think with all this trouble to face I ought to take care of myself." He was a litle disappointed, put acquiesced sympathetically, "I may drive you home, at any rate," he suggested, after a mom- ent. "Of course you may,' she con- ceded graciously. "It you like, you can come in for just one-half hour. wouldn't be home until 11.0"clock. What. he does down at, the office till that time of night I can't ima- gine. He about business.' "Not the. practical side of it at any rate," Fardale agreed. "All the same, Mildred, I don't think For eyes which were usually cold hers were for the at least She leaned across the that your husband's a fool." "Isn't he?" she rejoined 1nair- ferently. "I think that any man is a fool who gets into a mess like thik--especially when he has a wife to support. Shall we go?" They left the restaurant. Mr. Fardale distributing largesse a lit- tle blatantly, and drove to Curzon street in his very luxurious car. Mildred permitted him to hold her hand. T¥e half-dubious movement of his arm, as they gained the ob- security of Charles street. met, how- ever. with her prompt disapproval. "You know I don't like that sort of thing," she conplained. "You weren't always so particul- ar," he grumbled. "Do you remem- ber 'the night I drove you home from Monte Carlo to Cannes?" . #Whicp night?" she asked care- lessly. "Ought I to remmber it?" "Well, I don't know," he expos- tuated, releasing her hand and leaning back among the cushions. "It was the first time you ever let me kiss you. I thought you might have remembered." She laughed enigmatically. "No wise women ever let a man know how much she remembers," she confided. 'Please don't sulk, and perhapg it Harvey hasn't come in and you behave very nicely I may let you kiss me just once before you go. Here we are. Be careful before the servants. Don't let them hear you call me by my Chris- tian name." He followed her up the stairs and into her own sitting room on the first floor, She pointed to a chair and sank discreetly upon the couch with an exclamation oflan- gue. "Is your master home?" ghe asx- ed the butler. "Not yet madam," the man re- plied. "I don't know whether you were informed that he telephoned earlier in the day to say he would be late. Shall I serve coffee ' or: whisky ang soda here? She glanced towards He shook his head. "No more coffee, thanks." "Then put the whisky and soda on the side table, ghe directed. "It your master returns before Mr. Fardale leaves, ask him to come up. " Fardale. "Very good, madam, The man withdrew and returned in a few minutes with a decanter, some glasses, a bowl of ice and a syphon of soda water, which he arranged upon a side table. When he had once more departed, Far- dale, who had accepted, a cigarette, leaned back in his chair, and aban- doned his attempts at desultory conversation. He watched Mildred thoughtful- ly. He was not by any means a man inclined to grope behind the surface of things to any extent, but he found himself for a moment speculating as to this woman's outlook on life, On the Riviera, although she had her admirers and although there were few who ven- tured to compete with her in mat- ters to toilette and general extra- vagance, it was nevertheless Har- vey who was the popular member of the family. He was good-looking, he played all games well, and sometimeg pril- liantly; he had the reputation of being a tearless gambler and#his manners were at all times de- lightful. Men--the best men-- found him one of themselves, and women, for whom he seemed to have no sorfof weakness, were al- ways full of his praises. Yet here was a woman, his own wife too, who frankly proclaimed her in- difference. ! What was it she sought in men, he wondered, which Harvey Gar- rard Jacked? He, himself, for in- stance, was 46 years of age, his hair was a little thin on the top and his figure inclined toward em- bonpoint. He was never wholly at his ease in the social circle among which his birth and training scar- cely justified his inclusion. He was tolerated everywhere, as he shrewdly suspected, because of his wealth. He was not as a rule a sensitive man and in many res- pects he was content to buy his . | way. . With this woman. however, it was different, From the first, By E. Phill Harvey telephoned that he doesn't know a thing by . , Phillips Oppenheim when in her presence, he had been jealous of the gifts which other men possessed and he lacked. Her declaration as regards her hus- band soothed his vanity immense 1y, but also puzzled him. "Why are you so kind to me?" he asked abruptly. "Am I?" she murmured, draw- ing one knee a little way up and linking her long, tapering fingers around it. "Sometimes you com- plain." . He was suddenly conscious of an unusual fulness of the pulses, His speech was thick. An unmistak- able light flamed in his eyes as he looked across at her. "Yes, I complain," he admitted, "because I want more than I dare to ask for--more, perhaps, than you have to give, But tell me what made you take any notice of me in the first place, 'and why are you 50 kind to me now? Your husband has everyone of the gifts which are supposed to attract women. I have none of them." "Don't be too modest," she smil- ed back at him. "You have one at. least." "Tell me the one," he insisted. She hesitated. It seemed cru to tell him that it was his wealt and his power of producing wealth which was his great attraction. "You have brains," she tempar- ized, "and the right sort of braiss --the brains women appreciate-- the brains that can make money." _ "I have made money," he ac- Knowieagea, rising a little Reavuy to his feet. "I have made a great deal of money and I shall make a great deal more. I .should like to share it with you." He was leaning over her and he bad spoken magic words. Any de- monstration of affection on his part, an" she would have waved him pack to his place. She yielded to a momentary fit of weakness, simply because he had spoken pre- cisely in the manner which appeal- ed to her most. The dream of a limitless bank- ing account won from her an in- clination toward graciousness which the most passionate love- making could never ~ have evoked. Her long arm rested lightly upon his shoulder and he sank on his knee. In a moment she - would have yielded to his lips, not from any feeling on her part, but in a sense of dazzlement. Instead however, she hastily withdrew and did her best to push him away. Her obvious: terror communicat- ed itself to him. - He stumbled clumsily to his feet and turped around. Harvey, a pale, rather forbid- ding looking figure after his ex- hausting day, was standing upon the threshold witp the door clos- ed behind him, It was Mildred who first recov- 'ered herself. She was annoyed, but she was overcome neither by the fear which kept Fardale speechless nor the blank amaze- ment which had "the same effect upon her husband. "Harvey!" she exclained, "I--we did not hear you come in." He advanced a little farther into the room looking steadily at Far- Fardale was here and that I was oughly uncamfortakble. "I took no special pains to con- ceal .my entrance, he observed. "They told me downstairs that Mr. ardale was here and that I was to come up. He moved back to the door and threw it open. : "Get out!" he ordered Fardale. The latter made an effort to as- sert himself. &'I can assure you, Garrard--" he began. "Get out!" Harvey interuupted. "I don't want words from you. I want action and quick action. Get out!" Herbert Fardale went. He aban- doned his attempt to say good night to Mildred, shivering in every limb at Harvey's quick movement toward him, and his progress to- ward the door was a sort of rapid shamble. Harvey closed the door behind him and rang the bell. Then he sank itno the vacant easy- chair, "I had no idea," he remarked, "that your penchant for that fel- low was of guch a character. "I don't know what you mean," | she answered coldly. himself for a moment. times do. for me." "Sorry for you--what about?" Harvey demanded. "What about?" she repeated, al- most indignantly. "Why this ter- rible mess which you seem to have made of things." "Oh, I see. You've been confiding in him, pave you?" "He appeared to know all about it," she answered: with purpose- ful malice. "He told me that you had tried to borrow money from him." ' Harvey winced. The long tight of the day had worn him out and this last thrust hurt. "That was a matter of business" he explained, "Fardale is a banker and it is his business to lend money. How is it that I find him here with you at this time of the evening? What terms are you on with him?" "We are quite good friends. We dined together tonight at the Ritz and I asked him to come on here for half an hour. I wanted to con- sult him." "You have no need of any one's advice," Harvey declared. "I don't agree with you," she re- torted. "When you come to me "He forgot Men some- I think he was sorry ered. ey ag 4 F 'ardale stumbled clumsily to his feet and turned around as the husband enr. and ask first for the loan of my pearls and then for the loan of the title of this house--I think it is quite time that I understood what was going on." Her almost militant monner af- forded him food for thought. He considered the matter from her point of view for a moment, When he looked through last few years he was astonished to realize how little of Intimacy there had been between them, how insensiply but compleiely they had drifted apart. His devotion to sport and games, ia which she concerned herself only when they touched the cycle of her fashicnable life, pad been, per- haps, ome of the chief causes. There had certainly been no other woman to whom he had paid the most superficial attention. Her own interests, too, had seemeq almost as far removed from even the mild flirtations which were everywhere accented as a matter of course. Her clothes and social engagements had appeared to fill her whole life. A certain amount of admiration she had al- ways received and accepted as her due, He was forced to admit, how- ever, that in a world where flirta- tions spring up like mushrooms, and so-called love affairs are light- ly regarded, she had never shown the slightest signs of losing her poise or of being even temporarily attracted by one of the men who paid her court. This Fardale affair was groles- que, but in was not for a moment to be regarded seriously. / On the other hand, it possessed a cer- tain import, induced a certain amount of reneetion. He was in- clined to ask himself during those few moments whether he might not be in some degree to blame for her aloofness, for the apparent -call- ousness of her demeanor, for the complete and outer absence of sympathy between them. They had drifted apart simply through a lack of common procivi- ties, and it was a drifting which he had never at any time made any effort to avert. In this case he should perhaps have confided in her more fully. Something of this he tried to express. "Mildred, he began, "I am not quite sure that I treated you with sufficient confidence the other eve- ning when I spoke of this crisis in my afafirs. I am inclined to think that I was perhaps wrong in asking for your assistance. "I thought it abommably sel- fish," she told him, without hesita- tion, It was a chilling commencement, hut he persevered. "It may have seemed so to you," he admitted. "Anyway, you may be interested to know that I suc- ceeded in raising the money." "How did you get it?" she asked curiously. He knocked the ash from his cigarette. Decidedly he was not of the stuff from which hardenea criminals are made, for a little shiver of fear ran through him as he braced himself to answer the question. "I borrowed some securities," he confided, "upon which my bank advanced the money. She loked 'at him closely. "Borrowed them?" "That is the word T elect to use. I will be quite frank with you, however, and confess that in doing so I am taking a great risk. How- ever, it is my only chance of fight- ing my way through these unex- pected difficulties." ; Her regard of him was tingea with an almost contemptuous pity. It was the nearest approach to sym- pathy which she had to offer. "Why, you know as much about business", she exclaimed. "as an idiot from an asylum. You will only get into trouble. "I have had no business traine ing, it is true," he confessed, * but on the other hand I have a brain, IT suppose, of some sort, even hough I have never used it. Then heredity counts for something. My father had gifts." She 'glanced at the clock indif- ferently. "What is say to me?" she asked. it you are trying to "I want to go to bed early. There is a ball at Oxford House tomorrow night, and I have been up late very even- ing since we came home." "What I had it in my mind to do," he explained slowly, 'was to try to beg you for a wife's sympatn- etic interest in the night which J have begun." £2.e raised herself a little on the couch. There was a puzzled light in her wide-open blue eyes. "Isn't this rather a new attitute on your part?" she inquired susgj- ciously, "Perhaps so," he admitted. "It is .possible that the idea does not appeal to you. In that case, tell me so, and I won't bore you any longer. On the other hand, it {is just possible that you may feel in- clined to help." "By giving you my pearls or the deeds of the house, I suppose," she suggested, with a note of rising anger. in her tone. "Nothing of the sort. T told yéu just now that I had abandoned that idea, What I am doing is simply this: I am entering upon what is practically a great speculation with a view to saving the fortunes of the House. One of the greatest assets I have behind me is our credit, which remains unimpaired. "The business world realizes, of course, that we have lost money, but there isn't a soul who does not belive that our capital {is large enough to stand it. That credit is the soul of my new enterprise. 1 want to keep it above suspicion. While I fight I want everything to go on as usual, "This is where you may come in. I shall have to drop out myself for a time, I am afraid, but I want you to go to all your usual parties and even to entertain here. We have always made a point of trying to keep our social doings out of the newspapers. I should like for the immediate present to abandon that atitude. You are going to the Drawing Room next week, I sup- pose. Let the papers have partic- ulars of your gown, "Didn't I hear that your frock for tomorrow night was coming over by airplane? Don't make a secret of it. Send out cards for a dinner party here the end of mext week--Saturday night I could r.anage anyhow." "Has It occurred to you' she in- quired, "that all your suggestions mean money?" "Greatorex will pay in your us. ual monthly allowance," he told her "and I have brought home £500 You must not seem to be short of money, but on-the other hand 1 want every penny I can lay my hands on. We don't need the sec- ond closed car, do we?" "Not if you're content 2Hont 8 a taxi." should be perfectly co to walk," he assureg her, ay too, have my share of appearances to keep up. I want the car to take me down to the warehouse every morning, but it can be back here for you at 10 o'clock, and T shall not need it again all day. There- fore, I think that we can very well dispense with the second car. Ham- inom will give me two thousand for to go "Is there anything else you in- tend selling while you are about it?" she demanded, My. polo ponies ar® going up next week," he replied, "and I am selling the house at Melton. You don't hunt and are never there, so this will be no deprivation to you." "Won't {t rather interfere with your bluff, if people hear that you are selling things?" & "I shall see that it does not. People believe tha I am going to South America with the polo team in the autumn, and I have set the agents oukiag fob a larger house outside Melton "which, of course, I shall find unsuitable." "If you dispose of all these things what will you have for vour- self if the crash does come?® she asked. : "Nothing," he confessed. shall not need anything." "You won't need anything?" she repeated. "If I fail," he conlided. "1 "there will probably be disclosures of a somewhat unpleasant nature, and I shall disappear." "And what will become of me?" "You will in all probability re- concile yourself without difficulty to my absence," he remarked, with a touch of that bitterness which ber attitude was fostering. "But financially?" "You will not be a pauper," he reminded her. "1 shall be next door to it" she declared angrily. "I think that sc far as I am concerned, Harvey, you are behaving disgracefully. Your first thought should have been tc make some further provision for me." He looked across at her thought. fully.. Since the commencement o1 their conversation her face had hardened. She had not vouchsafed him a single word of sympathy. not even a gruging admission of hie courage in making this great ef- fort. She Lad evidently made up her mind for the worst and her: thoughts were centered upon her own possible position. "I am afraid," he confesse" "that that would not have lec possible. If I succeed--well, * would have been unnecessary. ! I fail, t courts would take aw' anything I made over to you out « the estate." "It you succeed-"" she scoffer "Do you honestly imagine, Har. vey, that you--an utter ignoramus --can go into the eity and make money 2t a moment's warning. The whole thing fis ridiculous,-- even this bluffing which you wish me to:share, I am going to bed now. I shall make up my ming in a day or two what course to ad- opt." She rose languidly to her feet, his eyes following her with a re- newal of that recently awakened' interest. Her long, willowy figure had its own peculiar grace, note withstanding the slimness, almost ancularity of her limps. Her golden-yellow hair, so skil- fully treated, was a wonderful background to those blue eyes, She was a beautiful woman, beyond a a doubt. He remembered his own admiration of hér in the early days of their marriage as he rose to his fet with a little sigh. He realized that this was in effect the final if not the formal break in their rela- tions. He had made his appeal and made it very much in vaia. Tt there was anything of kindness In her nature, anything resembling e woman's heart beneath her cold egotistical outlook, their benefifp. were not for him. "That man Fardale," he said, as he opened the door, "he does not visit here again. Do I give the or- ders, or you?" She paused to look at him for a moment, an icy little smile upon her lips. J "I suppose you are justitied. *1I will give the orders myself. You could not possibly believe, however, that anything about such a man ex- cept his money could conceivably interest me." "I quite agree," he answered, with the one spark of malice which he had shown during their inter- vew, "It occurs to me also, how- ever, that as he possesses the only argument likely to win, shall I say, a gleam of affection from you, he might still, from a husband's point of view, be regarded as a danger- ous fellow." She considered his speech for a moment, and then turned away. "That, from you," she remarked, looking over her shoulder, "is al- most an insult." He closed the door without re- joinder. Somehow or other as he stood looking about him, the sil- ence of the room, the sight of the slightly disordeq couch from which she had just risen, te memory of her cold speeches still ringing in his ears, assembled in his heart a new and unfamiliar loneliness. After all, habit had peen strong. They had been husband and wife, automatic companions if nothing else, and he knew, instinctively, that even that was now finished. For a self-contained man, there was much latent kindliness in Lis dispo@tion, a desire for friendship; perhaps, notwithstanding its long fection. The crust of am idle, repression, for affection. The crust of an idle, pleasure-loving life was broken; his normal in- stincts were making efforts to as- sert themselves. 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