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% Hetvey. Garrard, who has . attention to tive partner and faces a finan. ""eial erisis in the old-establish- 7 od leather house. * Mildred his wife, absolutely "zéfuse. to help him, being en- tirely out of sympathy with her husband and taunting him with the flat declaration that she married him to be sup- ported in luxury, i 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 be 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 me-.. gotiable securities in his pos- session~--bonds which will se'~ tle all his financial worries. He succumbs to the tempta- tion and appropriates the se- curties, The Coroner decides that the man has died of heart disease, and no one seems to have any knowledge of the wvalusblés. But one night Har- wéry is again alone in his of- fice and, seeing a mysterious 'Hght in the reception room discovers a girl thers -- who announces herself as the grand-daughter of Swayle, fust arrived from Paris. He takes her to dinner. Now Go on With the Story Harvey did not answer the girl tor a moment. Seeking for an ex- cusé to look away, he turned and ordered a liquor brandy from an attendant. When he leaned across the table again, the ténseness hed gone from his expression. "1 certainly cannot believe you unattractive," he sdmited. "I know less about your sex, I think, than most men, so I suppose 1 am not an authority, but if I were asked my opinfon--"" "Please go on," she begged, as be hesitated, "Well, I should say that the men who did not find you attractive were men of very poor taete," he skid diberately. #'It is not exactly the compliment of a Frenchman," she rofiected. " Jacks the personal touch, May "WHO FAILED By E. Philli Copright by came into my mind on my way down to Bermondsey. 1 even won- dered whether my grandfather had really died In your waiting room of heart disease, whether he had been carrying his money with him, whethere perhaps he had confided the fact to some one in your place, and whether they bad murdered bim and stolen it, I thought of that after the lights had gone out whilst I sat in your waiting room. You will laugh at me but there seemed something almost tragical in the atmosphere." He showed no signs of laughing at her, On the contrary ho was looking at her mow through what seemed to be a mist, cursing him- self for the moisture on his fore- head, for the draining of eolor from his cheeks, for the terror in his eyés which he was powarless to move from hers, and yet in which it seemed to him that she must be able to read the truth, "A damnable idea!" he mutter. ed. She loked at him for a moment strangely. For the life of him he could not determine what thoughts were in her brain, When she jean- forward, however, her tone wae full of concern, "Why, you don't suppose that I was in earnest?" she protested. "Of course not," he answered, feeling for a efgarette in his case, "1 began te think, she 'anghed, "that I must have come of my mother's historic gifts. You ep peared quite upset." "I was," he admited frankly. "I hive only come hack to husiness very lately, and I began to won. der whether among my staff there might not be one of those secret criminals one reads about. The doctor's certiticate, however, rath- er robs us of our possible thrill the doctor's certificate and the fact that your grandfather hed a heart attack at the Savoy enly two days before." She dismissed the whole subject with a little wave of her hand. "I am sorry I speke of this" she said, "I am afraid you did net 1ike it and you have been very kind to me." ' "I wish," pe insisted, to be kind- er still, You have beén very frank to me about your circumstances, I want you to allow me to be your bapkér until yeu come into your inheritance." "Why should you do that?" she asked. He paysed while he lit a clgar- ette which he had been holdipg Hor some time between his fingers. "It seems to me that yon have [. hope, though, that what it lacks \§floweriness it makes up in gine jority?" ¥9 believe," he complained, look. Mg across at ber with mock pever- Ity, that you are making fum of we. Try to remember that I am old enough to be your---by-the-bye, how old are you?" "Younger perhaps than you would think," she replied, "In Paris, where youth now is the rage, [ am considered passe. Iam 22. ""You don't look older," he told her. "It is just your manner. gather that you are not engaged, thén, or anything of that sart?" "Are you appointing yourself my guardian?" "J am perfectly content to do so and to take up my duties on the spot," he answered unexpectedly. She was silent and for a mement he fé1t that he had takén a 1isk. Un- fer 4 mask of indifference he knew quite well that she was studying him closely. What she saw, howe aver, could searcely fall to be reas suring. Harvey's good looks were the god looks of a walsbréd and well-living Englishmén. "I have told you my age: how old are you? she asked abruptly, "f am 38, Old enough to be--" "Why, nothing at all," she laughed. "01d. enough, if I may venture tz aly 80," he rejoined, 'to he what you say these Frenchmen are not --to be your very sincere admir- or" : Her eyes held his for a moment The little smile which played about ner lips was sweet but indefinaple. He. was consclous of a sudden guickening of the pulses, It was his inexperience with wowen, he told himself, his long {romunity from their charm, whieh had made film unduly susceptible. "Y am very content with my eve. Bing and to have met you," she confided a little shyly, "I came down to Bermondsey miserable apd full of vague and unpleasant sus- picions. Now they have 211 gone d I am very happy." : "Suspicions?" pe repeated with a suddent stab at his heart, 'She nodded. ~"Let me explain. A week. ago I went to a new play at one of our small theatres. A man who had come in for a great fortune, on the day of his arrival in Paris from abroad went to see a banker who had been a school friends of bis. "The banker was supposed to be a very rich man but he was in faet on the point of bankruptéy. He aeeded a larga sym of money by the next morning and had no means of raising it. He suggested to his friend that as the hour was late he hand over to him his bonds and securitiés and some bagfuls of diamonds for safe keeping. His manner, however, had made the friend suspicious, and he refused. The banker murdered his friend. dragged his body into the safe de- posit vault, to whieh no ome but he had a key, helped himself to the bonds and met his engagements. I forget the end. Tt really doesn't matter. anyhow. T hate melodrama even at the Grand Guignol, "Somehow or othér that play no closer ftiend, that mo one has a VOLLEr FIFNL tO OLIer you LNIS Ase sistance. 'our grandfather was a Yalued business conpection rf my rm." Her expression remained imseru- table, "My grandfather pad other busi. ness connections in London," she observed. "Some of them have written: me letters of sympathy. None of them have made any offer of this sort." "They do not perhaps know your circumstances," he rejoined. She finished her coffee and to his surprise rose to her feet. "We will speak of thisagain It is even possiplé that I may accept your offer." "But I am going to America to- morrow morning. < Let me at least léave word with my cashler to sée that you have what you want." "1t will be quite tims chough when we meet again," she assur. ed him. "Thank you so much for this wonderful supper. I shall not forget. You have given me a great deal to think about. Do not dis- turb yourself, please. My room is on this side. The lift Is quite near." She nodded a farewell, kindly al- most provocative, yet with some quality in her expression the nature of which he could not fully grasp. He watéhed her pass with her half- foreign, graceful walk through the swing doors held open by an atén- tive maitre d'hotel. Then Le re- sumed his seat. Mechanically he asked for his bill. He had the feel- ing of a man who has passed through one of the rare experiences of life. Harvey' after an hour's profound slumber, was awakened by a per. emptory knock at the door of his bedroom and the sudden flooding of the room with light, He sat up and blinked. "Hullo!" he exclaimed, "Who the devil." He stopped short. It was Mil. dred who had entered, respeendent in court costume, a phantasy of waving feathers and jewels, From amid it all her cold blue eyes were fixed upon Him full of angry sus- pleion, "What does this mean, Harvey?" she demanded. "What does what mean?" he re- joined, bewildered, 'You don't mind my being in bed, do you?" "You know well enough what T mean," she insisted, '"'or perhaps you didn't want me know. If you didn't you weren't clever enough. Pérhaps you'll explain those two trunks downstairs with the New York labels upon them," "That's all right," he answered still sleapily. "I didn't know any thing about the labels, and it was silly of Andrews to leave the trunks in the hall, but I'm off to New York in the morning. Thera's no sécret about that." "'Néw York!" she repeated scorn. fully, "Of what use is that? 1 thought South America was the fashionable place nowadays." "My business does not happen to lie in South America," he ventur~ ed. "Your business, I suppose," she . THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER ZZ 1929 ...... D 8 Onpenfieim declared bitterly, "is to get away from the mess you have made of things, I don't konw that I blame you. It ig perhaps the bost way out, But what about me?" "What about you?" he echoed, 8 little puszeld, "I shall cnly be away about three weeks, If there is anythink you want in the mean while" "Don't be a damned fool, Har- vey," she interrupted--" or worse still, don't treat me as though I were one. You know very well that you are absconding. and I'm not sure that it isn't the best thing ---But what about me? Are you go- ing to leave me penniless?" "I'm glad you've reminded me," he yawned, "but anyhow I should have thought of it in the morning. I pave brought you home another £6500. You will find it in an envel- ope on the mantel piece in your room." "Five hundred pounds," she re- peated indignantly, "and I expect you're taking fifthy thousand at least." "Taking fifty thousand where?" he demanded. "The mistake of your life, Har- vey," she pronounced, 'is that you continually take me for a fool, 'When I say absconding, I mean ab- sconding. You and I both know that you are sneaking off to aveld your creditors." "Oh, am I?" he murmured, feel- ing suddenly bereft of words. "You have been in the business about a fortnight," she continued, "'and you have no brains for figures at all, How on earth could you go to New York on business for the firm? What use would you be? The very idea of it is absurd. You first vital test she had failed him utterly and compeltely. He thought of his tomorrow's journey with in. finite relief, Witp the new effort which fate had demanded of him came a new standard of require- ments from life--a new vision, It seemed to him as he lay there througy the long hours struggling for sleep that with the closing of his bedroom door Mildred had pass- ed forever outside this altered life of his into which he had thrown himself so vigorously---the life of passionate endeavor and strange sensations. * The whole events of fhe next morning seemed full of fnterest, even excitement, Greatorex, ac- companied by a shorthand typist, was at the station at Waterloo, and in the reserved compartment which had been engaged for him to Southampton Harvey glanced through masses of correspcndence, gave instructions, dictated letters witn incredible baste and without even a momentary hesitation. He seemed in some queer way to have suddenly developed a certain gift of eritical insight, an amazing facll- ity for separating the wheat from the chaff in matters of doubtful moments, Greatorex, from being' an adviser, played now oftener the part of approving listener, And witp it all, Harvey was finding, as he realized during those breath. less moments, a keen and unexpect. ed pleasure in this new pursuit of his. He was full of enthusiasm ag he finally shook hands with Great orex. "Send one of the men who, can pest be spared," he dirgcted, "te Paris and Switzerland eany next week, Don't force sales but see that every scrap of the old stock ir disposed of. Weed out the ac gounts, © These times will try all ut the strongest manufacivrers nd me a wireless twice a day and eep the counting house up to the mark, We ought to have a big bal- nce at the end of the month, but ean't tell what I may have to pay out in cash If this deal comes off." (Continued Tomorrow) - are simply making New York your first getting-off place. Well, I'm resigned, Perhaps I'd rather you went than to be continually read- ing of you in Bankruptey Court, The brutal part of it all fs, though, that you were trying to sneak awsy without leaving a penny." He sat up In bed, thoroughly awake now, "Don't talk such mensense, Mil- dred." he enjoined sharply. "In the first place you have ail the money you need in the bank for household necessities, yon have your own income coming in quart- erly, and I have brought you home £500, so that you have a little money in hand. In the second place I shall be home in less than thréa weeks." "Tell me how mych you are tak- ing with you?" she persisted. "Two millions," he replied frrit- ably "and I shall need +t al'." "Now you're hecoming ridicul- ous. Mr. yardale told me last night ---r "If you mention that feliow's name I'll go to sleep again," he threaténed. "You happened not to like Mr. Fardale," she observed, "and Ms, ¥ardale doesn't like you, but I find him a very useful friend." "Well, I'm ashamed to think that you make use of such a fellow," Harvey declared scornfully. "You can continue your acquaintance with him, If you will ,altbough it is against my wishes, but don't quote him to me; don't mention his name." "Very well," she replied, "It was suggested to me then, last night, that within the next few days you would probably tind a trip abroad good for your health. I see that you are going to take it. I shall do nothing to pinder you. I am not thinking of ringing up tte Of- ficial Receiver or any of those une pleasant personages. What TI de- mand {s that you give me a share of the money you must have col- lected from somewhere or other," | He looked at her curiously. On| her first entrance into the room | she had seemed almost a dazzling | vision. The change during the last] few minutes was incrediple. Her! features appeared to have become, sharpened with anxiety the rouge; en her cheeks was more apparent: against the background of her pallid anger. Her lips were ine drawn until her mouth seemed like a thin line, "You are under a completely wrong impression Mildred," he as- sured her. "So far from abscond-| ing, I am making a big effort not only to save the firm but to re-es-| tablish it absolutely, Fortune has heen on my side and, although in: one particular direction I am tak- ing a big risk, I think that there is every chance that I may succeed. This visit of miné to New York is undertaken solely in connection with some speculations Ihave ene tered into and my passage back on the same steamer is already book- od. . "That is your last word, Har! vey?" she demanded, without the least sign of relenting. : "There is nothing to add to it," be replied, "because it is the truth ---and I am very sleepy." . 'Without a word of farewell she left the room closing the der firm- ly behind her. He sank back among his pillows, 8tirréd more deeply than ever from his nonchalant ac- ceptance of Mildred as a somewhat selfish woman who had become an inevitable part of his life. The whole matter of their relations seemed suddenly to demand a new quality of reflection. For yesr af- ter year of their easy-going life he had accepted his wife as a master of course, giving all the time with both hande and receiving--what? He asked himself fervently, almost passjenately=~-what? Occastonally a cold caress, a gruding tenderness, the hapit-bound yielding of an un- willing consort. There was noth- ing more---~there had never been more. His eyes were opeged that night witp a new clearness. At the COUPLE SHOWERED AT NORTH OSHAWA Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Glover Honored by People of the Community services were as usual, The attend ance at the evening service was somewhat larger which pleased our pastor, Mr, Bunner of Bowmanville. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Glover were host and hostess for a shower on Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs, Elgin Glover, who were married at the bride's home in Orillia on Friday, Sept. 13. There was a large gathering and many beautiful and useful gifts were pre- sented the happy couple, Dancing and card playing with music on the radio was the program, Mr. E. Tat- tersall opened the party with a few well chosen remarks to which the groom replied. They were the reci- pients of many good wishes, They will reside at North Oshawa. : Mr. and Mrs. Herb Flintoff of Zion visited with Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick Sunday. We welcome to North Oshawa Mr, and Mrs. A. Bradford and family, who have moved from Harmony into the Sheridan house. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heaslip and children visited friends at Uxbridge Tuesday. visiting her sister, Mrs. Gordon White, Mrs. Sam Grifin and baby have returned home to Detroit after visit- ing Mr. and Mrs, Gordon White here and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mackey at Brooklin, The first meeting for the year of the H. & 8S. Club was held Monday evening. Mrs, Phillips, the presi- dent, presided, assisted by Mrs. Kin- near of Oshawa, who also addressed the meeting on club work and acted as chairlady. A few remarks by Miss Baker of Harmony about their club was also enjoyed, The program was worthy of a stiff admission and was given free by Miss McMaster, A.T.C.M, teacher of music. McMaster lectured on the beauty and fineness of music and demon- strated on the piano. Mr, and Mrs. Neilson gave several vocal seléctions. Mr, Neilson was a member of Men- delssohn's choir of Toronto before coming to Oshawa. Muriel Phillips, a pupil of our school who passed her entrance this year, gave two piano instrumentals and one vocal duet with her sister, Francis. We notice that Muriel is showing in both her singing and playing a big improvement and we feel that it will not be long before she is thoroughly accomplished. We are justly proud of her. Following the program ice-cream and cake was served. The October meeting will be election of officers, Mrs. Kinnear has kindly consented to give us her help on that evening and a good at- tendance of grown-ups is hoped for. SERIOUS MISHAP NEAR ALMONDS Woman Hurt When Two Cars on Highway Crash Tractor Almonds, Sept. 19.--~Mr. and: Mrs. Walter MacCarl and children, Miss Lois Balsdon, Mr, Milton Balsdon, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hardy, of Solina. Mr. Lorne Puckrin, while driving along the highway with his tractor and haypress, was struck with a car when two attempted to pass each other. The haypress was knocked completely over into the ditch and the 'tractor was driven into a tele phone pole, damaging both consider- ably, and also the two cars, One North Oshawa, Sept. Ta Miss Hilda Mackey of Brooklin is | Miss | lady was injured considerably, but fortunately no serious damage was one, Almonds Anniversary Services will be held on Sunday and Tuesday, Oct. 20 and 22, Rev, Harold Stain- ton of Courtice, will oceupy the pul- pit morning and evening. Mr, George Lee was rather unfor- tunate recently in losing 2 valu- able milk cows. The animals were pasturing in a fleld along the lake shore and in some manner broke through the fence and fell down over the steep embankment, twenty- five feet high, and were killed, Many from the vicinity attended Oshawa fair during the past week and report a good show, Mr, and Mrs. Gould of Toronto were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. W. Hall. The laughs average woman will, PSYCHOLOGY MAY 'HELP DETERMINE CRIMINALS FATE Students of Penology Offer| g Revolutionary Plan at Toronto Toronto, Ont, Sept, 21.--A plan to move the determination of a crimin- al's sentence from the court to a group of experts trained in psychol- ogy, psychiatry and criminology, was proposed by George C. Erskine, pre- sident of the American Prison Asso- ciation, at the opening of the organ- jzation's convention here last night, The plan, the product of years of study by leading students of penol- ogy, though "revolutionary . in its sweeping changes and probably not hurriedly to be accepted, will tend to britip about that more orderly and stable condition of society for which all good citizens are starving," Mr. Erskine said. TAUNTON PERSONALS Taunton, Sept, 19.--Several from when she can and weeps when she this section attended the fair at Bowmanville on Saturday. Some of those present were Mr. and Mrs, T. C. 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