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¥ HE OSHAWA DILLY, TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 'The WIFE WHO F And the Girl who Saved Instalment Twelve y HARVEY GARRARD, find- ing the business which he n- ehrited about @ankrupt, re- nounces his idle life and turns for help and sympathy to his wife. . MILDRED, who has their personal property tied up for herself. But she fails him ut- terly in his crisis and Indig- nantly leaves him with the word that she married bim only to be supported in lux- ury. Harvey finds a strapger alone in his office late at night dead in a chair, with a million in negotiable securities in his possession. The temptaticn to appropriate this money to uelp tide over the business is too strong. The man was EBENEZER SWAYLE, but there seems to have been no record of the fortune he was carrying, and Harvey's theft is undiscovered. A new phase is put on the situation, however, with the appearance of the dead man's granddaughter, GRACE SWAYLE, wno had an engagement to meet her grandfather and was expecting him to have an inheritance ready for her, The girl gets Harvey's promise that ehe shall be looked after, and, while here is pondering how much she might know of the § million, he is forced inl> a business trip to America, and finds her on shipboard virtval- 1y forcing herself on nim es his secretary. Alt¥ough guarding himself against any slip which may reveal his sec- ret, he finds the situation not unpleasant, as she draws him to tell her of his own life. Now Go On With the Story "was your lawyer able to get hold of anything for you at all?" Harvey asked Grace, after ghe had told him the results of her visit in America, - "It doesn't seem possible tor your grandfather to have taken sverything he posessed in the world away with him." She laughed happily. "Of course he couldn't. There was quite a nice balance in the bank, some more money due from ihe pusiness, and a house and fur- piture which Mr. Brandon is going lo sell for me. He has given me 2 thousand dolars, and I can have some more when I want it. Can't you see," she added, ralsing her arms and slowly pivoting, "how ex- pensive I am? These clothes came from the best place in New York, And my hat--well, look at it!" "Ravishing!"" "1 have two evening frocks,' she continued, "and many other things. I had a lovely days' shopping in New York. I thought you would have made remarks long ago, Tell me, do I not please you?" "you wear your clothes always like a Frenchwoman," he sighed, "put you were sufficiently attrac- tive before. I suppose in view of this change in your fortunes I shall lose my secretary' id She leaned over and kissed nim lightly on the check. "You are a very foolish man," she scoffed. 'The bugle has sound- ed. Shall we go in to lunch?" That six days' voyage to South- ampton brought something entirely new into Harvey Garrard's life, something the sweetness and won- der of which he realized day by day, put the fundamental meaning of which he studiously ignored. Grace was not only a delightful and sym- pathetic companion, but she had the Frenchwoman's instinct of sex assertion, of all the time surround- ing with a little esthetic mystery the commonplaceness of everyday Intercourse. Those few thrilling moments of the voyage out had nev- sr been repeated--seemed, indeed, to call for no repetition, They nev- sr mised their evening promenade and she would give him her lips when they bade each other fare- well, with the affectionate warmth of an understanding and admiring friend. She lavished upon him signs and tokens of affection to which he had never been accustom- ad and which all the time he found sore enchanting. They lived in .nger, he sometimes thought, .nough she apparently never, real- zed. Even the last night, they steamed up the Channel, brought = with it none of the perilous sadness of parting, for she had insisted up- on it that the next day but one her desk and typewriter should be es- tablished in his office. "You don't really need to work," he reminded her. ('Why don't you 'take a holiday for a time?" She made a little grimace. "You are not polite," she com- plained. "You wish to get rid of me then.' "I most certainly do not,' he as: sured her earnestly. 'I am speak- Ing only for your own sake. Ber- mondsey is such a dreary spot for you to come to every day." "You foolish person!" she laugh- ed. "You will be there, will you not? Very well, I shall be content, I shall take down your letters and keep everything about your corres- pondence-very neat and tidy, and some day when you are not too busy you will perhaps take me out. We shall dance together some- times?" "It you wish," he promised. «of course I wish. And please 100k more happy about it," she begged. "At times when wa talk about the future you look at me sO strangely. No one wonid imagine you were glad to think that you y ST IERR YR Tne By had a new little friend who is very fond of you." "I have anxieties," he told her, "which I cannot share with any one, Very soon I hope that I may get rid of them, Then you will see how much more cheerful I can be." "I hope that it will be soon," she declared, "Not that I mind your having moods, but I like to see you always happy. Now, if you will promise not to be angry, Harvey, I am going to ask you something." "1 don't think that you could eas- {ly make me angry." "It was the lawyer who put fit into my head. He told me that my grandfather pad pecome very queer during the last twelve months, He was not only afraid of panks, but he was afraid of safes. He used, Mr. Brandon suggested-- that the bonds might have been stolen that night, perhaps by the person who found him, Do you believe, dear friend, that there is anyone in your place who could possibly have tak- en them?" "I can think of mo one," he re- plied, without a tremor in his voice, "but then you must remember that, excepting for Mr Greatorex, they were. all strangers to me, When we get back, if you like, I will have inquiries made about them. "It is not necessary," she assur- ed him, 'The police will do that." "When shall you go to Scotland Yard?" "I thought tomorrow. I have a letter to the Chief Commander from Mr. Brandon, explaining every- thing." He was watching the flash from a distant lighthouse, He was calm enough, but he sought in vain for courage to make the inevitable re- quest, "ell me," she asked, looking at nim a little anxiously, "you have had no more messages this even- ing?" "None," he asesured her, "Fyerything is still up, up, up?" "Mounting to the skies, There hasn't been a sign of a break, Why do you ask?" "T thought that you looked wor- ried," she confided. "Yox haven't a headache or anything, have you?" "Nothing of the sort." They were seated side by slde on steamer chairs. She thrust her arm gently though his, "Then I think it must be that you are sorry our voyage is over," she said. "Tell me that you are, please. I have loved it so much." He thought of that terrible Nem- esis which even now might be awaiting him and shivered a little. Hour after hour during the last week he had devoted himself to studying the bank figures. There were great gaps, however, which it had ben impossible for him to fill up. That he would be able to with- draw the whole of the securities at a moment's notice was, to say the least of it, unlikely, "I think that I am developing a temperament," he confessed. "Cer- tainly I am sorry that our voyage is over. I do not ned to tell you that, dear, I have found it wond- erful." "Do you think that your wife will be very pleased to see you?" sha.asked wistfully. At least here he could be honest, and, ag he knew, consoling. "She. will be perfectly indiffer- ent about the matter," he answer- ed. "She will greet me as though I had departed for the city in the morning and had just returned. So long as I keep her supplied with everything else she desires in life I honestly believe that she is more content when I am away." Grace gave a sigh of relief, "T ghall really be able to see you sometimes in London, then?" "Probably as much as you want to," he assured her. Harvey thought a little drearily of what London had meant to him in the past--polo for an hour or so at Ranlaugh or Hurlingham a game of golf at Sunningdale or Working, a great many dull and wearisome parties given by people in whom he could find no interest. Mildred al- though her social position was too secure for such scruplousness to be necessary, made a point of accept- ing with meticulous care every in- vitation which came from the right people. She liked to be seen every- where, to read of her dresses in the papers, to be photographed as often, as possible, and the ides of a party to which she had not been in- vited was always an irritation. He reflected with a certain amount of satisfaction, however, that his in- creasing business responsibilities would avoid him a good excuse for a gradual withdraw from the maj- ority of these functions. The idea of them had suddenly become more istasteful than ever. Beside, what right had he to show himself anywhere when any day might see him in the felon's dock? Sometimes--that night was one of the occasions-- the tempta- tion to tell Grace everythicg be- came almost irresistible. Then he pictured to himself the horror in her eyes, the slow shrinking away fom him, the unmistakable con- tempt with which she might show some grudging consideration, it in- deed, she showed any at all. The horrors of confession were almost as great ag those of discovery. He summoned up his courage and took the one step farther into the morass which he had dreaded. "I should like, if I may, to ask you a favor," he said. "A favor from me to vou," she laughed, 'It ig granted, my king." "Don't be too sure," he rejoined gravely, "It is quite a serious mat- ter. You spoke just now of your lawyer's suspicion that some ene in my employ might have stolen your E. Phillips Oppenheim Copright by E. Phrilips Oppenheim grandfather's bonds. I have an idea about that. It does not amount to a suspiclon--just an idea. I wonder whether you would,' when we reach England, refrain for twenty-four hours from taking | that list of securities to Scotland' Yard?" "Why of course," she answered without hesitation. "If you like, I will not go until you tell me." "That is very kind of you' he acknowledged, "It is not kind at all, Tt is just natural, And in return you must promise me something. Promise me that even if you give up this new interest of yours in business, if you go back to your old manner of life, that you will not send me away altogether. You will let me be where I can see you sometimes." "I shall never go hack to the old life, and I promise willingly that T will never lose sight of you, All the same, I hope I may be able to do something better for you than keeping you always by my side." "What do you mean?" "I mean that I must try to find you young people--friends of your own age." She shook her head. "You need find me nobody but yourself," she told him, laying her hand upon his; 'Just yourself, please. I am young, you know, but I have never cared much for other young people. You could give me everything that I want in life. Some day I hope you will, when you understand me hetter, and----don't laugh at me please, for in some ways you are stil very --1ig that not the word ?--ingenuous --when you understand life bet. ter." i "What do you mean?" he de- manded uneasily, She rose to her feet, "You have such a stupid gcience," she whispered, "but I love you for it." She left him before he could at- tempt to reason with her, drawing her fingers caressingly across his cheek, but seeking no other em- barce or farewell. Half an hour board, The end of the journey had arrived. Hidrvey, on his arrival at Water- loo the following morning was strongly tempted to drive direct to Bermondsey and postpone his homegoing until the evening. A sense of duty prevailed, however, and he directed his taxicab driver to 'Curzon stret. He was conscious of a turioug feeling, as he was driv- en through the familiar streets, that he nad been away much longer than the twenty days which his trip had taken him; that he had come back to a life radically different from the one which he had left go ghort a time before. The Impras- sion grew stronger all the time, and was increased with some season when his taxi came to a standstill before his house in Curzon street) He looked at the front in amaze- ment, It was almost hidden in a perfect maze of scaffolding poles; the window hoxes were gone, the windows curtainless, He let him- self in quickly with his latchkey and stared about him in astonish. ment. Not only were the painters and decorators there in force, but the hall was bare of furniture. He opened the door of the dining room only to find It absolutely empty. The men at work--there seemed to be a small army of them---stared at him as at an Intruder. He pres- god the bell and kept his. finger upon the knob until Andrews, his own servant, came hurrying up. ' "What the devil 1s the meaning of all this, Andrews?" Harvey de- manded. "I have given no orders for redecarating. The house does- n't need it. Where is your mis- tress?' : Andrews was obviously exceed- ingly ill at ease. His thin face was turrowed and lined with anxiety. He drew a letter with great care from his pocket and handed it to his master. con- later they were taking the pilot on | Cooling Weather By Diffused Gas Washington, D.C., Sept, 28--~Pro- ducing cool weather by diffusing gas through the atmosphere, as has been suggested by a German inventor, is a good idea, in the opinion of Wil- liam J, Humphreys, meteorological physicist of the weather bureau-- only it cannot be worked. Dr, Hum- phreys placed the proposal of Chris- tian Smudt Alexander to cool Kavana by releasing gas at an altitude of 300 to 500 feet in the same category with hundreds of suggestions for practical rain making. "They sound well, but they don't work," said Dr, Humphreys. "The quified air or another gas much cold- er than the atmosphere. Assuming that gas 100 degrees colder than the air's temperature could be obtained, 000 tons of it--at an altitude of 500 feet--in order to reduce the tempera- ture 10 degrees over an area of one square mile." Such a volume would be necessary, he explained, because gases when mixed reach a mean temperature, He computed the 125,000 tons on the basis of volume and weight, assum- ing that gas 100 degrees colder would reduce one-tenth of its vol- ume by 10 degrees. "This is offered merely to demon- strate the utter impracticability of the proposal," added Dr. Humphreys. '"Tven this computation presupposes an absolutely windless day. Other- wise the cold gas would drift inde- finitely doing no good at the earth's surface." Furthermore, the government sci- entist argued, merely decreasing temperature wottld not eliminate dis- comfort, which results, he reminded, largely from humidity, Mdre fun- damental, he suggested, would be a plan to remove the moisture from the alr in dwellings, simultaneously with cooling it by refrigerating sys- tems, REORGANIZATION OF FRENCH ARMY Smaller Army, Fewer Sold- iers, but More Machine Guns s, Sept. 28.--Machine machine guns and guns always, A smaller army, fewer soldiers, but a compact force of trained men and military officers of career, These are the broad outlines of -a plan for the reorganization of the French army, published in the "Re- view of the Living" under the ini- tials "ZZZ," whom every ong con versant with French miiitary mat- ters has recognized as onc of the high officers in the present army. Plans ¢'r the reo; tion of the French army have been numer ous recently. Tt has been of ly admitted by the French mi: y of war 'that the French troops necd re- organization. At the time of Mar- shal Foch's death he was busy with er of War Painleve and several drawing up a sect of re- forms. The work is now being con- tinued with General Weygand, Foch's former right hand man, as collaborator to the minister of war. That the French military mind still regards Germany as a possible menace to France was shown by the trend of "ZZZ's" article, "The experience of the late war has proved that a machine gun bar- rage is impassable, providing the bar- rage is assured by one machine gun to every 400 yards," he said. "Re- duce our eastern and northern fron- tier to 360 miles---neklecting to take into consideration those sections of it which are made impenetrable by guns; more machine nr T wag entrusted with this by Mrs. | Garrard, sir," he announced. "She | desired me to se that you had It | immediately on your arrival. Harvey tore open the envelope and moved back to the center of the deserted dining room. The let- | ter was brief, byt very much to the point: Dear Harvey: i I learned today what I suspected from the first; that your visit to the States on the pretext of business is simply a blind to deceive your cred- {tors and that you are by now pro- | bably on your way to South Ameri- ca. Your treatment of me is dis- graceful. The little I can do to pro- tect myself I am doing. I have sold the house and all the furniture to Lord Cranley. He will be moving in almost immediately--perhaps before you are home. to sell, I am afraid, at a consider- able sacrifice, but I do not suppose | that you have taken any steps to protect me, and I have been advis- ed that under certain contingencies | your creditors might claim the house. I am therefore once for abroad, although how I am to live anywhere in comfort on the miserable income I now possess I cannot tell. - I have left this letter for you in case you return, with in- structions to Andrews to find out your address and fowad {it if the wost comes to the worse. I hope you will remember my unhappy plight if you have had the sense to get hold of any money. I shall pe at the Negresco Hotel at Nice for a week or two. Afterward I shall try to find some very inexpensive apar nts. * How I hate the idea! MILDRED. Harvey read his wife's amazing I was obliged | leaving at | You'll be sufprised how quickly and easily Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Try it and be convinced, Manufactured by NORTHROP & LYMAN CO. Limited Toronto, Cana" ID" J.D.KELLOGGS | ASTHMA letter over three times. Then he thrust it into his pocket with a MAY SOUND WELL | BUT WON'T WORK Physicist Scouts Idea of | best chance would be to release li-| it would be necessary to release 125,- | Asthma Remedy brings relief to sufferers from Asthma or Hay Fever. It effectively overcomes irrita+ tion and permits you to escape from the horror of sleepless, restless nights. It relieves the worst cases, | | queer little smile, 2st) 'donor Canadian Pacific Men J ife-saving certificates of the Royal Canadian Humane So- ciety were recently presented at Port McNicoll by Hon. Wm. Fin- layson, Ontario Minister of Lands and Forests, to Car Inspector Alex, MeCullagh, No. 1; Constable Harry Gyves, No. 2, and Chief Clerk J. A. Davidson, No. 8, all Canadian Pacific employees sta- 3, rivers and canals, Thus we find that 1,500 machine guns > necessary for the establishment of continuous barrage, requiring 370 squads or 100 companies. In the present state of our organization, 100 machine gun companies represeni 100 infantry battalions, or 11 divi- sions," which should be occupying our northern and eastern frontiers, Our present army cannot assure that service," The writer concluded by asking for the incorporation of a permanent force of 106,000 men and soldiers of "career," to be under arms at all times and by a final plea for more machine guns. The general "incog- nito" was in deadly earnest and may be said to interpret the thoughts of the French general staff, At Geneva, after the Locarno in- terviews with Gustav Stressemann of Germany, Aristide Briand, pre- mier of France, was also very much in earnest and translated the feel- ings of a large majority of the French nation, when before the League of Nations he made his fa- mous address: tioned at Port MeNicoll, who last March rescued from drowning Mrs, Geaudrault, her 8-year-old daugh- ter and Margaret Swales, who were crossing the lake from Victoria Harbor:to Port McNicoll when the ice gave way. In making the | presentations Mr. Finlayson stress. | ed the point that railroad men | were at all times cool and cole | lected at a crisis. ! b the cannon, Destroy the machine guns. The war is over, CUTNON-PREFERRFD FARM LABOR QUOTA This is an era of peace," Cent. Determined at Ottawa Ottawa, Sept. 28 --The number of farm laborers which transportation companies will be permittéd to bring into Canada {rom non-preferred countries of Europe, will, for the next year, be further reduced by 25 per cent, The present provisions courage' immigration f ) Isles will be continued, incl two pound assisted passages Representatives of the C The Further Reduction of 25 Per!: Pacific railway and C.P.R. steambliips, the Canadian National, the Hudson's Bay company and several ocean ship+ ping companies spent Thursday in conference with Hon, Robert Forke and officials of the immigration dc- partment laying plans for next year's movement, Although the transpor- tation companies had hoped for greater scope in bringing out farm laborers, the decision of the minister seemed to have been fairly accept- able, ! A year ago in order to reduce the influx of immigrants from central Europe, the number of farm labor- ers which were allowed from mnon- preferred countries, was limited, to one-third of previous year's total This resulted in 10,000 less entering Canada. Department Statement 'e At the conclusion of Thursday's meeting the following statement was issued by the department: "Representatives of the transpor- tation companies met the Hon. Ro- bert Forke, minister of immigration and colonization, and officials of the department to discuss plans relating to immigration activities for the com- mg ycar, "It was agreed that British immi- gration will continue to receive every possible encouragement. A rénewal of the assisted passage agreement for certain classes of British migrants, which expires at the end of the pre- sent calendar year, was recommend- ed, These classes include families for land settlement, houseworkers and juver le immigrants, moved under re ial government or recognized SOC s' auspices, "The British farm trainee move- ment for which Canada does not make any passage contribution and which displayed a number' of weak- 1 s this year will be renewed, but important safeguards in the di- ion of improved methods of aining and better selection both be- fore and after training. "Immigration" from the United continue as at present, year's numerical restriction ent of single men from urope for farm placement 7 in we Canada, is being d with a further reduction of er cent, but with provision a se farming in Canada who ish to bring their fellow countrymen ist them on the land will be taken care of. 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