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Oshawa Daily Times, 19 Jul 1930, p. 5

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_ PACE FIVE PASSION FLOWER & Katie Nort Synopsis of Preceding Instalments + Cassy Wallace, mother of two children--and divorced stands 1; her former hus- band, Dan Wallace, and Dulce, her husband's second wife, Dulee's sudden coming, and then Dan's arrival, ning like a terrifying nightmare from which she cannot wake wp. The fog, the distant sur! on the Carmel beach, Dulce fran. tle with jealous anger, and Dan ns Eewiidered and lov. Able as the day, Cassy had, eloped with him--nll these beat upon her frightened senses, Sanity and a solution of thelr lives seems infinite. ly far off, Dan's and Casey's son, Tommy, whose almost fatal aceldent had reawakened Dan's love for Tommy's mother, is in the yard playing with his little sister, Mar. garet, Cassy's old friend, Mac. Allister Jessup, Is coming down from San Francisco that evening for dinner--=but would evening ever arrive? Dan Is dazed but Insists he is going to Australia tomor- row==has merely come to say goodbye to his children and Cassy, Dulce makes a scene and leaves, TWENTY-NINTH INSTALMENT There was silonce for a minute, Then Dan said vaguely "Queer weather," "The heaviest fog 1 member," Cassy sald, "Dulce feels terribly," Dan be- gan suddenly, "I don't know what wo--=what we can do about it." "No, Theres doesn't seem to ba anything to do about it,' "It's up to me," he sald "Well, whoever it's up to," Cassy contributed, after a pause of reflection, "she'll get over it part of it, She'll feel better, when she goes back to La Lomita, "Maybe," Dan agreed doubt fully, He stooped, and clumsily plek- od the packet of letters from the floor, "It was terrible, to have her so angry," Cassy sald "She gets like that," He handed her the letters, flat and slim Iu their limp red ribbon, "I didn't know she was coming down here," he said, "1 left home day before yosterday.' "You don't seom to have any trouble getting jobs now, Dan, Re- member when IL used fo worry you so, for fear you'd never make good." "I haven't made good," he mut- tored, darkly Cassy looked down at ters in her hand, "Do you suppose Dulce thought I'd road' thapet" . "I suppose so." Hhe has curious Ideas--=primi- tive ideas," Cawsey obsorved mildly, 'She'd rend em fast enough," Dan sald, ite glancod at them, flushed darkly, "I don't know what gets in to A man, when hy goes crazy about an woman," he said awk- wardly, "1 don't know what us,' Cassy amonded it, gloomily. "As she stood there, Dan," she sald, "It seemed to me Lhe most cidiculous thing--the most pre- posterous thing, that she should be here at all, That through anything yo and 1 ever did she should be- long here, between us, deciding whether or not we should see each other again." "I know," Dan sald, "Divorce Is a funny thing, isn't ever re- the let. got into it? "That's what I was thinking." "Maybe it fsn't this way with avery one, but it seems (0 MO== why, Just that you and 1 belong together," Cassy sald, feeling hor way, spoaking as It she only thought nloud. "Father and Moth- or and ch!Mdren--that's the way it ought to be, There oughtn't to be anything----panything----that could make it wrong for you just to sottle down hers now, and have lunch with us, and afterward go walking on the beach, and watch 'he fog come In,, and hear the belly" "Don't," Dan sald briefly, "Wouldn't that . be heaven, Dan?" ' "It would be for me,' he sald "Nothing really ends marriage, doeg it, Dan?" "Not=--If it's the real thing, I suppose,' 'I know we've hoth made a lot of mistakes," Cassy sald, and paused, ""le=not you.' "It's the Jimit," Dan said in the silence, gruffly, and Cassy laugh- od forlornly, helplessly, at the in- adequacy of the word."We'll just have to pick up the pleces and do the best we can, now, Dan, I'll £0 on, up at the ranch, Dulce will be. alone at La Lomita, and you'll be in Australis, That's all we'can 0. "No use~tirying to {alk her over, trying to get free?' he ask- od, "No, he answered himself, "we can't go back." "Oh, no, not now, It would on- ly drive her wild," Cassy paused. "And it would never be the same," she added sadly, "I suppose not," "You can see by her coming al) the way down and by her giving nie these letters, Dan how bitterly she foels, She wouldn't have risk. od theso--she knows, I'll burn them-if she hadn't been furious, These are probably the only love letters that Dulco-ever had, "going to let you be happy again, if she can help it," "No. 1 see that," "She says these are the letters you wrote hor during that winter when we were so unhappy, when the children were sick, and | was all worn out," "Yon. Cassy flung the letters into the dead ashes of the fire, stooped to pile light wood upon them, to stir up the last pink embers, "Cassy, If you could for. klve me," Dan began hoarsely, suddenly close beside hor, lean. Ing over her, but. not touching her. 'If you could forgive me for be- ing such a damn fool," he sighed, "Why, It wasn't all you, Dan,' she answered, with her honest blue eyes raised soberly to his, "Oh, It was," he muttered. He walked to the window and Cassy stood hy the mantel, "Woll--you're all right, You're the most wonderful woman in the world," he said. "Every one adores you have the kids--"' "More than my sister has, col lecting prints in Paris," Caney ugreoed, in the pause, I have nothing," Dan said, She went to him, and put her arms along his arms, and gripped his shoulders with her brown fing- ors "You have me, Dan," she sald "I've nevay stopped loving vou I never will, 'There's something ~-pomething to think about, when you go away." "Cassy," he whispered, an great [Hops "TH NIK haggard face, "could 1 ever come back to you?" "Lot's not say that new," she sald, "Not now. But write you, Cass?" "Now and thon, if rou lke. "And will you write me.' ""Bometimen." He put his head down on her shoulder, "Oh, my God, you give me hope again, you give me hope again. It'll all come right, some day, won't it, Cassy?" "I don't know---" whe faltered, looking away, her Ip shaking. Tears brimmed in her blue eyes, "Well, I'm going. 1 mall tomor- row, and my contract is for a year. It's a rotten hard job, and I'm going to work like a dog. I'll let you know-" He glanced kitchen doot, "What about the-children, Cass? Shall I way goodbye to them?" 'I think not, Dan," she said uu- certainly, after A moment of hes: tation. "They love you mso---Mar- garet cried nso bitterly when we loft Napa." "Margaret did?" he asked a lit: tle huskily, Toars stood In his own eyes, 'Suppose you speak to them, Dan, without ry g.odbyes, Thoy- 're such tonder hearted little things." "I'll do that, then," he agreed. His face, Cassy remembered after «Was, WAN ghastly, She went to the dining room door, ! "Inge, send the children in, will you And but. can | toward the closed gruttly: . you? qh) E>" Fert Fall Wheat we get the facts Free Flowing in the drill! 16 CELINA 8T, Free Flowing IMES have changed! No more wait. ing for fertiliser delivery! For your Fertilisers in stock! Come in . . . COOPER SMITH CO. F. C. VANSTONE BOWMANVI LLE, ONT. | Cir p ilizers will carry C. I. L. Mixed about these improved, Fertilizers that can't clog OSHAWA, ONT, "You give them a wonderful ¢hildhood, Cass," he sald humbly, #he had closed the dining roow door behind her; mow the knob turned slowly, as children's fing ers might turn it, and it was open- ed from the other side, But fostead of little Margaret and Tom, it was Dulce who came in, and closed it again behind her; she stood facing the other two with the livid face and flittering eyes of a mad woman, The instant that Cassy saw her she knew that they were all lost, and that this was what she had been expecting, been fearing, all through the strange, uneasy hours of this endless, foggy day . She whispered something, and Dulce sald in a whining voice, "You thought you could have ft all your own way, didn't you, Mr, Daniel Wallace?" Cassy heard Dan shout, and saw him spring forward toward Dulce, "I'm all right, Cass--It's all right. But for God's sake keep out of the way, Then the report sharply across the voices, after that there was.an endlesy minute of silence in the room. An acrid smell of gunpowder peue- trated the air; the smoke mush- roomed slowly against the low cell. ing. Dan's letters, under the heaped light wood, fired suddenly and sent up a cheerful spurt of piaze, Caspy's eyes, wandering vaguely to the windows, saw (og=- fog---fog, pressing against them, She wishod whe could wake up. fhe was bending backward against a wall, with one hand tight against her heart, and her mouth filled with water, "There," Dulce sald, quiet, triumphant voice, "You thought I was afraid---yon thought I was just talking---that's how much I was afraid." Dan had stopped on his way to- ward her, had sunk into a chalr "That's the time you got me," he whispered And turning his eyes to Cassy he breathed, "#he's done it, Cass." Cassy somehow had the smoking pistol in her hands. Now she was forcing it upon Inga, "Give it to me," Dulce coolly, wrenching it from Inga's hands., fhe laughed, turning away, "I'm not going to hurt you, Cassy," she sald, They were salon: in whe and Dan, Cassy was on her knoes, the beloved head was limp against her cheek "I think it only ~ grazed the un dorarm 1 don't know," he sald, "You're all right, Danny, you're all right, Dan," she whispered, hor fingers tearing at his shirt to ex- pose the purple circle that was Just above the heart, "The doctor's »»ing to be here in a fow minutes, Dan," Thera were women, white faced und swift, with frightened eyes, in the room, ""Shoets, Inga," Cassy sald, The pillows where Tommy and Marge aret sometimes scrambled Were flung to the floor Dan's shirt WAR open--some woman cut his undershirt away , in a dry, sald, the room, white pillows; he did net loosen his hold on Cassy's hand, or move his eyes from her face, But when the old doctor had Anished with the strips of adhesive tape, and the hasty bandage to stem the red oozing from the purple hole, he smiled, "No use, sh?" his shadow of a volce sald, with all Dan's old good humor, "Wouldn't say that," the physi: clan answered gently "We can tell nothing yet; you'll have to be moved, you know---and X-Ray. We'll have to locate that bullet noe just where It is, No probing until we know, Just don't make any effort,' he sald to Dan, watching him, "I'm all right," Dan sald, "Who did ft--what is twas it a pistol?" a babble of hushed voices sald In the kitchen, The doctor had to report this. Oh, yes, report it, she sald hur- riedly, Then sho sald to the doc- tor that they might have another opinion; get a man from San Fran. cisco. But he was so gentle with her, so kind, that after that she only heard herself saying, in a frightened whisper. "Then I'll stay with him , I'll not leave him again," She knelt down beside him on the couch, and took in hor own brown hands the weuk, cool hands that had always been so strong and warm, "Feeling pretty comfortable?" "I keep being afrald--'" Dan said painfully and wisely, like u child=="I keop being afrald that I'm going to draw a deep breath. | know I'm not, of course, But | keep thinking I am." "She just wont crasy, didn't she Canny?" "Dulee? Yes, poor Dules," "Poor Dulce," he repeated obediently, "It would hurt like hell if I breathed doep, Cass. "What did you say, dear?" "Don't want to breathe deep." "Don't-=wan to--hroathe deep." "No, of course not." After a minute he sald: "Do you know what I thought? | | thought we were back in the old | oom at the Cannon house, Cass, | Remember?" "Remember," she sald, "And I thought I'd come home (eoling rotten and you'd made me lle down, and that you were tak. ing care of me, "Well, that was a happy thing to think." "Romember that old room, "and i the big ft bed with the brass | knobs, and the way we'd lean on the window sill, and look down at the people {nthe street and talk about ourselves?" 1 "Ah, it was a happy time, Dan," "Thoy tried to bully us-=that ulght in your father's library, but they couldn't: do It, You came over and stood beside me, and sald, "Walt for me," (To be continued) oMcinl tour of China and Japan leaving Vancouver October 16, on the liner Empress of Russia, a par- ty of Japanese manufactures and merchants Is due to arrive here July 26 on the Empress of Canada for a tour of observation through Canada and the United #tates | TAKEN TO Us. TO | FACE MURDER CHARGE (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Montral, Que, July 19 Her man Henry Barrvere, wanted in Ar lington county, Virginia In conned tion with the murder of a» Washing ton navy department girl employee in Api, left Montreal yesterday for Washington In custody of four United Btates officers, I'he woman companion detained with Barrere is being given safe¥eon- duet home, Burrere wus recognized by sharp eved Montreal detectives when he walked Into detective office to com plain of the theft of $60, arines level to Thorold, The barge In tow carried construction mater: inl to he unloaded at various lochs en route to Allanburg, The tug and harge will therefore slways hold the honor of being the first craft to make n complete grip through the entire new Welland Cannl,- although there will he a Ware of trumpets and flare of flags when the eanal is officially opened on' Labor Day $72,600,000 DEAL TRANSACTED IN CASH New York, July 19-=0One of the largest cash transactions in the history of the oll industry, the sale' by the, ginclalr Consolidated 0) Corporation of its 50 per cent, in- terest In the Sinclaly Crude Of) Purchasing Company and the Sin. clafr Pipe line Company to (he dandard Ol Company of In- diana, the owner of the other 50 per cent, for $72,000,000 wag an- wounced yesterday hy Harry I sineluly, Chalrman of the Sinclair Board, I'he sale, which must he up | wroved by the stockholders of the 4 Govt. Tug and Barge Ki inelair Company, will ron in Paving. Way For . Atlantic Air Route Ales Capt MU WM. H. FORD Ldberal candidate for Searboro, Toronto | Ott "un, trial Make the First Trip w onet profit to the ginclaly Com pany of more than $55,000,000 ax Through Canal its total Investment in these two | [companies wus announced a heing | ------ 14,189,000 #t, Catharines, July 19. "The i? 1 government tug Escort, towing | JAPAN AND CANADA conetruction barge mide histor yesterday without flourish or finge| y ' "wg or a single whistle toot to mark an! EXCHANGE TOURS epoch on the Welland Canal | {11ond there Yesterday morning the tug and | y Canadian Press Leased Wire) {nlr route barge quietly stewed Into loc wonver, Bo fully 190 While 'America hy four, the first of the twin lock were | dian | Come| The expedition | few, stepping up from the He, Cath npleting Le Journal of (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Bergen, Norway, July 10,» axpedition Is starting from here toduy for Greenland undey | teadership of Constintin Domhbrova, doctor of meteorology of Bucharest investigate atmosphere with u view tos future | het Kurope and winy of Greenland financed and Dr An of Ihe to condi ween 0 us the jy to ke f heing Pari hamher TIS 7; PEERLESS Age . \) 4 . They laid him buck against the a Year after year additional thousands of car owners turn to British American Gasolene and lubricating Oils. 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