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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1930 gl Ww "The Secret of MARGARET YORK By Kathleen Norvis : INSTALMENT 1 Were you going up to tke house again, Miss Yorke?" "1 can go, Mrs. Cutting"! And Margaret Yorke, half closing the book she had been reading sound looked eagerly at her empioy- or, every fibre of her body tcnse with willingness to serve. "Oh, no--no--no!" Mrs, Cutting leaned back and shut her eyes. "I was just wondering--you spoke about the new Atlantic," she said. "I have it here!" Margaret had long ago learned to anticipate these languid suggestions. Silence fell in the garden; silence hat is, as much as any brimming jarden ever knows in a western April. Margaret, closing "The Law and the Word," laid the book end and magazine silently on the grass and leaned back in her own chair, glad to rest, and listen to the thous- and voices that began to fill the pause. "Jim?" eaid Mrs. Cutting, sud- denly, opening her eyes.. "Right beyond that clump of snow balls," Margaret supplied. He and Nora are building a village." And, seeing that the anxious look in the other's eyes did mot abate, she called: "Jim--mee!" Immediately a rustling took place in the rich foliage of the snow-balls, A rosy, squarely-built boy of four, with his head a tawny mop of thick hair, and hig small body encased in a brief garment of blue-and-white, appeared, and beamed at Margaret, who was his special chum and fav- orite. "W--0---t?" he called back hold- ly. 'Nothing, darling. Go on play- ing!" Mrs, Cutting called. 'Mummy just wanted to se that you were all right, that was all." The snow-balls quivered again, the Loy was gone. Mrs, Cutting smiled. "He has a nervous Mummy," she admitted. A pleasant place in which to find oneself, mused Margaret, oasking in the restored peace. Her mind moved ahead confentedly; she had not been for three years a resident of this most ordered ahd established of homes, without knbwing exact- ly what to expect between her eizht- o'clock breakfast with Jim 'n the sun-parlor, to the time when she parted with Mrs, Cutting at wight. The afternoon would ripen and decline softly, the shadow and shine moving slowly over the grass. And in a little while Rudolph, extreme- ly correct in his whip-cord, and fol- lowed by the equally correct Moily, would come across the rose-garden, and down the brick steps, and along the walk, Would Mrs, Cutting drive this at- ternoon? "I believe I will!" Mrs, Cutting always said, with an air of intense surprise. Consultation with Mar- garet followed, why need they change? Why not go as they were? "I see no reason why we should not simply get our wraps," Mrs. Cutting always said. Then another problem. they take Jim They usually decided Jim, The drive usually took through beautiful San Matea, Burlingame, sometimes Men- lo Park or Stanford. If they were to make a call, or stop at the club for tea, then Nora would go, to wateh Jim.. In any case they always had a peaceful, dreamy, restful excur- sion, and came back to the house at about six, when Jim was whisked off for bath, supper and bed. Mre. Cutting then must lie down, but Margaret liked to go up to the nursery for the final events of Jim's well-regulated day, Margaret fdolized the hoy, as indeed all the household did, and she was an anx- {ous as Mrs. Cutting to be sure that all went well with him. There had been four little Cuttings hefore Jim four delicate and ill-fated little Cuttings who, all too young, had taken the same path, the path that ended among the white stones upon the Coma hills. Jim was the last. "The last of the Cuttings!" Mrs. Cutting sometimes called him. Mar- garet had been with her zeveral months before she was told, and then by a casual woman at the Country Club, that this radiant child had been adopted, was not a true Cutting, after all. Margaret never made any allus- "ion to it; she could well believe that it gave her employer satisfaction to mafntain the little pretense. And with all her restless, hungry Loart she longed to please gentle, pathe- tic, faded Mrs. Cutting. : "Everybody has been always trying to please bps and keep her in cotton wool, affd she never has done a thing for it, except be born a Crittenden, and marry a Cut- ting!" Margaret would fume, in her angry moods. But in more reason- able moments she almost loved this pale-cheeked, pale-haired, weary- volced aristocrat. Margaret had been with her now for three years, and the older woman depended upon her. indeed, loved her. And Mar- garet in return was gratefnl for her quiet friendship and for the protec- tion of the ugly, aritoratic wooden house under its eucalyptus and wil- low trees. Her gratitude and affection, how- ever, did not extend itself to Mrs. Cutting's nephew and closest rala- tive, Stanley Crittenden, who was like a son in the house, and who would some day inherit most of the estate. Jim would have a gener- ous portion, should his adopted mother die in his minority, but Stan, the popular and beloved, would come in for all the Crittenden money, and the big ranch in the Should to take them Santa Cruz mountains, Margaret, considering Stan and his claims, would say to herse:f im- patiently that it was nothing to her! He was handsome, he was clever and popular and decent-- very well, let him be all this and more, and let him some day marry one of the girls who were so crazy about him, But please--please don't ask her to be so eternally enthusiastiz about him, because he bored her to death! Thus Margaret, in the 2iry priv- acy and silence of her room, or over her book in the garden, or wander- ing about the ranch with Jim's !it- tle warm and in hers, But when Mrs. Cutting spoks of her nephew, Margaret was natur- ally all civil appreciation. She looked at pictures of Stan, "a hor- rible litle prig," she commented mentally upon his dancing velvets, and 'one of those imbecile drippy- mouthed babies!" she thought, of a picture of eigth-months-old Stan, in a shell. She thought him affect- edly rough and untidy in his foot- ball suit--in fact, she did not like him at all, in any guise, So that it was hard to have his aunt eternally praising him, eter- nally inviting responsive praise. Margaret had to arrange dinner parties to suit Stan's preferences, she had to accompany her amployer to Del Monte to see Stan play pole, and to Pebble Beach to play golf. Margaret remained pas- sively polite, when these festivities were in progress. of gay familiarities, praise and af- fection; Margaret despised them. And when, after dinner reappeared freshly brushed powdered in irresistible little flowered chiffon frocks, Margaret would eye them darkly for a few moments, eye them until Stan ap- peared, always handsomest and most at ease in his irrepraachable and first little adorer had surrendered her curls, slippers, bare arms and draperies into his arms, Margaret would retire with a book, assur- ing herself that they were a silly lot--trying to believe that al] this waste of time and money amused them! * The position of Stanley Crittend- himself still eingle, with a large in- come, three or four congenial clubs, and more than comfortable pros- pects, at thirty-two. He was vice- president of the family lumber busi- ness in San Francisco, he worked honestly, and played with even more enthusiasm, and he would have been dull indeed not to realize that he was a universal favorite, His was one of those fortunate natures that give small ground to envy and dislike. He really was the charming, friendly, witty, un- spoiled man he seemed to be, Visit- ing, ladies, at the polo, goit or ten- nis matches, immediately picifed him out, "No, the tall sunburned ore. The one who came into the club today with that English polo man, Yes, that he, 8 the cream-rolorsd eater. ritten . gentler en And is he The visiting ladles would meet him; his world was filled with fair- haired girls who smiled at him and rosy brunettes who "alked sports, Stan lived with his aunt, in Bur- lingame, theoretically. Actually he spent much time with his friends, at his San Francisco Club or where ever inclination took him. At least one night a week found him at Uplands," the famous dairy farm in the Santa Crus. mountains: it had belonged to his grandfa'her, old Ross Crittenden, once; {t had been a rich man's delight and toy. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Cutting had made the farm her sum mer residence; but Stan managed it now, entertained his friends .%ere: her partial claim upon it haa ong ago been ceded to him, as a gift from his aunt. She went there as his guest, This was perhaps the hardest thing for Margaret to accept. She truly loved the big farm, where she and Jim and Mrs. Cutting spent their holidays all year 'ong. And it was hard to think that Stan, with 'all his other good fore tune, was master here. Margaret, liking perhaps to think herself a little his superior, would have been glad to have him scorn the ehabby wooden ranch-house, the homely simplicity that reigned _at *Up- lands." It was somehow oddly dis- concerting to realize that this "pampered poodle," as she some- times called him, was realiy at his happiest and best when he. was there. Mrs. Cutting had Introduced the young people hopefully.. She sould talk to Margaret about anything, all day long, and she hoped to find in Stan a congenial subject. But from the instant of their meeting both Stan and Miss Yorke had shown something almost like hostility. The girl fenced with him, was al- ways nettled agd unnatural in his presence, and Stan, who was accus- tomed to kindness and friendliness, was antagonized by finding a wo- man who did not like him, Darn it, he thought, let her think what she pleased! "But one would think she might be civil. "I don't get her," he assured His aunt. Mrs, Cutting was, upon sec- ond thoughts, not sorry, The girl wae extremely handsome, after all, and armed neutrality was possibly the safest relationship for the palr "She has been a wonderful solu- tion for me," she protested mildly. "I don't know what T should have done without her!' evening dress, and them, bhafore the | gee Stan | to touch--with a bat. Other youag wo- | With my clothes, you know. 'Foote, men would crowd about him, full |there is Mr, Crittenden!' she said they | quarter of a mile's walk home, |8flky hair framed her thin, Intell- en was that of any well-born hand- | some, amiable young man who finds | | straight {beneath her low, wide forehead, and ino wonder!' Stanley Hod "What's her history?" stan had once asked. His aunt, reviewing readily all that she knew, had to admit that it was not much, after Rll. She--Mrs, Cutting--had des- paired, three years. ago, of finding the right woman to help her, with letters, with bills, with socia] re- sponsibilities, and with the recent- Iy-adopted Jim, And this girl, de licate after a severe sickness, haa turned up in California with un- exceptionable letters frora Trow- bridge, the old family lawyer in New York. "Trowbridge couldnt have spok- @h more highly of anyone, Stan; he even said that he would reimburse the girl for her trip here, if she could not place, herself properly. And 1 was just beginning to have my terrible headaches--Jim was really too much for me. You can see that she's a gentlewoman, ehe's absolutely reserved, never talks of herself; in all these years she's been simply wonderful! And it gives me a sort of pleasure to re- spect her and show her that I do," sald Mrs. Cutting, more than once, "and to do everything I can to make her position, comfortable and happy here." "She adores you, Aunt Har, and would tell her. "But oh, what she doesn't think about me!' Stan added, one day. "A skin that you would love I noticed her yesterday, she was with Jim at the club. You'd sent Footo over --Gosh, I can't give the tone! might as well have added, She It's a but he prefers to change here, and keep you patiently waiting, whitla your dinner gets cold!' " "Foote always loves to do any- thing for you, dear,' Mrs. Cutting answered, in mild surprise, "And he dines very late, anyway, so that I'm sure you were mistaken!" Margaret Yorke was a 'all, slend- er, dark girl, with an alert brigut. ness of aspect that belied ber hahit-) ual reserve and silence. Her skin, was a soft, even olive, flushing iu- to exquisite apricot on her high cheek-bone, and her cloud of black gent face llke smoke. Her eyes were a dark Irish blue, set in biack, upcurling long lashes. The fine, black brows almost met her mouth was wide, thin-lipped, scarlet, and strangely disciplined for the mouth of a girl of her age, Her hands were brown, thin, ner- vous and virile, and she used idem beautifully. Stanley, a judge of beauty, had said to himself when he first no- ticed her that she had none. But he had admired the slenderness, the rich color and the quick, nervous grace of her body, and of late her cryptic smile, and her rgvstertous, quite unembarrassed silences had begun to hold an odd charm for him, too. He sald to himself that It she was haughty sh was o darned nice girl, too, always sweet with his aunt and the kid. There had been an August day at the ranch when lie had particul- arly noticed her. She and the child had been discovered swimming, by Stanley and a group of friends he had unexpectedly prought down. He had seen, that day, that the soft, warm, gipsy brown of her ~oloring extended all over her body. and that her arms and legs were heau- tifully made, slim and straight, 1lice a boy's. He had liked the Inak, half-proud and half conrused, with which she had passed them, leading the child. and had remembered for some days the challenging glance of those blue eyes, under the drying, dripping mop of black hair, And then thers had been another day, too, when he had been in his aunt's. rom, in the Burlingame house, and Margaret had come in furred and with her checks rosy from winter alr, and with violets at her breast. She had looked pretty--more than merely pratiy, she had looked startlingly hand- some that day. Since then he had conceded her beauty. But he told himsel? that he did not like the girl--too damm secretive and superior. Aad they regarded each other with a thinly. veiled hostility and a reiuctant re- spect. On this particular April evening, at seven o'clock, Stan and Margaret met by chance, just before dinner. Margaret, after the bed-time riot with Jim, had dressed, and had come out to the terrace for a breath of quiet and solitude after the day. She saw Stan long before he saw her. The tall figure, in its flannels, with the cap pushed off his fore- head as a concession to the untimely heat of the day, moved comfortably yet steadily between the great oaks. He came up the brick steps, and smiled when he saw the dark-hair- ed girl. With almost any other woman of his acquaintance Stan would have found a dozen cheerful, casual things to say. He was incorricibly friendly and was considered same- thing of a wit. But Margaret's mere presence made him feel faint- ly antagonistic and uncomfortable, and he heard himself saying forced- 1y: "Well! yet?' "I don't know, Margaret answer: ed so briefly and coldy that Stan immediately realized that his in- 'nocent query might be conetrued into a suggestion that if Aunt Hat were down-stairs Miss Yorke must necessarily be in attendance upon her, . To obliterate this unfortunate m= My aunt isn't down the brick wall above the lower ter- race, "Peachy, fsn't it?" he ssked, of the garden in the soft dusk. She gave him a quiet side glance, and for one uneasy minute he thought she was not going '0 an- swer him, except with that dispas- sionate look. That then she ald: "It is beautiful, The nicest hour of the day, I think." 2 "I do, too!' Stan said enthusiasti- cally, He wanted her to say one thing more, to prove tp his satisfac tion that Miss Yorke could not snub him into silence with her eirs, and then he would rush in and dress. But to his annoyance she was plac- idly still, "You've--you're lived niost of your life in the country?" Stan haz- arded. : Again there was that disquieting silence. « The dark eyes moved thoughtfully to his face. Margaret said simply: "Oh, no. No, most of my child- hood was spent in New York City: my father died when I was quite small, and Mother--Mother and I Bved there.' Something wistful, something al- most shaken, in the tone with which her voice lingered upon the repeat- word, stirred Stan. "You've lost your mother, Yorke?" 'Eight years ago." . "You and ghe were alone " Stan ventured. Margaret was silent for a long space. But he did not fesl hostility now. He knew that she was re- membering--gathering words, "I had to begin living again, just as I would if you picked me up now, and put me down in the centre of a Zulu village," she said slowly. "There was not 'a book--not a friend--not a moment's wok or pleasure, upon which we were not united. She was a woman who put joy into everything--Mother. And when she went--when she went-- "She 'had gone to a hospital," Margaret went on, as {f she were thinking aloud; "she had had a heavy cold. The doctor thought that was all--at rst. And--this Sunday afternoon, they began sud- denly to he so gentle--oh, you don't know what that is! You don't know what that is! "It was an April night--Ilike this one, balmy and soft And the street below the hospital window--I re- member thinking that some day I would tell her how I had watched that, street when she was sickest! I turned back to the chart--I'd hung over that chart, of course, and I re- member the nurse saying--so gert- ly, "I don't believe I'd read that, Miss Yorke!" "l went over.. and beside the -bed....' The faltering voice stopped. Stan saw the brown thin hands wrung in a passionate clasp. There was utter silence on the terrace, "Well," sald Margaret nfter a while, in a voice cleared by the storm, "we must go in." They turned, in the gloom, with- out another word, without any com- mént from Stan. But when they reached the dark bushes and the Impenetrable blackness of the curv. ing, vine-swathed steps that led up to the porch, the man suddenly felt his hand grasped tirmly by those nervous fingers, She needed his guidance in the dark. Inexplicably thrilled, he tighten- ed his big hard hand over hers, Jt was for but a moment; in a few seconds they were crossing the old- fashioned, wooden-halustraded piazza, and blinking in the yellow warm 'lights of the siting-rcom. (Continued tomorrow) CHANGES MADE IN DIVORCE RULES Miss knelt down Jury Trial Permitted; ance of Decree Nisi is Authorized Toronto, Nov. 25--With 51 ap- plications for divorce piled up awaiting the attention of courts in Toronto, and a number in other Ontario points, judges of the Supreme Court have cleared the decks for action. At a conference in Osgoode Hall, they completed the revision of the rules of proce- dure which will guide the conduct of trials in the immediate future. Three major changes in the con duct of divorce actions were made, Trial of the action by a Jury is the unexpected introduction in the new rules, either party having the right to serve j@ry notice on the other. At the same time, however, the trial judge may in his discre- tion decide on non-jury trial when all parties concerned consent, As had been anticipated after meeting of representatives of the benchers and the judges, the at- torney-general is no longer a de- fendant to every action Instead. the trial judge issues a judgment nisi which is not made absolute for six months, so as to allow the attorney-general or anyone else to Intervene and show reason for the | Judgment not being made absolute. Then the solicitor's affidavit, in which he swore to his belief in the 'ruth of the plaintiff's statements, nd which aroused such. feeling Among some of the profession, fis 'eleted. Notwithstanding these additions, the rules are still thought to leave pression he loitered beside her at in doubt the question of alimony and custody of children, as well as Whe relevance of the Shaw amend. ment of 1925 which would elemin- ate any double standard in reas- ons for judgment, GOCKSHUTT MAY United States Capital Hopes For Early Action on Waterway Washington, Nov. 25.--An un- confirmed report that Col. Henry Cockshutt. former Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario, would be named minister to Washington, could Cock- It Col. today. that ernment circles not be learned '| shutt's name had been presented to the United States Government. Tt was pointed out he had heen men tioned as a possible successor to Hon. Vincent Massey several weeks ago. Some officials of the United States Government expect the post vacant since last June, will be fill- ed soon after return of Premier R, B. Bennett to Ottawa thelr assump- waterways project will bear early fruit, The St. Lawrence In Washington is the question of the moment be- tween Canada and the States. President Hoover's admin. istration is always favorably dis- posed toward the project | | by the banks to the wheat pools | amply | | further | continuing credit facilities a | tofore. | KIDNAPPING TALE | by | ship | been kidnapped | Crown | the matter thoroughly, NEXT WAR WIL! SEF DEATH RAY Will Be Conflict of Chemists and Physicists, Britain Told Liverpool, Eng., Nov. 23 The "next world war," the British As | sociation of Chemists was told, will | be a war of chemists and physicist fn which a "death ray" will be more | than an imagined possibility, | "After the experiences of the | world war," said Henry Rhods editor of a chemical journal, *"no-| hYody can be foolish enough to sup-| nose that full use will not he made | in the next war of the latest chemi- cal and physical disgoveries. "Researches are now being con- ducted with invisible rays of such power that they would be sapable of | exterminating whole, populations, | Britain must be chemically prepar- | ed for if the country were threat- | ened and war declared, its outcome | would be determined by the condl- tion of the dye-stuff industries, cap able of being transformed in a mo- ment to an industry for the manu facture of lethal gases." | LOANS TO WHEAT POOL AMPLY SECURED "Contrary to | which wees | late, advances are gecured," said Beaudry Le man, president of the Canadian | Bankers' Asociation, here today, He | stated that the banks are here Montreal Nov. 25 uninformed opinion been expressed of NOT CONFIRMED Guelph, Nov. 25. Unable to obh- tain corroboration of a story told Helen Diamond, Minto Town- to the effect that she had and. left by the roadside near Forwich, a weck wmgo, Crown officials are taking no action in the matter, County Attorney J. M. Kearns sald Police have 'Investigated Mr. Kearns today. said. | FIVE MONTHS' HUNT FOR SLAYER SUCCEEDS Edmonton. Nov, 25. --Traced for months at the request of British Issu- | Columbia authorities, Karl Fred- | ericks, a trapper, has been arrested | at Moon Lake, south of Evanshurg, | Alta., by Constable Burton of the Alberta Provincial Police and charg ed with the murder of Herman Pet- ers and Max Westphal at Trembleui | Lake, B.C., last June: INVITE FARMERS T0 TAKE JOBLESS Land Settlement Board Hopes Deferred Work May Be Started Now Nov. 20.--As a further unemployment relief he instru- Ottawa, measure of ' mp sy vhich it is hoped h ] a in finding: at least tempor: ary jobs for 10,000 to 15,000 men, the publications Drago of te Der yvartment of Agriculture f . a NLNIE with the Land Settle ment Beard in placing men on farms, With the Winter edition of "Seasonable Hints," which is mailed to more than 460,000 Eng- lish-and 227,000 French farmers in Canada, a form of application for farm help is being enclosed, A notice accompanying this form calls attention to the num- ber of men seeking farm work and says, in part: "Most of these men Rave only limited farming experi- ene, but as a rule they are not ex- pecting wages out of proportion to their experience. They are anxious to find a means of livelihood dur- ing the Winter and appreciate the fact that farmers themselves are passing through hard times and (0 TO WASHINGTON was received with interest in gov- | | Kent counties, | eutting away the banks very rap- | tion being based on the belief that | | promised consideration of the St | Lawrence United | ! Prescott, actively into the life insurance field | by can only afford to pay wages ac cording to useful service render- ed" Many farmers in need of help will benefit through the service it is expected, and many others, it is hoped, will be induced to under- take some work of improvement which ordinarily would be deferred until a later date, TO EXPERIMENT WITH BEACH PROTECTION (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Windsor, Nov. 25.--Announce- ment has been made by Austin B. Smith, M.L.A.. of Kingsville, that the federal and provincial govern- ments plan to spend some ten thousand dollars experimenting with different types of beach pro- tection at Point Pelee. This is taken as an indication that the governments have became interest- ed in preventing erosion of the shore of Lake FErie, Essex and The lake has been idly and in both counties there have heen heavy losses through tion of the North American Life, of which he is President, was a | business development of importance , here. T. A. Russell, Vice-President of the company, was appointed Acting | President in charge of the Massey- | Harris company's affairs, | FIGHT FOLLOWS BORDER BAPTISM (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Windsor, Nov. 25.--Bill- Kaliba- | ba, near Leamington and 311 | Craig, Leamington are suffcfing from bad cuts and Dennis Toto- myer is under arrest as result of a | free-for-all fight, The controversy took place at the home of Pete | Buroski, in New Margh, during the celebration of a christening. Leam- ington police and later provincial police investigated and made the arrebt. Kalibaba has knife wounds | about the head and under one eye | while six stitches were reouired | to close a wound in Craig's hand. The cause of the scrap has not heen ascertained, the water encroaching on reclaim- {ed lands. WORKMAN KILLED BY | CONCRETE MIXER | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Brockyille, Nov. 25.--Robert Easter, 25, employed on the con- struction of the high school at was Instantly killed there Monday when he was drawn into a large concrete mixer engaged on the work, witnessed the accident when assistance reached was too late to save Kaster's life It is thyught that the sleeves his clothing became caught in the. machine, He is survived by his wife and one child and an inquest, opened by Dr, C. F. McPherson, coroner, has been adjourned until Tuesday. Dec 2. 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