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_ ASTALLMRNT © It was five o'clock of an August day; but Helen Heather came down the steps of the gray stone bank| © tt Kingsway as lightly as though "the day was just beginning. ' "Good-bye, Marjorie. I told Nina I'd be nome as fast as I could--I have to hurry." A ' She smiled, and. gave Marjorie's arm a caressing little pat, Sho swung down the street, slim and tall and buoyant in her demure dark silk office dress 'with-its broad organdy collar and cuffs; the sun shone in her eyes, but it seem- sd to her only warm and cares- ving, after the thick-walled stone Lpank, Tommy had told her yester- day that her eyes turned mottled topaz when tlie sun lighted them like that, ' Helen had been feeling this cur- tous tension of joy for a week or 30 now. But it wasn't all being in iove. Because she had been In love all summer, and she hadn't felt like this. She walked on past the busi. ness section of the town, taking the bug about a mile to the part of Kingsway where her cousin Nina's home was, Jt was a beautiful old house; dating back, indeed; to the colonies, and rebuilt and restored by Nina Higginson into a museum---~piece of perfection. The turf was green vel. * vet, from the reverent care of two hundred years, Somebody's ancest- | org---nnt Nina's---had felt a pas- sion for seeing travellers puss, travellers having heen scarce enough to be a pleasure in colonial Pennsylvania, Nina fretted a little "'over the shallowness of the stretch "of lawn, thesefore, and had masked "it with a thick hedge. The green turf was very lovely, with its golden overtones, and the stiff beds of old-fashioned floveersy ! swoet-willlams and johnny-jimp- ups and love-Hes bleeding that had . beep there since before the nld owners' ancestors entertained ' Washington. There were acres of | ground at the back and sides of . the Mouse. 1t was, indeed, nearly i At not quite an estate, It had, in- 'feed, once heen a very good farm, Nina, with the admiration and cash of the old husband now no more, had lanscaped it in a way which | would have irritated the other peo- | ple"s ancestors very much, She covered the-exeellent wheat lands | . with arbors and such things. There © were trees, not where trees had been but where trees according to designs in books ought to be. It vas altogether a lovely, If slightly _ stiff stage setting, though it was | , unofficially more becoming to tall | wivid Helen thag to little fies. | moying Nina,_ . To the big, raw-honed woman who emerged uncermonious- | slim white | © pillars as Helen came up the walk ly from between the the place was not at all hécoming, She was cook and working house miling over the love-words in it. 'or Jessien meant them, every bit, he honestly worshipped Helen and love was nluch more of & neces. ty to Helen than clothes or any thing else in the world. { Sho worked hard for them both. \ 1At the bank, where she was secre- tary to the president, In her cous. in's house, though charm hua as [much effect on Nina Higginson as on a rock, and Nina liked Helen 'as much as she would anyway. {Among the girls and men of the town of Kingsway, on whom charm (did have an effect, and who follow- |ed after Helen more than she knew, She tried to be everything Mr, Delamater liked in a secretary, ex- cept staid, She took on gayly the scraps of responsibility at the house, iwhich were left over from Tacy |Broomall"s capable rule. j_ "I suppose I ought to scold her. {But she'd feel badly," sald Helen, folding the letter, She laughed a little, } Her father's people were of suf- iflefently good stock, But her moth- ler's wera better, if you happened fo believe that stock counted for pnything in man or beast, | Helen never forgot the day when Jher too-gallant, too-spendthrift Mather had sold the down-at-hwe! | immense old house his wife haw {brought him, pictures, sparse price less furniture and all, and of course, put the money into something | [wonderful 'that it, aleo of course, | | never came out of, Things always { Jiannened to him lke that. Her mother cried, off hy her |self; when passionately affection late little Helen found her suoving fn her bedroom, her mother had {sat up and gone tn the dressinr- table, and powdered her face and rouged her cheeks and smiled. And she had gone down. to where her husband -walted for lier a lit- tle shamefaced and apolagetic, and fuace him laugh over something. {| She' had laughed to the tired end, that old fashioned lady moth er! ; ;. George Heather outlived hla wife some yoars, Helen never told anybody that it was her motner's fnsurance, painfully kept up through heaven knows what econ omies, which saw first her and then reluctant Jessica through vam. ness school, She carried lax, lazy, caressing Jessica, too, till Jessica iad married an anxiously adoring | jboy, who worked in a real estate office and was her slave, | And lately: why, lately, since (Nina had sent for Helen to come ond live with her, these past years, everything had lifted, Everything had been happy and wonderful, "You're nice to have around, and elderly] iyou have social instinct, "Nina had written with her usual frankness, "I'm still. elimbing a little, ana you'll be a help. Come ready to re- tite pages of ancestry, like a lamp; I'll only charge what your food keeper. Hor name was Tacy Broom- | costs, and I have a joh all ready for all, and she was Pennsylvania from coil of dull brown hair, the kind back-couutry | her enormous! ' you, I'm nearly sure." £0 Helen had accepted the terms and coam to Kingsway, and got the which never thins not grays, to the | Job, secretary to Mr, Amos Dela. round toes of her shiny black *com- | fort" shoes, She was entirely une categorical and to certain people mater, the president of the bank. And out of hours she had had sueh a good time! Friends. Laughter, ; f "Wier manner had more thay a toucu! These quieter Pennsylvanians look. of "the "I'm as good as you" of primitive America. Dut she cooked with a French passion of creative ness and intelligence, which made 'her dinners a hig soclal asset for ing at her wide-eyed, following her wild and laughing 1ead.,,.Tom- my's, Bhe pald Nina her small board, and acted as secretary and companion, and seemed to enjoy it Ning. 80 Nina let it go at that, he-| #11 very much indeed. And she had s Ung a very clever woman, and pass- 'ed off Tacy's more determined ges- tures of equality with small hum- orous etories at which her guests shrieked, Tacy was on terms with her mistress. But she rave Helen more than neutrality; friendly Helen who was alway f17- ing Into the kitchen with magazines and scraps of news, and pralsing her menus and asking her about * her cousins in Lower Duplin ana ~ Pennypack, o "Letter for you, Helen," she paid, giving it to her. "You'rs back © early. That's right. You go too _ "herd, child." 4 "All right, Taey, observe that 1 recline in yon swing seat and relax completely while reading letter!" . Helen smiled over her shoulder at i he i 1 i Tacy. "You're a darling to worry 1 about mé, It's from my ttle sist- #) » / ol Jonsica, Helen's younger sister, had margied casually at seventeen, "and it had rever occured to her 'that her elder sister shouldn't go on helping her whep she needed it. This letter was an adorable cry of thanks for the money to catch Jes- sica and Lester up ¢n the install- ments on the new bedroom set they'd bought in one of their ac- 'cesses of optimism when Lester 'Lad 'hig 1ast raise, Now, sald Jessica rapturokiy, she wasn't going to have to ask Helen for a cent for- ever and ever again, and she Was neutrally goo®| though he was 'won Kingsway village, in her year 'there, and Kingsway village look- ed with approval on her likelihood of winninw spofied Tommy Dele mater, social and financial prize of the younger crowd, She slid through the long win. dow, and daeched up to her room to fly Into her red georgette and run a comb through her burnt-gold curls, In tive minutes Tommy De- lamater would be coming down the road, { Being on the edge nf actual en- | gagoement ic a delightful time, He! en was not quite sure, hut sure enough to be a little proud, a little moeking, and to show an intenser depth and eolor and sparkle. And to flirt Just a little more with the | other boys. But when it was Tom. my who was near, the depth and foley and sparkle Meightened four- old. f Even now, at the thought of Tommy --Tommy stopping by to | take her with. him, to go out and , secure a final effect of fading light for the little motion pleture cam- era which was his newest enthusi- asm, her heart quickened, He was tall and slouching and big-boned, His face was homely and [yet somehow handsome at times, (despite the irregularities of nose and high cheek bones and hatchet Jaw, | He was i1ather an unnerving-- certainly an exciting person, Well zending her the most beautiful red | les she knew him, easy-going Helen coat with a fur collar and those a unning new deep cuffs, and all love. Helen's brow knitted a little at ibis. Because she'd been planning have her own good fur coat done or, and now she couldn'tee «08, me), St was sweet of Joss! a, Falt-consciously found herself get- ting along with him, adjusting to ihim, smoothing him down, She {usver knew whether extravagant (flattery. or furious, uncslied-for gomper wag coming 'uppermost. 'Back of every yuood was & dash of faaralisiingapweetness, the swest le Abd Helen read the letter again,)ness of the spoilt little Boy whe knows you won't be angry. And finally, bal? the girls of Kingsway had tried to marry Tommy before Helen Heather came up from Maryland to keep her widowed cousin company and work at the First National Bank for Amos De- lamater, Helen, who would nave been more than human it she had- n't been a little proud of Tommy's preference, Tommy! 8he leaned out from the porch half unconsciously, He would come loping along in a minute now, with his camera over his should. er and his tripod sticking out ef his pocket. But {s wasn't Tommy after all. It was only Mr. Kingsway, for whose great.great-grandfather the town had been named, She watched him with dimmed interest, He walked with a yulek trained grace, instead of Tommy's lovable rocking lope, and the sun shone on falr, slightly ruffled halr instend of polished blackness. He was straighter than Tommy, and more strongly built, and every. thing, from his felt hat to his gray suit, had a perfection that to Hel. ou seemed annoying precision, She wouldn't have mindea &ny- body but Ethan Kingsway. Ethan, whose manner to Helen always had something disturbing In it; Ethan, the only man Halen knew by whom she didn't fee! approved. He was supposed rather to dislike all wo men. It wasn't that he wasn't polite to them, It was rather, that his politeness had In it a something cool, detached, Heo did not avold women, For Ethan to pay n girl at- tention wag a cachet: at the same time it was so clearly attention without intention that only the most confident or the most foolisn hoped for any chance of becoming the mistress of the heautiful an clent Kingsway estate, the exce!l- lent Kingsway {neome, and the best social position in town, . "Why it should be me he has fit in for," she said aloud, petulantly. "when it was Nina who broke her engagement to him at the mature age of twenty-one,' and married Horace, before he even knew lived! And he's as easy and nice with her as you please, and always assumes I'm the lowest form ot! stanardized flapper)" She sat down, crossed her knees ostentatiously, reached into her handbag and began to make very Sek lashes which she preferred, usually, as they were, being brown. gold and Jong enough bf nature, She liked shocking people who dis- approved of her. Especially such imneccable ones ag Ethan, He was #0 impeccable! He own. 6d a limestone quarry, alse coal lands near Wilkes-Barre He own. ed a beautiful walled estate on the outskirts of the town; the town named for Is forebears, had grown un near it. He played polo very well, Fe belonged to the Rose Valley hunt, and was a good rider, He also possessed an invalid mother whom Nina didn't like, and a luxurious dark-green roadster which she did, You couldn't go on' roughing your mouth forever, She eyed him under the freshly mascaraed lashes as he sauntered whistling up the walk, She picked up the tune and be- gan 10 sing softly, in her pretty light volce: "I had a litle nut-tree-- Nothing would it bear, But a sliver nutmeg And a golden pear, The King of Spain's daughtet = She came to visit me ! Alf for the sake of my Tittle nut-tree-" "Do you know that?" he sald with what sounded almost a pleased surprise/ "I thought nobody knew nursery rhymes any more," 'Of course I know it." said Helen with spirit, "Why wouldn't I. My mother used to sing me to sleep with ft." "Why do you suppose the Kir of Spain's daughter came to viait? Why wasn't it any other person?" "I'll tell you the reason, I hope ~=gome other time, But now---mil You #ive your cousin a message for "Anything," sald Helen, yawning with an exaggerated carelessness, "If 1 ean remember. 1've héen 80Ing to parties day and night." "1 know," be sald, 4 "Do you know everything 1 do?" she sald a little angrily. "Not quite all," he said a Vittie gravely. "I wish I Knew less." "Why do you always bave to say such things to me?' she sald. "Other people like me--why can't gl What do I do that's so dread- "Nothing but what girls are sup. posed to do today," he sald, "I'm mot a Puritan," flashed, "Neither am 1." he said. "My people, as a matter of fact, were Cavaliers." "He looks it," Helen admitted to herself unwillingly. The tall strong grace, the crested fair hair, the long stosl-gray eyes that Jooked half. smiling 411 you esi closer; dh fen. 'this. I| #sten." Helen | Ls manner of absolute poise ang, Far, the ¥nisdth capadls tamed! hand that should have held a plumed hat instead of a tweed cap. "I suppose," Ne said as If he didn't want to, "that I'm always, wanting you to be what you look, like--~and act like--" 'What is that?" | He spoke, suddenly; almost, she thought, as it he liked her. "The King of Spain's Daughter," was all he sald. And then, hurriediy, as if he wanted her to forget it, Will you tell Nina for me, please, that I'm called out of America sud. denly on business? I came by on my way to the Country Club to asl her forgiveness in gerson for hav. ing to cancel a dinner engagement for next Wednesday, Tell her I will write, but add my very reat personal regrets, please." l "Surely." sald Helen, smiling up at him, "Shall you be gone long?" "It's uncertain," he sald. "Why are you going, really?" | 'One reason would amuse you too much for me even to tell you, The other is that I am summoned, Tam afraid, to assume a small but troublesome responsibility." "But you work so hard at re spons!ities now that you are never to be asked to any of my parties--only Ninh's!" "Who told you that?' he de manded, "I confess I envy you twenty-year-olds - your beautiful sense that you needn't do anything! unless it amuees you." Helen was suddenly furious with him, It was always so, Some-\ thing in him would draw her, would | disturb her, as if-a friend wore fust behind the fencer's steel, then he world say some such thing as, It Le knew----she resented,' yot smiled a little, thinking of Jess sica, and Nina and Ronny Higgine| son, and even Tommy-=all mere or lesg turning to her for help, being looked after; all saying what a darling she was! | Bho shrugged her shonlders, flip pant with a ghllant effort. "I'd; rather he onything than be thought) Viatorian!" "You won't he," sald Mr. Kings way. '"Youwmre about as Vietorlan! as the Sphinx, jood-bye, Miss She watched the erect slender figure ' moving down the tree-shaded old street, Arms clutched her violently from beind. "Beware," sald Tommy's voice, melodramatically, 'stare not #0 sternly on the King of Kings way, or a terrific doom shall be thine, rash worm!" I She gave hersel?! with relief to the tide of possessive glamour which came with Tommy's 'voice! and touch, { "Worm yourself," she retorted. "You've proved it, wasting fifteen literally shining minutes when you might be taking shots, crawling | round by the pack of the house just | fo scare me, Don't you know you, can't scare me, idiot?" H Tommy Delamater swung her round, and faced her i "You get sweller to look at every | time I take my eyes off you for two | minutes," he announced. "Ges! | I'm nuts over you, Ready? C'-; mon," 8he stood up and set on her head' the wide transparent black straw hat she had pought last week nich lay ready, and they drove away to- gether. A branch of the Wissahice kon wound within driving distange, and Tommy wanted tosee if some) | of it wouldn't look like an ocean, properly treated. They took a shot or so, i! "Matter of fact," sald Tommy en. | zagingly, "I don't care whether we get shots or not, 1 just wanted to be with you." "Did you"? said Helen, With anybody else she could have thought up wonderful comebacks, but her heart was pounding so that she was just being dumb, The spirit of coquetry came back a little. Mustn't lot him think you cared 100 much ' She stepped back from the bould- er on which she had been, suppos- edly, looking for scenery, stared across the river with imitation ine difference, and began to bum somethiag under her breath, She went on, 'The words follow« ed the tune, and she began to re- member what it was it turned out to be, of all things, the nursery thy. me Ethan Kingsway had whistled: the one her mother had used to sing her to sleep with, She finished it defiantly: i { "The King of Epain's daughter, She came to visit me | | All for the sake of my Little nut-tree!' | Tommy strode up and dows, sie ent and sulkily, for a mouent, Then, As she finished, bis mood changed with characteristic sude denness, and he threw an arm around ber and laughed. ' "Funny song. Who taught it to you?" il She turned vound, to see if he was too jealous for comfort or not jealous enough, She decided that it was the former. "Why Tommy Delamater, where you done born'n" raised? Don i sou! bid Mother Goose when you hear "To tell you the {ruih, Helen, 1 Lats nursery rhymes ansliow, even --------n "we a aE ATE we Fawr. iis a | the name on the cove of § Book. The only one I ever knew Was the, one my nurse used to tease me with' when I'd been punished, or made; fun of, or she was angry at me," "Say ft?" "Oh, you know {t----everybody does, ' "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! All the King's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back! again!" fe always sang it at me whenever I was in trouble. She'd singsong it over and over whenever I was {in wrong, and say mean things like 'Aha, who's had the conceit taken out of him now * Helen laughed. "Oh, Tommy! Nothing will ever take the conceit out of you, darl- ing! Not all the king's horses--"" "Helen, do you really think I'm conceited?" "I was just ragging," said Hel. en, with her passion for smoothing people down, and especially mak. ing her Tommy happy. "Helen, you never would stop liking me, would you? Not for all the king's horses?" "Not for one," sald Helen lights iy, "supposing any king to have any horses any more." "Old Kingsway has. Tommy's mind went off at a tangent, "Two hunters and more polo ponies than anybody has a right to. TI don't geo why Dad won't let 'me have one." "Your car cost a lot, didn't it? How'd you like to be a poor worke fug girl like me?" "Not all the king's horses and all the king's men could tear me from you...." "Helen, be serious," "All right, I will, Angel, tims we went back." 3he got resolutely {nto the car, Tommy protested, and then, beside lier, tried to turn the car up & Dare row hilly road, {ostead of the Drive. It was '".e way to a little secluded open place, surrounded delightfully by woods and crags and crossad by a trickling rivulet (rom the river, strayed here no- body knw wlane.. Nobody else seemc 1 to he discovered it, It was thelr favorite plenicking ground, "There is lots of daylight' he sail (nvitingly. it's Im 'We cant*Tommy," Helen proe tested. 'Nina expects me." When ghe was firm=-which was very rarely=Tommy gave in. They turned the little car at the very entrance to their dell, and went back to Kingsway. All the way back Helen chatters ed feverishly about anything and eo, orything, Tommy went on with his lovemaking, For no good rea son that she knew, Helen, excited, bappy, in love with him, yet pare ried {tL ali until, as he left her on their return, he caught her again by her shoulder, none too gently and shor' her with what came be- ing near genuine irritation, "Next time you won't get off so easily, Showdown, madam, or I walk out on you for good. Think that out!" With a final, <ulck, violent and public kis he was gone 2d Hel en, who would have resented such carualness in anyone else in the wuld, stood for a momen' to let the swirl of daszsling excitement about her steady down, then enter- «1 th, barge, fl To Be Continued BUSINESS OUTIOOK The Fiancial Post reviews the business situation in Canada as fol lows: Commodity Prices! Hog market To Relieve Catarrhal Dealness And Head Noises If you have catarriial deafness or head noises go to your druggist and got 1 oz. of Parmint (double strength), and add to it % pint of hot water, and a little sugar. Take 1 tablespoonful four times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. Clogged nuostrils should open, breathing become easy and the mu. cous stop dropping into the throat, It is easy to prepare, costs little and is pleasant to take. Anyone who has catarrhal deafness or head noises should give this pre- scription a trial. , i strengthens after drop to lowest level since 19186. Iron and Steel: Railway contracts will keep manufacturers busy for some weeks. Car Loadings: Total in 1031 to date is 16.4 p.c. under same period in 1830, Employment! slight; demand being for workers, Fu, Stock Markets: Reaction from February high level is gradual, Credit: Requirements of industry and traders comparatively small. Week's Highlights: Reports from Ottawa suggest 4 or 6 p.c. sales tax with few exemptions rather than turnover tax. Improvement skilled Mills now Operating Carleton Place ~The former Haw- thorn Mills in Carleton Place will hereafter be known by the new firm name of George H. Hirst Co, Can- ada, Limited, All departments in the new mill are now in operation and the pay roll includes close to a hundred names, SSR Much Relief Given Kingston. --The Salvation Army re- lief fund has provided nearly 700 tickets, since the Beginning of this winter, for rooms and meals for men seeking assistance, The number of men who have received aid comprises a larger number than this however, as in some cases two names were listed on one ticket. Killed by Falling Tree . Brockville~Daniel O'Connell, an Irish lad, aged 18 years, and only out from his native land, was killed by a falling tree while working in the bush on the farm of James Fisher, near Kenmore, a few days ago. Caretaker Dies * Port Hope.~John Elliott, lifelong resident of Port Hope and caretaker of the Port Hope Post Office build- ing, died at his residence on Friday. Deceased had been ailing for some time as a result of kidney trouble and his ailment became serious during the past three weeks and he passed quictly away the otheg morning. Homes Destroyed Lindsay.~Fire which broke out in the house of George Burridge, of Coboconk, accounted for the de-! struction of two homes and 'caused slight damage to a third building in the small village of Coboconk Na fire fighting equipment or water was available so the residents of the vile lage threw snow on the walls and roofs of the buildings. Seeking Highway Norwood.--The vinages of Nore wood and Marmora have joined with the city of Peterboro and Havelock in petitioning the Ontario Departe ment of Highways to continue the construction of the provincial highe way which the Peterboro county council has asked the Department to suspend, : Fire Under Floor Kingston ~The firemen were called to 277 Rideau street, the home oceu- id by Mrs, D. Esford and owned y M. Susman. Fire had broken out under the flooring in one of the bed- rooms due to overheated stove pipes. The fire threatened to cause consid- erable damage at one time but the prompt arrival of the Fire Department and their subsequent work kept the damage down to a minimum, | Be Prepared For | Night Emergencies Of course, during the day, you can rush to our store und get those needed "first aids" for emergency cases. But {t is more important to be prepared for emers gencles during the . late hours of the night when our store is closed, A well stocked medicine cabinet is a great convent. ence-and a real protection. Let us help you fill it with the best the market affords before the need arises for such items as: Absorbent Cotton, Liniment, Iodine, Medicated Gauze, Hygeol, Hot Water Dottles, Fever Thermometers, Etc. 'We specialize in the prompt and accurate filing of prescriptions Kam's Drug Store Next P.O. 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Corporations, Joint Stock Come panies and Associations, in addi. tion to filing their returns as employers on Form T4, are also required by law to file on Form TS a complete return of any divi. dends or bonuses paid or credited to shareholders during the calen- dar year 1930. Any responsible officer of a Corporation may sign these returns, Penalty for failure to file this re- turn on or before March 31st next $10.00 for each day of default 1f there is anything in the Income Tax Information Forms which you do not understand, any Inspector of Income Tax will gladly explain what is required. The Department of National Revenue "rn - Hon. £ B. RYCKMAN, KC. Minister of National Revenue, Income Tax Division OTTAWA C, 8. WALTERS Commissioner of Income Tax"