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{Ontario DOMINION DAY "CELEBRATED IN SPITE OF HEAT Pickering Community Pic- 2 nic Was Successful Al- though Weather Was Torrid (Jean Clark, Correspondent) Pickering, July 5.--Owing to the crowd at- & tending the Dominion Day cele- bration in the village, was not as large as usual, but nevertheless, a "wery successful picnic was held. The activities began early at the Government yards at the west-end of the village and travelled along Memorial Park, where the celebration was This was followed by an afternoon and evening. of The between Thornton's Corners and Pickering was won by the local boys with a The girls' Courtice 'girls and the local team was call- ted after three innings, when one | fof the Pickering players fainted | will The the + Cherrywood team from Pickering horse-shoe the fneatching of the greasy piz, apd the chickens, proved quite popu- Uxbridge band was present, cand after heading the parade to z the grounds, provided an abund- | stance of splendid music, both after- the scevening a varied and popular pro- gram was provided by the Harvey Rafferty and Curly Squires, Whitling One of nt the novel features of the day was s the introduction of a mysterious He could be cap- as tured on the grounds between the hours of 6 p.m, and 7 p.m. by anv- «One carrying a balloon purchased , fram the picnic committee, Young «and old alike joined in the search. % . Which was finally ended when Mrs, the . mysterious ~entleman in the per- n+80n of Mr. Garnet Courtice, there the ten-dollar prize During the day the booths selling a cool drinks and ice cream, were "the intense heat, the highway to the taking place, various kinds. game games of "boys' baseball margin of one run. 4 baseball game between 'with the heat. "take place at tafootball game was The game a later date, won by # Beach boys. The d:pitching contest and also solar. arnoon and early evening. In 4 Brothers, Pat Nixon, comedians: Bill banjoist, and Holley Ryan, soprano soloist. a~ Mr, Pickering. James Mitchell discovered - by winning | her mother and brother, | Burrell and R. Burrell. iy children, of i daying in the village. dence of R. H. month of July. and daughter, visitors to the village, on Wednes- day. Clark, and attending | in Paris this week, serious accompanied by of her day sixty-seventh life in by one sister, Mrs and of Lepoy, Ont. Another Sunset-- Another Sunburn? When you go away for a holiday, out into the wide open spaces, you usually be. » come "Sun-worshippers,"' * taking as much sun as yon can get, This often results painfully to your "indoor" skin unless happily, you have called at the Rexall Store before you left and procured a lotion to prevent sunburn. Take along one of these fine preparations when you go next time to take the "Sun treatment." You will then do it comfort- ably. Hoc 50¢ BoOe 39¢ 0c Gypsy Cream Unguentine Almond Bloom Cream, French Balm 25¢ & . Grey's Balm 50c & Carron Oil 25¢ SAVE WITH SAFETY AT THE REXALL STORES. | Jury & Lovell Simcoe St. Phone 68 King Street. Phone 28 ago St. | G. Clark, of Brantford, | Mrs. M, 8. afternoon, the Mission in Oshawa, was pres ent interesting | talk on her well patronized, but that selling tea was sadly neglected. Mrs. Thos. Douglas, of Toronto, spent a few days this week with Mrs. A Migs Glenna Gilmour, ,of Dun {'bartom, is visiting her friend, Miss Ethel Bray. Mr. and Mrs. J. O'Connor and Belleville, are holi- Rev, F. A. and Mrs. Lawson and family, of Toronto, formerly of Pickering, have taken the resi- Cronk for the Mr. and Mrs. R. [. Thexton and daughter, Margaret, of Toronto, were in the village on the holiday. Mr, and Mrs, T. M. McFadden of Durham, ware Mr and Mrs. W. J. Clark, H. J. Miss Nora spent the week-end with A, H, Clark family of Lakefield, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Marquis, of L.epoy, and Mr. and Mrs. J. per. of Keswick, spent days with Mr, and Mrs, Jas, - drew, owing to the death of their sister and aunt, Miss Annie Mar quis. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wrig Holtsville, California, ing with Mr. and Mrs. M man. They expect to spend summer with friends in Canada Mr. Harold Richardson, of T ronto, spent the holiday in the vil lage. Miss Ethel Bray, Peterboro school, is holidaying at her home here, Miss Louise Rorke and Miss Ma rion Clarke, of Toronto, were in the vi e one day this week Mr, fc Hames, of formerly of the village spent Wed who has heen Toronto nesday herve R. Whithy are owing to the the former's Mr. and Mrs, G illness of father. ' Mr. Arthur Boyes went to Min esing this week to operate the rol ler on the highway there. He wa Mrs. Beye who is spending a short time with h there, home Thurs There passed away at the brother-in-law on July 2, Annie Marqu vear. The deceased had been in poor health for number of years, but the end eam: suddenly. t | of the late She was the daugh Mr. and Mr Marquis, and had lived Pickering Township life-long member Church She: is sur James Andrew two brothers, William, of Washington District, and H. A brother, Char was a Paul's | les, died in Winnipeg a few wee Interment took place in the | Methodist cemetery on Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs, Murphy and My spent. the week-end with Paul | Murphy, The monthly meeting fof th United Church W.M.8 Aook the form of. a picnic at thé home o Chapman, on [rida Miss Mayowna, from and gave a very work in community missions. She was dressed in he native costume, and told thing of the hue in har homeland AGED WOMAN DIES Mrs. Adelia Cronk, widow of the late Stephen Cronk. pa away at her home in Pickering some Tp. on Thursday, July 2nd.. in her | ninety-fifth year. The deceased whose maiden name was Betts was the last member of a pioneer family. She was born upon same farm where she died knew the township when many of the and the roads wound through woods. | where bears and other roamed. After her Stephen Cronk, she eral places in the township, returred to the old few years ago. Her hushand pre deceased her many years. was a life-long member of the Friends' meeting, and was highly esteemed for her fine qualities of character. She is survived hy two dauchters.8 Miss Alma, at home; Miss Allegra, of Los An- geles, Cal.,, and one son, Robert H, who works the home farm. In terment will take place in {he Friends' Burying-Ground, on Sun day, July 5th On Tuesday, June 23rd., a quiet wedding was solemnized at the home of Rev, J. J. Coulter, Toron. to, when Gertrude Irene, daugh AS homestead a and | Normal | | don when he hawl - in} , in hey | the last of and Mrs | and | She oll 1 | Selman, | Tomlinson, | McLaren. ter of Mrs. Wesley Gibson, became the bride of Chester J. Butt, of Pickering. The bride was gown- ed in pink chiffon with beige hat and shoes and wore a corsage bou- guet of butterfly roses and lily-of- the-valley. She was attended by her sister, Miss Winnifred Gibson, who wore flowered crepe, with hat to match, The groom was sup- ported by his brother, Ralph Butt, Following the ceremony, a recep- tion was held at the home of the bride's mother, after which the bridal couple left on a boat trip, the bride travelling in a rose-and blonde suit. They will reside in Pickering. JUMPED OUT OF GAR, WOMAN WAS FATALLY HURT Accident Occurred ed Down Steep Hill July 5 A happened at Greenwood nfortunate accident | Greenwood on Wednesday evening | | when a car, driven by Thos. | dy of Claremont, be Har ame unmana- zeable Mr. Hardy was driving down Greenwood Hill when he lost ol of his car, but managed to into the vard of Mr. Bran- as alarmed to have his wife had jump out of the car untc Har to her ontr teer it scovered t d or fallen the road, Mr ry without regs The seion under- scene ining on ness coroner and all at the doct W.M.8 mes the home Victor Parkin ndance because Everyone ting al of the tor Vé very ful refreshing rain that jn the day Mi ver p js and tive YB day to celebrate I birthday. well and is a regular atten- *h and all social gath rela help het seventh ind dant at ur annual memorial service at Chapel were con nday at 2 p.m, and fi 1. Wilson, of The Salem Cemete ducted last 7 p.m vy Rey Oshawa Miss Mar nime young ladies on her birthday Juite a number of young people heir parents went ond Hill on Monday even jory over to Richn and very it the home of Mr, spent a and Mrs 0 expects to go to Japan Anzust to teach in a 1 A I s made to Mis favorite pan, wi migsionar choc resentation f a steamer rug ewman, who is a great t Greenwood EXAM RESULTS AT CLAREMONT Names of Successful Pupils Published Today July 4 The June and promotion re- Claremont Public (flaremont, examination sults at the school Entrance mended; Katie Lovet, Margs Slack, Lester Pugh candidates recom eBaton, Popking, MeCullough, Lenn Lloyd To Senior Fourth year's Isabell Gordon Promoted on work Jovee MeCullough . Evelyn Taylor, kett, Grace Tomlinson, Mabel Evans, Dorothy To Junior Fourth Pass-----Mildred l.ovst, Billie Wagg, Overland, Walter Booth To Senior Third Honour Jesgie Lewis, garet Johnson, Anna Forsythe, Harold Morgan, Betty Pretty, A, McLaren, Clifford Bassett, Alan Edna Taylor, Edward Bir Edith Lin ton, Miller, Marjorie Margaret Pass -- Frances Loyst, Betty LicKorish To Junior Third Promoted on vear's average of 83 per cent. or more--~Myrtle Ba- July : .¥ Sales ednesday Morning Special Ladies' Print Porch Dresses Light and dark colorings. | Sizes " to 50. Wed. Morning Price, Good styles, CHILDREN'S PURE WOOL Bathing Suits Sun Suits All sizes up to 14 years. Morning Price, $1.00 and Wednesday Disney * IT IS x / Not the E mate in the & @ sce can be chy + may now see wil 3 LJ - a Dewland Ltd. ly--and you ma That fact aoc of eye neglect. to oye all doub moved, Consult uw { and at! | | Greenwood as Car Careen-| very | | spending jtrice x small | 5 bright | "mart entertained | ~~ HOLDS MEETING pleasant evening | Plew. } man in honor of Miss Lillian Plew- | excellent Harold | John | Mar-| con, Gordon Overland, Dollie Bea ton, To Senior Second Herbert Forsythe, Harvey Fin- gold, Muriel Stevens, Bernice Lin- ton. To Junior Second Promoted on year's aversge of 85 per, cent, or more -- Irene lewis, Margaret "Neal, Mabel Johnson, Mary McLaren, Murray Morgan, Dorothy Davey, By Examination--Lorraine For- sythe, Recommended--- Rendell Loyst, Primer to Junior First : Margaret Cowie Irene Lynn, Dorothy McLaren, Jean Morley, Alan Pretty, Margaret Briscoe, Jack Ward. KEDRON NEWS * (Beatrice Mountjoy Correspondent) Kedron, July 4--Misses Mildred and Marie Cole are in Toronto marking Middle School FExamina- tion papers, Helen Mrs. J. Gray and Miss { Gray, "Toronto, are holidaying with Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Hepburn Miss Larine Thompson of Knick- erbocker Hospital, New York, ar rived home on Wednesday to spend her vacation with her parents Mr. Mrs. Frafik Thompson Misses Olive Luke, Mae and Lil- lian Henry, Toronto, were holiday guests of Mr, and Mrs. R. J. Luke Miss Lillic Lytle returned to her home in Toronto on Saturday arter pending the past two wecks with Mrs. John Mountjoy. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Scott, Lee, Donald and Joan, of Arnprior are their summer with Mr. and Mrs, F. W Mrs. | Mountjoy visited their cousin Mr, George and Miss Jean Stocks, Brooklin, on Friday The Kedron Women's met at the Lee Association Mrs. Frank home of I ( rossinan on Tuesday afternoon for a {their regular monthly meeting. Sev- era] items of business and a short | program of readings followed. An | mmvitation has be | Zion | our n extended to the Women's As society at lee on sociation the home of Wednesday, to visit Mrs Ross August Lec and Miss a Island, Musk lorence Whee a holiday Crossman, Mr. I. J. Crokem, Wednesday with D. Van Dyke Mr. Silas at Mr guest of her Toronto, MY and pent Mr \ Thomas, Toronto, visit . Lrossman's recent BROVGHAM WM.S. -- Interesting Gathering Held at Malcolm Home--Chin- ese Missions Discussed (Mrs, T. C', Brown, Correspon- dent) Brougham, Ont, Jitly €45--The postponed June meeting of the W M. 8. was held on July 2 at ! the Malcolm home, the president, Mrs. John Phillips, in the chair. Mesdames Grennon and Brown took part in opening devotions. After the routine business and roll call, which was answered Ly + favorite text, the program for the afternoon was in charge of Croup ""B", Mrs. Milton White, convener. Mrs. Harvey read an paper on China, pre- pared by Mrs. R. D, Miller, Mrs. White gave a paper on the work of missionaries in China since Union, A number of articles of wearing aparel, all hand embroid ered with Chinese symbols, were on exhibition and proved very in teresting. Mrs. Gannon and | Mrs, H, Malcolm sang a duet very i wT | Is visiting | McKesspek. acceptably, The very large at tendance in this very hot weather eaks well for the missionary zeal of the members and is grati- I¥ing ty the treasurer. An excel- lent tea was served while all en- joyed a social #our with their neighpors, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gray and Mr and Mrs. William Grey at- tended the wedding in Roncess- vales Ave. Baptist Church, Toron- to, Saturday of Miss Lena Gray and Mr. Symington, of Toronto. Miss Gladys Witter, Miss Sheath, Miss Wickson, Mr. Kidd and family, all of Toronto, spent July 1 at the I.. Mathews home. Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Sisson, nee Willma Ferguson, of Lind- say, and Mr, Sauguine, of Tor- onto, were with the Gannon fam- ily on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, Marcellus, of vacation Mountjoy and Miss Bea- | | Ross | Robert ! Lila Hiltz F | (Win | G. Stetfer, { coe, of Guelph, called at the Gannon home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, R. Cowan, of Osh- awa, took the Gannop family for a motor trip to Lake Simcoe on Sunday, Miss Gladys remaining for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Whirter are now away holidaying. Mrs. Haywood and family, of Dunnville are holidayisgg at the home of Mrs. Barclay. Much sympathy is felt for the Thomas Hardy family in the loss of the wife and mother, the late Mrs. Hardy, which occurred so tragically on Greenwood Hill July 1st, The event cast a gloom over the community, Miss Betty Harvey is holiday- ing with Bert and Mrs. Harvey. Traffic on the highway was heavy on Shnday and the dust annoying, but the rain fall Sun- day eve proved a boon to travel- lers and of untold benefit to crops and gardens, Some of our people paid their tribute of respect to friends gone but not forgotten, at Claremnt Union Cemetery on Sunday. Mrs. John Grigg is ill at pres ent, Mrs. Shaver and . Syhle are home again. Mrs. Shaver having completed her vear's contract teaching the school at lLavant station, The mental attendance at the service on Sunday fairly large. - The Russel Brodie family, of Toronto, spent Sunday with Mrs, PLilip and Miss Brodie, Miss J. Duncan is hciidayiny af her home here, The F. Malcolm family their people on Sunday. The W. J. Brown family wera vith their people Sunday, The Boy Scouts arrived sefely on Friday from sa'ra- was visited home Duclos | Pt., Lake Simcoe, Miss Bate had a very pleasant trip to Galt last week to attend a family reunion S.8. No. 10, Pickering, of promotion exams Jr. 1V to Sr. IV den, Merle Hopkins, William Hick Sr. HI to Jr. IV White report Roland Har- Walter Knox, Donald Reta Shea, Harold Cassie, Knox, Verna Hopkins, Grant Johnston, Victor Montague, Gor- don Gray Jr. 111 to Sr. HI Lloyd Hicks, Margaret Sanderson, Norma Har- den, Helen Farley, Merle HoltLy, Lddie Hiltz, Murray Phillips, Sr. HI to Jr, 111--John Carlisle. Sr. IT to Jr. ll--George Knox, Allan Perryman, Phylis Farley, Sanderson, Elwood Perry- Irvin Shea, Jack Carlton, Bobbie Liscombh F., to Jr. I-----Evelyn Knox, Dora Wanup, Josephine Steven- son, Allan Carlton. Helen Devitt. d¢.~Pr. to Sr. Pr Jean San- derson, Farl Hiltz, Agnes Walk man Sr. Pr | er, Beulah Hamilton, Lena Perry If man SOLINA Baker, Correspondent) June 29 Mr, and Mrs Alta,, and Mrs. Pas- Toronto, visited at Thos. Baker home, recently, Mr. and Mre. Harry. Grooms and family, of Toronto, and Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Werry, Oshawa, visited at Mr. 8S. BE, Werry's Misses Marjory and Eileen Couch, Bethesda, spent a few days with Miss Kathleen Baker. Miss<Kathleen Baker is visiting at Bethesda with her aunt, Mrs H. Couch Mrs: J. J Toronto Mr. and Mrs, M. Penfound call- ed on the former's mother at Mr. W. T. Baker's home. The fish are being nearly cooked in the creeks out this way, while everybody is sweltering in the heat Miss 1. City, home, Miss Lottie Northeote, Oshawa, with Miss Margaret Rolin Brown is visiting in York vacation at Thompson, New is spending a Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reynolds, Mr. Russell Reynolds, Mr. and Mrg. Jim Reynolds visited Miss M. Hogarth Miss Louise Baker and Master John Baker visited at Mr. J. D. Hogarth's, recently, Miss Helen Baker and Duwell visited Hampton on Sunday. The new officers for the Division are as follows: W.P,, Ruth Mec- Kessock; W.A., Wesley Werry: R.S., Evelyn Tink: A.S.R., George Millzson; treas., Mrs. B, G, Ste- vens; F.8., Bruce Tink; A.C. Roris Millson, Con., P. H. 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But if Ariel saw anything amiss her smile of surprise and wel~ come gave no sign of it and Edith's delight covered all other emoti for a space, "Oh, Gail, we didn't expect y untill suppertime! Oh, darling, you have a good time? W I've been thinkinz and thinkl but you've not had lunch!" Edith was in her arms, was 1 ing about the kitchen eagerly, mix ing iced tea, taking rolls from*the old black japanhed breadbox. Arter got up from the table to come and bestow one of her strange kisses, Gail, seated her hat damp pale forehead was still in the dre 1d that things had shifted themselves about on all sides strangely, as they did in dreams. "But tell us, tell us, tell us!" Edith pleaded. "And what ci you Gail could finzl swimming pool, the frocks and the general excitement of Tar Nient& had been pretty generally reviewed. "Ariel was with Dorothy Camp. below her wheeled 2nd flashed; en- gines roafed, the cars were gone. | After a while she turned and fol- The luck which had brought the Boston Lawrences to California just st the beginning of the gold rush seemed to have deserted the pres- ent eration. Prom a 4,000-acre ra their holdings had shrunk to s small farm and the old family home in Clippersville. Their specially. are we from Well, 1e conter tant hodv and.is, re thodist Parliament sents an independent. and : mous Church and is the final court of 'appeal with full legislati exeeutive authority, ence. Divided into seven di purposes of administration cipline and with a synod district, delegates are ele nually by the synods to the ence, . These are nunisters and men, European, native and ct ored. These representativ c ther with the and certain ex-officio members, stitute the assembly. Europe tive and colored representa side by side and have powers. Occasionally a woman member, as gible for election, but this 3 only woman member was Mrs. Ja Johnston, of Plumstead, Cape, wh 1s the representative of the Women's Auxiliary. confer conference off | knowing where she was nor what |she was doing. Always her hands forced i8e. 1niee cident Siiiaren to t ilo Bi oa Nite So There had been a rearrangement Pull. 3pw 25 jada gop Eh land she was next to Van on the to capitalize - voracious interest Prov Frio {into the foggy night; the big en- ture, Gail by working in the public | gines throbbed on the grade, t ' p ois og Cog Be long rise Gail spoke for the firs Soin) ng more and more of & prob- "Van, you saw those men and the em, and Phil was fascinated by [io oirls the ones who were mak- husband had deserted her with A three children to support. While She hesitated. She could not go her sisters' fears 7 en oo on and betray Ariel! of the house » pa) de: Dlg aha Why?" Van shouted, suspected her unjustly. Then Van "Oh, nothing!" And Gail, actually Murchison, whose family owned a Yale. He and Gail had be of prayers with trembling lips, ad- : 1 close friends before he went away |ded no more. But her soul was sick eaen othe fun?" Gall asked. Le of the Lawrences' luck turning. { She accepted his Invitation Tne. peratery. id Rocded help. Javier. ing, that it was all a part in a | Chipps. Van's uncle and aunt. but 1 in one of their Sunday nigh was received coldly by Mrs. Chipps | miles--miles from home, from Phil "Fun! Thev staved att and Edith and security and good- ROT 'said the eager INSTALMENT X Sh a ; Sven retin ® rir] 90 | going home now, she was going bac. , " * riel? 1ge Gail would ive i | son's wasn't Ariel? or else-- Dot give in. She slept, 10 Far Niente. first impulse to tell I i eon a. some club in chintzy dres- | home?" ot ri sing room the girls were notably| "From Les Gaios? Let's see--" BD a game. She would not give in, "Oh, Clipp e? Oh. here safe and sound a ' Van saw nothing. He was in about seventy miles" infinite peacefulness of i to another--cocktails, bridge, tennis | on her heart like so many seperate| 14 of seventeen, in the blue or swimming, polo, golf--at breakneck | ows. Was somebody driving Arlel | oo, 40° hag her mind A were exhausted, radio and phono- | Was she doing, away from home: |. anade at Mockerson' graph had done their worst, and it | Where did Phil and Edith think she | "pit as soon as they had ar oppor- fered the only possible amusement. | The night mare went on and an.| Gail went straight This was about nine o'clock. Into; Van was happlly conversational| ~ «ariel did you ev off into the night they went, Le-| Gall was mad with anxiety. burning nore was with Van in the front seat | With fever. His words onlv fretted ter in the rumble. But Van had | scouring the town for Ariel, tesle- been nice to Gail just in the 1ast | nhoning Dorothy, telephoning the fectionate attention she had been |Wwas impossible that twelve hours N living for, and his discountented, H A again and know the worst. Hours-- / Why don't 'I ever get my girl?" | hours! They proved to be the Jonz- ut more than oonsoled Gail not only _- | ed. but to the idea of going to Mocker-| Vaguely secondary things pene- Conference Representative son's at.all, y > that shut her in. She realized, a limp spotty cloth on it. They|alone in her comfortable cabin were all so tired they almost laid Church sleep. The clock hands now stnrd | was scared when she saw the hip- | oddly enough at the half hour after | RRC flasks and the red wine again. Van ; < man on (night. She was up on the Clipps' | Cape Tow n, those steep circuitous roads coming | ranch wakeful in the night. They |forty-minth « I a condition to drive more carefully | Then she must have fallen asleep | Africa recent! going back. Of course they would! for she was awakened by the other (of the dream « it was frightening-- roused herself, stiff and half sick. |sion and neg Funny to think of herself at home | She took a shower In the deserted | time the whole of t taire. Well, one thing was sure; if | cabin for breakfast, only anxious to ||and, Basutoland she ever married Van Murchison or | avoid notice, to secure the earliest | ja; of this sort of craziness. She looked | This attitude perhaps, the indif- at him, beside her at the table,| ferent absent mood, was what she best looking. mush the nicest of | the time. Every one was nice to her them all. He was too fine for this | now; she was suddenly one of them- ruined by too much of it. next to her, and even the haughty Mockerson's was as dull as ditch | Lenore said thoughtfully, as she ad- in the curtained alcoves, shouting ("I simnly adore that shadowy Rus- and singing, but the main roam was | sian sort of skin!" from the sea. Mateo, for it appeared that Van The floor was dirty, the walls| was to take the place of a missing heavy in the air; the place reek- | much excited about the game. It ed of stale wine. Soap filigrees de- | would all have been smooth sailing foned paper steamers and rosettes home. Van's arguments, his plead- festooned the filthy ceiling. ing. feel on deaf ears, to race one hundred and twenty |the club the minutes the game is miles for this?" 5 over," Van said persuasively, looking e { lowed the other girls downstairs, not poet father's death had shook and her lips trembled. might continue their education. girls had | drive home. The cars shot away their library and Edith in the book.de- |" ywpon they reached the top of the ries, 17-year-old Ariel was now be- tim "that terrible" Lily Cass whose % " ing so much noise? they were all in bed Ariel justified "Didn't notice 'em hood-winked them and they had chain of flour mills, returned from writhing, faving the soundiess words So the boys and I had to consols to college and il 's y - ege and Gall now had visions |She needed sympathy. reeded it des ing that it was somebody week-end at Los Gatos with the was like a horrible dream. She was adec. and her guests. ness and heip. She was not even Then--then the girl at --then ti girl waked, breakfasted, went to lunch-|~ "Van. how far her sickness and f: rude to her, watched her first polo| "No. From Clippersville." was soothing, the rolls great spirits, rushing from one thing | Seventy miles! They seemed to fall | |W" heroovne "epoe ¢ speed, By Saturday night all these seventy miles home tonight? What | oonnt ss ise was decided that Mockerson's of- | Was? tunity to speak to eac | cars they all accordingly piled and |but that only seemed part of it. of the voadster, Gail and Fred Hun- | her. Perhaps Edith and Phil ser: | ii hour, had given her. the sort of af- Lovelaces! And she not thers! TI! Ia | must pass before she could bs home "Why'd you fix it that way, Lenore? est through which she had ever liv- for their distribution for the trip trated the flaming wall of thought . Another bleak-looking table with of Whcle African room, that she was not going to their heads on the cloth and Gall three, Darkness outside, so it was had driven like a crazy over; he certainly would not pe in|had® gone to Mockerson's-- leyan. Methe get back to the ranch somehow but | girls' laughter and voices at ten, and | after more t again tomorrow night, playing soli- | cabin and crept down to the main [west Africa, Becht anyone like him she would cure him | possible escape for home. and thought that he was much the | might successfully have taken all kind of thing. Any man would be selves. Van moved his place to sit water tonight. There was parties | miringly studied Gail's pale face, empty. A heavy fog was rolling in| They were all going up to Sza were dirty. Cigarette smoke was|polo player; every one was very corated the mirrors and old-fash-|today, But she was in a fever to get "I wonder if we're all crazy, Van,| "Come on, be a sport! We'll leave "Of course we are! Here's very handsome in his loose flannels, way I work it out," Van said "Our | with his burned face Indian brown immediate ancestors used - to come | by contrast. down here on bicycles, or by trains| "I'll have you home by eight o'- and walking, or'on horseback, and | clock." they got ravenously hungry and "I've got to send some one over they came in here and found that |for some things' his aunt udded you could eat yourself out of shape | hospitably. "I can send a message for a dpllar--soup, salad, spaghetti, |to your sister." sour bread, chicken, and all good,| "I'll go with whomever you send!" {se2? And they leaped out and told | She leaped at the chance. She the world that there was no food |ecould hear nothing else--think of like Mockerson's. But we--effete| nothing else, but home. 'children of a new generation--" In the end she had her way and "You're absolutely right Van!" |was established in the roomy empty she said, half laughing and half ser- | back of the big closed car, with ous. Mason and Annie in the front seat. "Well, Van saw her off reproachfully. we never get hungry! "Why don't you stay and swim, need all this food--" anyway? It's noon; you'll cook-- They were all getting quieter, in | driving home through the valley!" the heat and smoke, and under the! "I can't, I promised Ariel" influence of the heavy rich food. In| "Oh, Ariel nothing! Come on, an occasional pause they could hear | have a change of heart and let's the seca, beating--beating on the|swim! And then we'll go up to San distant rocks. Mateo--" "You're awful cute!" Van said af-| His laughter, the grip of his big fectionately, covering her hand with | brown hand, would have been ir- his own. resistible twenty-four hours ago. "We ought to be going," Lenore| But Gail was hardly conscious of decided, "This is too awful!" them now. Absently, apologetically, They staggared up the smelly un- | she persisted, said her farewells, painted stairs to the odorous damp| The world that was all pleasure-- 'bleak dressing-room. Its window, | swimming, bridge, polo, tennis, on this raw night, was wide open. | frocks, trips--colsed behind her as 'the salty air blowing in deliciously | a pool closes over a stone. The big cold and fresh. car rumbled down into the scorch- "This won't do!" Gail said, going|{ing heat of the valley, floundered to close it. Standing beside it, both | for a few miles on dirt roads and hands raised, she looked down at|res¢hed the highway, to take its a pool of bright light at the tavern |place meekly in the long file of nel doorway below. Motor lights, house | Sunday traffic. » lowship. This was the first Metho- lights, were shining fully on the) Well, she would be home before [dist place of worship in South Afri- stumbling stupid party that had |three o'clock. She must be patient [ca Ipreceded them from the dining-|She would be rushing into the old house, She would find Phil there, haggard and wild, Edith stricken, Sam making frightful suggestions about dragging the river and notify- ing the poiice. "We Lawrences can never hold up our heads after this again," she thought. Not that it mattered, if Ariel, frightened and sobered, were home. were safe! Gail's heart was suffocating her as she descended from the back seat into the heavenly green shadiness of Gail had a sick moment of verti- | the old garden and catching up her go, of terror. What she saw, what | heavy suitcase san for the side, 'It signified, where she was and |door. where Ariel was--everything rushed|{ On the threshold of the quiet: kitchen she stopped short. Edith! together in a complete demoraliza- roll ) tion of mind and senses. was dividing her attention between | Society mn London up to 1883, bu: She remained at the window. still {a light refection of artichokes and |in that year the South African holding tightly to the sash that she |bread pudding and a book, Martin | Conference was constituted and had pushed automatically down-|Chuzzlewit. Ariel, dainty and tool. | given self-government, though cer- ward. The lights in the black ght' was sitting at the other end of the tain rights in re@ard to new legisla. tion were retained by the mother conference in England, The conference controls and al- ministers the activities of 400 'min- isters, nearly 10,000 lay preachers, and over 6,000 churches z other preaching places, with a and probationary membership of abou 200,000 persons. And according 1 the last census there are 105,217 Lu- ropean adherents and 730,022 non- European making a total of 835,239 persons, The Church is especiall strong in Bantu members as from the first the Church has been vigo- rously missionary in spirit and aim Cape Town Was recognized as the appropriate mecting place for the first Union Conference, as it was -at the Cape that the work of the Church began sgme 25 years ago, and the first constituted conference of the Church which met in 1883, was held in Cape Town when the Church was set on its course towards self-government and sclf-support. The origins' of the Church, are traced back to 1806 when some Me- thodist soldiers, who came with their regiments under General Baird, banded themselves together and built a little church somewhere at foot of Table Mountain, where they regularly met for worship and fel- I am. Because, you see, We don't It was in response to the appeals of the soldiers th the Church's au- thorities in England that the first minister was sent, in the person of Rev. John McKenny, who. landed in 1814. He could accomplish very little owing to local prejudices ani intolerance, For 18 months he did his best, conducting services an meetings in private places then, at his own request, he was transferre.! to Ceylon. With the arrival of tire Rev. Barnabas Shaw in 1816, a riew- chapter was . opened. From that time the work of the Church has continued without a break to the present day. All the work was con- trolled by the Wesleyan Missionary (room. "Come here, Duchess, that's the color hair I mean!" Lucia sald sud- denly at Gall's elbow, also looking {down, "Ash blonde--and that's a |real one, Look!" Galil looked too, Looked down at the bareheaded, loudly laughing girl a big raccoon-coated man was help- ing into a roadster. She recognized the ash-blonde hair, the curve of soft cheek, It was Ariel.