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the georgetown herald wednesday evening x 11th 1941 hawk in the wind by helen topping miller lucyi get willis pratt on the line tell him to get over here right away ancbihen go out in the mill and find tornpruitt tell him i want him quick willis pratt was not in his office he was so lucy reported after much telephoning over at the coun tyseat trying a case concerning a cow hit by a switch engine virgie and tom and young bill gallup sat for an hour in the office looking at each other tom uneasily and unhappily virgie with an accus ing gnmness about the set of her mouth young bill too interested to depart if they get into that timber be ore you can get an injunction tom fniitt and make it stick virgie said savagely its your own fault for being so dumb tom said nothing he rose and jammed on his old hat you come back here virgie shrilled at him we re going to wait here for willis pratt lucy got a call through but tom did not turn back nor answer he went across the yard and out the gate along a hard path he railroad tracks the p turned sharply up a gullied hill through a gap in an old fence and tom turned too heading for the lit tie unpainted house on a knob be hind the town where for forty years he had lived he unlocked the heavy padlock and opened the door into a wide dark room that smelled of ashes and unaired clothing and ancient grease over the fireplace hung two long rifles polished and shining in a place where nothing else was clean tom took them both down opened a tir safe and brought out oil and rags snd a slim ramrod he was a mountain man chapter vi three days passed and tom did not come back virgie grew anxious and irrita ble snapping at every one exas perated at tcjaf the contrary old mule i she stor as she poked at the fire whats he pouting about anyway after i go to a lot of trouble to save his timber land far him he goes off in a sulk afraid hell have to go to court i suppose lucy fields sitting meekl at her desk chirped an agreement w you want me to go to toms house mrs morgan and see what has hap pened to him no i dont its a mile and all uphill youu go traipsing around in that thin coat and get pneumo nia and then where win i be i fcavent got enough trouble ship ments late and stove full of ashes td have jerry clean those out they were so busy in the yard i hated to stop them let jerry alone and dont pay any attention to me either im tired im going to have a man around here to take some of this work off my shoulders ive hired that young wills up at my house to start in monday he ought to be well enough by that time you can tell the boys hes going to work here well what are you looking like that tor lucys face had changed oddly her sensitive mouth bad straight ened and stiffened a little her eyes looked frightened first and then withdrew and were guarded and un happy whats on your mind virgie persisted is there any reason why i shouldnt hire a man to get tim ber in and pulp out and go wad- ng around in wet woods instead of doing it myself none at all mrs morgan lu cys voice was small and prim i was just thinking i was wondering if the boys in the mill were going to like having a stranger put over them an outsider vlrgies broad amiable face burned with crimson patches and her eyes were as metallic as gun sights listen here she said grimly if you hear any remarks around this property about whos hired or who isnt you tell those hillbillies im running this mill will you yes mrs morgan and for gosh sakes virgie fair- 7 snorted dont be so darned hum- 1 wont mrs morgan get perry bennett on the tele phone tell him i want an answer about that spruce acreage today he told tom he had decided not to seo he always decides not to sell s then he boggles around and devils my life out of me to get the price up but he always sells tell him if he wants to talk to me to come here lucy fields weni home that night in an uneasy state of mind she had worked for and loved virgie morgan loyally for several years she would have defended vfrgie pas sionately against any criticism but now she had a feeling that vlrgies generous impulses had betrayed her this young wills might be a very flat fellow but lucy had a feeling that he would not be a suc cess in the morgan mill stanley daniels was coming to call she would talk to him about it but she was quite certain that he was hot going to be pleased either but at night when she went home she forgot branford wills in her ex citement over daniels visit the house was in confusion as always lucy hurried from room to room opening the outer doors to get the smell of coffee and frying out of the house ignoring her mothers peevish compjaints whisking and brushing hidingaway the bottle of liniment the lurid calendars and the handleless souvenir teacup filled with matches that decorated the mantel shelf she washed up the dust of spilled ashes and brought out the two pre cious embroidered pillows she had worked in lonely evenings anybodyd think some king was coming protested mrs fields peevishly from the dishpan you re the pne that s always complaining about coal costing so much and now youre trying to heat up a whole county just because youve got a beau coming he isnt my beau cant i have one friend without a lot of excite ment and hysteria over it other girls have company and go out places they don t tear the house down to please their company ill betl lucy closed the doors with a pa tient sigh there was little use the sigh said trying to be anybody stanley danlets would look at all her pathetic artifices the rug pulled a little crooked to cover a hrjhi mthe old-earpetf-the-pieture- hung too high to hide the stain on the wallpaper he would be amused but at least he was com ing he had stopped at the office to tell her so and she had to hurry to press her good dress and be ready the dress was old but the soft shade of blue helped the paleness of lucy s coloring and the lace bow she contrived at the throat had an air her hair fluffed softly over her ears and the dab of rouge she put on made her eyes brighter well remarked mrs f lelds hanging up her apron having a fel ler sets you up you look real nice i m going to fix cocoa ready to heat mother and put the cuds on the tray and mother please don t nibble at these little cakes i couldn t get many i wouldn t touch one of em with the broom handle mrs fields was offended and one thing i m bound to say if you aim to get married leave me alone here in my own house i can live on cornpone and greens i can chop my own stove wood if it comes down to that but i cant stand being fussed at and there cant nobody fix me over im too old she sniffed audibly and marched into the bedroom her neck stiff lucy flew to the door mother if you dare suggest such a thing i havent the slightest idea of marry ing anybody she choked on her weak anger let despair sink heavily into the bottom of her heart ii was no use no use at all i well thats him aknocking stated her mother with acerbity you better let him in stanley daniels had a new over coat and a jaunty new gray felt hat lucy let him in with a flutter wishing that her throat would not get so pathetically red she reached for the hat but daniels did not sur render it i was sent to bring you he said theyre having some kind of a meeting going to get up a show marian morgan told me to bring you oh the little theatre i heard about it that will be fun wait till i put on my coat lucy hurried away thankfully all the way to the lodge hall where the meeting was to be held she walked on air oh this wa living this was being young i going out meeting young people having fun they passed the mill and the sul phurous reek settled like a cloud over them daniels said have i smelled something like that before is it roses do you think lucy giggled with delight i nev er notice it any more i went away to business college for a while and when i came back it seemed dread ful but since i work in it i think if the mill shut down id miss it probably i wouldnt be able to breathe at all like david morgan youve heard that story i suppose lucy had heard the story of the night the pipe froze and david mor gan leaped up and was halfway to town in three minutes pulling on his clothes as he ran it was a clas sic in the town but she said naive ly oh no what happened too bad morgan died daniels remarked when he had related the old tale that mill needs a man not that mrs morgan isn t a grand woman of course but any busi ness needs a man lucygasped a little because here was the opening she needed the chance to talk ovev what was both ering her mind now she could say oh ru tieti wlt be a man mr branford wills bui somehow she could not nay it she sensed thai stanley daniels was not going to like the news when he heard u that he would stiffen and grow thoughtful and remote that this lovely evening would be spoiled so she kept silent though the silence troubled her keeping anything from daniels was like cheating to her naively honest mind and there was deep in her mind a traitorous small tingle of excitement thai she would not have admitted even to herself having a young man in the mill- some one new and enthusiastic and impatient was kolng to be some thing of a thrill lucy glowed a hi tie with this idea as she v went up the cold clacking stairs to the lodge room and there the drabness of reality chilled her again as marian morgan brisk and assured satck hello lucy m the same old tone of knd indifference instantly lucy was just lucy fields again lucy fields who lived i as we see it i i by j a strang i instantly lucy was just luc fields again in the shabby houte at the end of a shabby street who had a dreary time of it supporting her mother marian said sit down you know all these people lucy and lucy murmured oh yes and settled herself for an evening of pure torment sally gallup wife of young bill who ran the power plant over the mountain was there brisk and so phisticated and v earing the little air of personal triumph that young married women flaunt for the ex press torture of spinsters silly an nounced that under no cirt um stances would she arree to be a leading lady it spoils the illusion for the audi ence knowing that the heroine is really the wife of a perfectly solid husband i cant enjoy some of my favorite movie stars any more knowing they re probably worrying about juniors tonsils while theyre making love in the play youll have to be the heroine marian could you play the male lead mr daniels if we find the right play ive never tried acting dan tela hesitated but obviously lucy saw he was pleased youve such a grand voice and you re tall sally gallup continued to effervesce youd make a won derful actor marian morgan said nothing she wants bry hutton for the lead lucy was thinking and the others will be against it for fear bry will be drunk at the last minute and spoil the show we have to organize first mar mn announced and appoint com mlttees well have to write and and out about plays we cant pav any big royalty if we charge even so much as fifty cents people will grumble and go to the movies in stead lucy you can write and find out about the plays youre writing letters every day ill speak to mother about it oh yes lucy hated her own faint acquiescence 1 can do that they all left the hall in a group and lucy had a moment of panic for fear stanley daniels might leave her to walk home with some of the others but he kept his hand on her elbow and her spirits rose the three blocks home were too pitifully short at the door she grew nervous again hated her stammering uncer tainty wont you come in she fol tered i m hungry arent you this air is so chilly stanley daniels hesitated briefly his ego had been given a satisfy ing lift at the meeting by sally gal lup s fulsomeness even marian morgan s lack of enthusiasm had failed to dampen him but eager lit tie lucy fed some gnawing bit of uncertainty in his nature he still felt the need of approval and lucy was naively adoring so he was gracious about letting her urge him into the house and kind in ignoring her confusion when they entered mrs fields shoes and woolen stockings were sitting in front of the stove and daniels busied himself tactfully folding his overcoat while lucy whisked them away he did not see lucy snatch a glass con lafning an upper set of teeth from the mantel or turn a cushion swift ly because of the inevitable cathairs rhnefng to it the town of st marys with a popu lation of over 3800 inaugurated an ear ner closing arrangement tor saturday nigfato some years ago and it seems to work out satisfactorily to ail concer ned tfcey close at 11 oclock safr- urdaiyntgtitb and at 1046 toe town p warns ttte storekeeper to get their display goods in off the side walk at ll ootocfc the doors are bol ted and customers inside are let out as their business ia concluded and no otihers are allowed to enter the stores tjie arrangement seems to be popular both wmfe the farmers of the district and with the business men as well m fact none of them would ever think of going back to the old late arrangement we axe given to understand even governments profit or learn by experience compare the present viotnry loan campaign with fchtft of the victory loan campaign of ttie last war at that time we paid for our bands and in the course of a week or so we received interim certificates then in about six months time along came the definite bonds in this cam paign we pay over our cash and get the bond handed back to us over the counter no unlike purchasing a choco late bar when we first started to purchase war savings certificates for this war we had to wait for a couple of weeks before we got our certificates but lately they have been sending them out more promptly the present sales of bonds apparently has been well arranged beforehand and should easily je overfubscribed as no doubt it will be the victory loan campaign in the last war was up against ignorance al- lhouarh perhaps that isn t the proper word thee either wnat we are at- tompcng to put across that there v en a great many people at that time that had funds to invest in bonds but who knew nothing about them at all they had never invested in a bond and had to be shown we can recall ex plaining that a bond is really a mort gage that the buyer is getting in re turn lofhis cash in tnl6oaeamott gage on the dominion of canada on the other hand stocks which are at times confused wilh bonds are really a partnership arrangement of course today everybody is familiar with bonds uid 1 shouldn t be difficult to sell them to anybody that has the where- withal another memorable event of the last war wa tne patnotlc fund in fac it is at times difficult to realise lhat so mam folk recall verv little of the last vnr tune has a habit of mov ing on the arrangements for the col lection of the patriotic fund were well handled and we ail alwavs re member he first evening that vc star ted out to collect in our part of town by th way we were hvliy m a lum bering town of perhaps 700 population in nor he n ontario at lhtt time and if ouve been up up that waj ou know what those towns are like there w eren t more than perhaps a dozen substantial buildings in the whole town the others being frame covered with tar paper and all in need of paint there were no wealthy people in that town lumber jacks and mill wor kers sectim hands and a few granite cutters the manager of the locai bank was our partner and our instruc tions were to give everjbody the op portunity of giving no matter what the amount miajitbe the first nignt we gathered up over 1200 and by that we mean just the two of us gathered that much money in one evening we win illustrate our experience tn one humble shack the husband was wor king nights that week and the lady was alone with her kiddie she had not a chair even to offer us we told her our errand yes they were glad to give they were sending money to the husbands mother tn the old land and also helping to look after a bro thers family but they were glad to give to the patriotic fund as the bank manager and i bid that lady good night we lifted our hats it made us ashamed of our own efforts to give till it hurt as we thought we had been do ing june moon of thirteen moons that each year the junemoon is the moon thats mine because it shines when summers near and sheds its nightborn lights so and in the evenings eastern skies this silver orb begins to rise and stops the buckout of the night jby flooding all the landscape bright with goldensilvery rich rare rays that turn the nights to twilight days it floods where not long go was snow down m the vale where trilliums grow where blossoms burst on vine and tree an earnest that soon fruit wih be when lilacs lift their coneshaped heads of purple white and deeplsh reds where luyoithevalley bells wih tinkle when the night breeze swells where neaoi the willows by the stream we sit and talk of lifes young dream thats why i like the junemoon most it seems a hightborn charming host that welcomes us with smiles so bright to natures rarities of night ralph gordon 628 crawford st toronto j cooke floor contractor rums lmnq usukfadno sa finishing good wotmaaiblp reasonable prises t new st bublin g ton men off 304090 rep tu vigok ma is to band psp ssrm 4 r i t a apeeuttrosactorr far w4 try this aid to tadar hraatoati have us ft your child ey e now t for glasses of quality at ty t walker ro k7esxghx specuu9t who win be at his offles vnr the ben telephone oa- mala street georgetown the lillimil wednesday of each month r you may consolt o t walksr at bis office tn brampton phone g 87 brampton 599 halton garage operators meeting history was again written into the ttfe or halton branch of the ontario oarage operators areodatlon at teir regular meeting held in the farmers hall milton on june 6th with the largest number ever to attend a regu lar meeting mr j l mckindley the branch president was in the ohalr a short business period followed the presidents opening remarks the treasurer re ported the branch in good financial standing then followed the most in spiring address yet given to the members of halton branch by mr fred j hawes director of apprentice ship department of labour queens park toronto who outlined in a very thorough manner the work of his de partment and its value to the student mechanic who aspires to be master of his trade and the advantages or mec hanics certificates to employers as a means of checking tie qualifications of men to be hired mr e j wadham editor of oarage operator also gave a very interesting address on associ ation matters with particular reference to head office operations which gave ahe members much rood for dough another interesting- feature of the evening was the initiation of new member wtn bailey provincial ttioncirpres conducted 1ttta part of the program and gave a short in teresting and thougtrtfol address with mrtaoular reference to duties of each member to the assoolation jack pmnlngfion president of went- worth county branch was a vtettor and spoke briefly a vote of thanks was given to the speakers in appreciation of their ef forts on behalf of um branch a soctal naif hour was spent when a number of member engaged in a pie eating contest tbta brought an other profitable evening to a dose anniversary services limehouse presbyterian church sunday june 1 5th mr douglas seaton of toronto will be que speaker at the morn service rev a neil miller of brampton will preach in the evening special music by the choir assisted by rockwood male quartette and guest soloist services at i i 00 a m and 7 00 p m standard time garden party monday june 16th on the lawn of mr a c patterson silvercreek service station on no 7 highway between georgetown and acton tom hamilton scottish character comedian and radio artist rex slocum vmia at wit sod t and his nelkemcghie celebrated osnadlati vioamot violet murray old and hnr jack ayre pianist and story teller capt r c creelman bd oiaplain of toronto irish regiment will deliver a short address refreshment booth on the grounds pragrsmme onmnwnnesst bjoo psn standsnl urns admission adults 25c children 15c now is the time to have your electric stove checked over before the warm months wiring appliances water systems richard forster electrical contractor phone 406 georgetown john street 12 noon ar e pjn furniture removals local or distant local and distant hauling stake or dump trucks we carry full insurance and government license daily tr se es 20 year connecting with most points in the province phone 171 geor ry