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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935 THE TUDOR HOUSE By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH (Author of "S"ng for the Moon," Strange Lovers," etc). SYNOPSIS Michael Borde, 40, unmarried, end bred In a Birmingham slurr now a wealthy motor manufacture! day he visits the countryside ai his old home and meets Daphne Eden. He falls In love and proposes. Daphn father, who greets him with the words "Get out of here you cur--you ruine my home -- stole my wife -- curs Daphne's father dies and she disappears. Michael explains to her fi' Mrs. Gregory, that he was misr sented. He buys the old Tudor House owned by the Hamill-Hardy's. Michael collides with a tar driven by Diana Hamill-Hardy. Mrs. Eden notices an announcement of the engagement of Michael and Diana. Mrs Gregory dies. Daphne from her solicitors. Michael bet involved financially. Diana break; engagement. Her lips were white. "Don't look Daphne. It's all right, my dear," cried Denis Birch. "He isn't dead, I tell you he isn't dead • . don't look, my dear. Leave us look after him." Already Daphne Eden had climbed the hedgebank where harebells swayed and wild thyme grew, . gripping the branches of creamy blossoming dog-wood, parting th< brambles, she looked down. Michael Borde, with dazed expression, was scrambling to his feet. He looked at her, then crumpled up again, and with a cry of sudden pity, Daphne scrambled on th« other side. "Oh, he is hurt. Michael is hurt badly. For heaven's sake fetch doctor," she cried. For the second time within space of a few months Michael Borde found the legacy of wounds a bitter and humiliating TO BE SURE YOU GET Fast Relief An Aspirin tablet starts disintegrating as soon as it touches moisture. That means that Aspirin starts "taking hold" . . . eases even a bad headache, neuritis or rheumatic pain almost instantly. And Aspirin is safe. Doctors prescribe it. For Aspirin does not harm the heart. Be sure to look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on every Aspirin tablet. Aspirin is made in Canada and all druggists have it. Demand and Get ASPIRIN IN THE DARK VALLEY The boy, he was little more, hid his face with a groan. "Oh, if he dies, Daphne, I'll never forgive myself," he cried brokenly, and Daphne Eden, her eyes dark with suffering, turned to look at Denis Birch. Angry words of reproach trembled on her tongue, but seeing his distress, she kept these back. "Oh, why did you do it, Denis? she cried. "Can't you see what a muddle it has made of life?" A muddle! No, it was worse. It was a tragedy, or as near enough to a tragedy as one could well go, for Michael Borde lay on the very edge, the doctors feared the worst, and whilst they had operated, driven by terror, young Birch had made his He had always been in love with Daphne, calf-love it might be thought by some, but it had been enough drive him to the verge of terrible jealousy, and when Daphne had sought out his mother for help, when, after the death of her father, she wished to get away, young Birch had longed to help her. He hated Michael Borde, although he did not understand why, until that day, when delivering letters at Trenkills Farm, he had found him there with Mrs. Gregory. Then he had been obliged to wait whilst Michael wrote ter, which he enclosed in one Mrs. Gregory to Daphne, who staying with the Meadows. "It was easy enough. Daphne," he confessed. "Mother and I w< only people who knew where you were until you wrote to Mrs. Gregory. So I steamed it open, and took his letter out and kept it back." "Where is it?" she demanded. Timidly he took out a folded paper from his pocket book, and as Daphne Eden read that letter from Michael Rorde her eyes blinded with tears. It was so humble, yet so like him, too, and as memory came back to her of that green garden behind Shakespeare's house, the tryst he kept in vain, and all that a broken faith would mean to a man of his type, she felt curiously humble. Remembering how she had laid her hands in his and spoken words of and faith. Remembering, too, the simplicities of this man, in spite of his worldliness, she felt ashamed. 1 not die, but during those July nights when Daphne Eden kept watch, she felt she could never for-herself, for over and over again, i, in delirium he spoke her name, she understood that not once had she been out of his heart. At the end of the first week, obeying some strange impulse, she sent for her step-mother, who arrived flustered and wondering, but when she discovered that Michael Borde was here, under the roof of Daphi Eden, that Daphne was in love wi him, after all, and that she had sent for her to help unravel the tanglf she herself had helped to weave Mrs. Eden sat back complacent am self-assured. "I knew you cared, Daphne, jus as I was certain all along that he was in love with you," she said. "Well, my dear, nice little pli you've got here, too, and I shouldn't mind living in the country myself if I could get a snug little house like this. Lord, what a way you can see, too. What's the big grey house down there? Landed gentry and all the rest of it. My hat! You don't mean to say that belongs to Michael Borde. Why, by all accounts he's gone broke, so far as money is concerned. Haven't you read the newspapers. Daphne? They're been full of his 1 affairs lately, one way and an- j One way and another. . . . yes, , she chattered on, and some of the i things Daphne already knew, some ' of them she had pieced together through Michael's wanderings. His dreams of a great combine. . . yes. she knew all about that, how ambitions he was, poor darling. . . her eyes softened. . . "Well, well, Daphne, when you look like that," broke in Lily Eden, "don't I wish poor Michael could see you. To listen to him anybody might think he was a youngster, head over heels in love. Makes me feel quite dippy to listen to him. You don't seem to have treated him very well, Daphne. ..." That would be her punishment if he got better. She would always know that she had been the one to blame. "You're like your father, hot and hasty," went on Lily Eden. "Just see how he blamed me. Well, I don't -- that I wasn't a bit to blame, who wouldn't be? He was double my age, and he wanted me to sober down and do nothing but darn his socks and listen to his talk about hi blessed old inventions. That reminds me, Daphne," and here her eyes narrowed, "you and me ought to look into that lighting device. I know it' fitted on ail the Multiple cars, 1 know Michael Borde says he bough: it from a Swede, but as likely as nol the dirty little tyke stole it from your father. . - ■ Don't look at me that with your eyes all on firs don't mean Borde, I mean Swede." (To be Continued) 22,000 Requests For Jobs In Civil Service OTTAWA,--Last year there \ 22,000 applications for positions the civil service, according to the port of the civil commission tabled in the House of Commons recently. A total of 12,400 were examined. Of the appointments made 42 were permanent and 2,333 temporary. Forty males, of whom 23 were ex-service en, were placed in permanent posi-diis, while the 1,879 given tempor-•y employment, 609 were veterans, the report says. Russia and Rubber j PROGRESS OF SOVIET UNION IN ITS SEARCH FOR SUBSTITUTES When the Soviet Union promulgated its first five-year plan the world heard much of Russian attempts to solve the problem of rubber. Latex had always been imported. Henceforth, it was decided, the Union mutt either discover within its own borders plants that yield something like rubber or develop its own processes for the -synthetic production of the material. The Union has done both. It has plantations covering 79,000 acres on which rubber-like plants grow, and it has factories in which rubber is made out of alcohols and acetylene. , The plantations are the visible evidence of a successful search for plants of the right species. Year af- ' ter year European Russia and Siberia were combed for roots, shrubs, trees and bushes that yielded what might be a tell-tale milk. At last tau-sagiz was discovered in Central Asia. That was in 1929. Moscow lost no time in spreading the glad news throughout the world. Probably the discovery received as much publicity as Edison's effort to produce a rubber substitute from golden rod. Tau-sagiz is a shrub. Its roots contain a gum coagulated in fibers. From 15 to 30 per cent, of the dried weight of the roots cons'ists of this gum. A survey made in 1933 revealed that 15,000,000 tau-sagiz shrub3 grow wild in Soviet territory. Twenty million more were cultivated on plantations a year ago. Besides tau-sagiz there are two other gum-bearing plants. One, kok-sagiz, was found in Kazakistan in 1931; the second, crim-sagiz, in the Crimea a year later. Both are weeds much like dandelion; both flourish in the damp, salty earth of mountainous country. The production of synthetic rubber follows American lines. Like other chemists through the world, those of the Soviet Union recognized at once the importance of chlorop-rene, discovered by Father Nieuw-land of Notre Dame and developed by Dr. Can-others of the du Pont laboratories. In America the rubberlike product derived from chloro-prene is called duprene; in Russia, Probably more synthetic rubber is utilized in Russia than in any ether country. But the Soviet engineers and chemists are not pleased with of the tires made from their sovprene. The fault lies, not with material, but with the method of manufacture. BROWN LABEL - 33< V2 Ib. ORANGE PEKOE - 4©< V2 ib. WHAT DOES YOUR HANDWRITING REVEAL? GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR Graphologist FOR SCREEN EVERY DOOR AND WINDOW ONJARI O L E A C U E In certain of my articles I have endeavoured to answer certain objections that some correspondents have raised regarding Graphology. As a result I have received quite a number of letters from readers expressing their agreement with my comments. But one correspondent to#k issue with me, and all because of certain things I had told him about himself. Apparently I had told him that he thought too much about himself-that he was too self-satisfied. He said that he was not at all like this--but it took him eight large pages to tell me what he did think about himself. There is. noth- ing thi , excepting to express the conviction that if he thought he needed eight large pages to give his opinion of himself, then indeed my previous observations about hi were correct; that, indeed, he did think too much of himself! In the same mail there came a very broadminded letter from a man of forty years of age. He thanked for analysing his character, and went on to say: "Thank you for giving me the best laugh I've had in --a laugh not at you, but at myself! When I wrote to you for a character analysis I did it with my tongue in my cheek, as it were. I didn't for a moment believe that you could tell me anything like the truth. But you have done just that. You told me that I was selfish and self-centred, and was very much inclined itudy my own self-interest. Well that was a good one on me, because sufficiently broadminded to know that you have got me down as exactly as I am. I admire your cour nu the unpalatabl truth, although L had asked you to show me no mercy!" Now, it isn't everyone who can be so broadminded about his faults-- but there is a lesson in this letter, and that is the reason I have quoted it. There is no virtue in fooling ourselves! Most people have faults of one kind or another--and it is the height of wisdom to wish to learn about them, so that they may be rectified. The great trouble with most of us is that we do not really know ourselves. It takes an unbiased outsider to tell the real truth--and Graphology, because of its scientific accuracy, will show the real truth about you. Would you like to have your own character analysed from your handwriting? This well-known Graphologist can help you as he has helped so many of our readers. And he may j be able to help you to know you friends better. 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To the labored strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding March, played by a Chinese brass band, the marriage candidates paraded down the crimson-carpeted aisle, while a crowd of 1,200 persons, largely relatives looked on. The couples ascended the platform in groups of four, bowed three times before the istatue of Sun Yat-Sen, "Father of the Republic," bowed twice before each other and once to the Mayor. They then received brilliantly decorated certificates which made them man and wife. Each marriage was completed in two minutes. The government charged each couple the j equivalent of $7 for the ceremony, ! the price including the certificate and a gift to the bride. This was in startling contrast to the customary Chinese wedding which sometimo; throws the young couple into debt for life. "The secret of being miserable i to have leisure to bother abo« whether you are happy or not." -George Bernard Shaw. ... 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