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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15th, 1921 I EAST COLBORME STORE JUST a few days left to finish your CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. We still have a good assortment of Toys, China, Glassware, and Fancy Goods to choose from. W. A. MOORE PHONE 109 Seasonable Gifts! Full Stock of PYREX, the transparent ovenware. A Gift much appreciated by everyone. Good Assortment of FANCY CHINA and ALUMINUMWARE to choose from. A new stock Raisins, Currants, Figs, Dates, Peels, 'Grapes, Oranges, Grape Nuts, Candy and Nuts. Don't Forget to make this your Headquarters For Your Christmas Shopping. Our Motto:--Quality and Satisfied Customers. F. E. MELLOW Phone 27 Colborne, Ont. NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES CONCERNED WHO HAVE NOT SETTLED THEIR 1921 ACCQUNTS Credit was extended to you because we believed in your willingness and ability to meet your obligations, and hope you will prove our expectations correct with a settlement! by note or cash on or before Dec. 15th, instant. Yours respectfully BARFETT BROS Colborne Owing to the death of the senior member of the firm of C. SOUTHON & SON, who have for many years carried on a general mercantile business at Lakeport, Ontario, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned will receive all accounts owing by the said firm for settlement, and all persons owing said firm are hereby respectfully requested to settle same this month in order to facilitate closing up the said Estate. Money may be left at the Standard Bank. CHAS:* -SOUTHON- Executor. Lakeport, Ont., Nov. 17th, 1921. Bonds ^"T^HIS bank provides special facilities for the sale and purchase of Government and other bonds. Investors are invited to consult our local manager, who will be pleased to arrange any such transactions. STANDARD BANK OF CANADA. '-. -f"'v. B6 TOTAL ASSETS OVER NINETY MILLIONS Colborne Branch: - • - C. A. Bryans, Manager. Grafton Branch: - - - N. J. Armour, Manager. Castleton Branch: - - - M. H. Mulhall, Manager. Scranton - F. P. Strong - Coal Quality and Service are two good reasons for contracting for Scranton Coal "Nature Made It Best" Now is the time to secure your Winter supply. PEA COAL, SOFT COAL, STOVE COAL. NUT COAL. CONNEL COAL, EGG COAL SHINGLES, B.C., Eed Cedar, Quebec. F. P. STRONG The Coal Mat THE UNROMANTIC MR. DALE By HAYDEN T. PRICE <©, 1920, by McCtare Newspaper Syndicate.) Marjorle Rogers had looked forward ever since February to Dale's visit at Easterthne. Dale was her brother's roommate at college. Brother karry had "raved" about the great Dale in letters and on his visits home. He was one of the "big" men of the class, Harry elaimed. And Marjorie'e married sister, Alice, had met Dale on the occasion of her visit as chaperon at the Junior Hop in February. Alice, like brother Harry, returned to praise the charm and clever, sparkling personality of Dale. Marjorie, just turning eighteen, had heard so much about Dale that her girlish Imagination had seized upem him as a subject for day-dreams. And when, in March. Harry had sent a copy of his Class Annual, the first thing Marjorie did was to look up Dale's picture among the seniors. A humorous descriptive sketch accompanied each senior's picture, and the sketch describing Dale pictured his work to recognize the existence of the fair sex. It was net that Dale was unimaginative or a woman-hater. It was almost worse than that, thought Marjorie, for a woman-hater at least recognizes the existence of women and romance, but the serious Mr. Dale was so busy that he was indifferent, chillingly indifferent, to girls, moonlight on lakes, porch swings for two on summer nights, and all other trappings and accessories of romance. Marjorie's heart sank a little as she read this disquieting description of Dale. What chances woiild she have with such a man, even though he was going to spend a week at her home as her brother's guest--a week in tbe spring of the year? That afternoon Brother Harry and Dale were to arrive for the Easter vacation. Marjorie lived in a state of suppressed excitement all day and felt that 5 o'clock would never come. At 4 the telephone rang and Marjorie answered. Her eighteen-year-old heart nearly stopped when a voice, announced as the property of Jerry Dale, conveyed the news that the boys had missed a train connection and wouldn't be home untl 7. "I wonder if he heard my heart beating," said Marjorie to herself as she hung up. This delay in the arrival of the young men hardly made her tient. As a relief from her restlessness Marjorie went to the station. I meet their tiuin. When the trai pulled in her heart was beating as only a girl's heart can beat under the urge of a star worship. What would he look like? Would he think her attractive? She was vaguely subconscious of the fact that other young men thought her attractive, but of what use was that if the great Dale didn't think so? "There's Madge I" cried her brother, as the train came to a stop. In a moment she was being bear-hugged by "Why, what's the matter with your voice, Harry?" "Nothing much--just a cold, but I can't speak above* a whisper. That's why Jerry had'to do the telephoning when we missed our train." Then came the big moment, "Madge, this is Mr. Dale--Jerry Bale." Madge on the way home re-lived that moment when her hand rested in his. She liked to recall that there was nething perfunctory in his handclasp. He had seemed to hold her hand rather tightly. But probably, she thought, she was mistaken. Probably the wish was father to the thought with her. She drove the car back from the station and between her busy thoughts and her eagerness to catch Dale's voice her driving would have caused worry to the founders of the Safety First movement. They drew up before the house and Marjorie's little heaven was naarly complete when Jerry Dale helped her from the car. She began to wonder if Mr. Dais' had chanced suddenly since his classmates had described him as being "too j serious for. romance." But her happiness was short-lived, j On account of their late arrival, and > because of his inability to be heard , over the telephone. Harry--her own j brether^-asked her to call up Ethel 1 Marbridge and tell that young lady j that he and Mr.,flbale would be over j to call on her that evening. Now it so happened #that of all the ' young ladies in the little town Ethel i Marbridge fourid'least favor in Mar- 1 jorie's eyes. But bow could a brother j rememiber a detail like that? And how could her brother know that Dale i thought Dale had held her hand at the station with something of significance In his clasp. Tears came into her eyes at the thought. That evening Dale and her brother called on Ethel Marbridge and it was 10 o'clock the next morning when Marjorie saw them again. "Madge," said Brother Harry in a husky whisper, "you'll have to act as our social secretary. My throat won't permit me to do any telephoning, so I'll have to ask you again to call up Ethel Marbridge and tell her we'll be overwa bout 2 o'clock this afternoon." Dole was sitting in the room, smoking and reading the morning paper. For a moment Marjorie tried to contain herself. She was vaguely conscious of wanting to avoid showing what a little temper she had when aroused. But restraint went flying at this second instance of brotherly blindness. Til not do anything of the sort, Harry. I'm sorry, but--well, I don't like Ethel Marbridge and I'll not telephone to her." She forgot for an ars-gej-ed instant Dale's presence in the rgom and went on: "1 won't give that girl a chance to laugh at me. I'm sure she knows how I've been looking Jler sentence went unfinished. With a quick glance at Dale and a little cry of" confusion she '-ushed from the "Well, I'll be hanged," remarked Brother Harry, stunned. "I never-saw her act like that before. I always thought she was a blushing violet. Alice," he said to his older sister, who had just entered, "what's the matter with Madge? I just asked her to phone to Ethel Marbridge, and she flatly refused. Fle%v into a rage and said something, to the accompaniment ef flashing eyes, abeut having looked forward to Jerry's visit. Can it be that-. By George, I'll bet that's it!" "Of course that's it," said the shrewd and observant Alice. "Only a blind and stupid brother would have failed to notice it. Why, she's been mooning over Mr. Dale's picture ever since the annual came." "Excuse me, please," said Jerry, rising, "I have to go up to my room for something." But Dale did not reach his room. On the way to his room he had to pass a little alcove on the second floor, and from that alcove be heard sounds of crying. He knew it was Marjoriet He. hesitated a moment and then went in. "Don't cry, please, Marjorie," said Jerry. He felt a great desire to comfort her. However, Jerry had had very little experience with girl psychology, so his resolution went to bits when at his first words of attempted comfort Marjorie turned on him, eyes blazing, and all humiliated at the remembrance of her half-uttered confes-of what Dale meant to her. leave me. I'm crying about else," said Marjorte ii) a it was' the best confession. "I don't care what you're crying about," said Jerry. "Don't cry at all. I--I don't like to see you cry." "I guess T can cry if I want to. Please let me pass. I want to telephone to Miss Marbridge." To the uninitiated Jerry this exhibition of perverse feminine psychology was a puzzler. Hadn't ber protests to Brother Hi rry meant anything? Why had she r fused to telephone in the first place? Girls were funny and variable, thought Jerry Dale. Marjorie brushed past him and started for the telephone at the other end of the hall. She had given the number when Jerry, still remonstrating, reached her side. His pleadings were of no avail. Marjorie was bent on telephoning, cost what it would to her heart. She was sure she hated Dale as much as she hated her brother and the world in general that fine April morning. What right had Dale to overhear her impulsive revelation of his significance in her thoughts! "Hello! Is this Ethel Marbridge?" asked Marjorie in her sweetest voice. "This is Marjorie Brown." She was on the point of delivering her brother's message when a strong hand was placed over her lips and another took y from her was held in Jerry's telephone. "Hello," said Jer mitter. "This is Mi Marjorie to call yo Harry can't whispt so be v n away froi the y into the trans Dale. We askec r number for us the 'phone > tell ; that her she bit her lip and l bone, She ■ life and hated rthat n lied up Miss Marbridge lly as possible delivered In her heart she felt she had caught a little Ethel laugh afternoon. Sorry."• There were a few perfunctory remarks and Jerry hung up. "Now, Marjorie, do you understand why I'm not going over to Miss Marbridge's this afternoon? Because I'd rather spend the afternoon with you. Madge, look !" He took from his pocket a little photograph of Madge. "I've carried this in my pocket for months. Harry missed it from his dresser, but he never guessed that his roommate had appropriated the picture of his pretty sister. We can tell him now. And we can tell him that I--I like you very much, Madge!" Marjorie was having a hard time making her lips stop their trembling-- happy, tearful trembling. Was it real-' ly true? It must be, for she was looking into Jerry's glistening eyes. , "Let's go into the alcove," said Mar-j lorie, jealous of these happy moments. And in the alcove they came to a very! happy understanding. When finally they came out, in response to Harry's | repealed calls for Jerry, Madge, after a mad, glad embrace, said: "And you; can tell that thoughtless, Mind, brutal: brother o' mine that I--I like you very much, Mr. Jerry Dale." On Horseback in China. When, riding, the Chinese hold the n idle in the right hand, tire opposite ;o our custom. ....... ... ' Leather Goods We have a good assortment of Ladies' Hand Bags Strap Handle Purses Manicure Rolls Change Purses Music Rolls Boston Bags Bill Folds* Collar Boxes Tobacco Pouches GOULD'S DRUG STORE STORE PHONE 129 COLBORNEHOUSE PHONE 123W ALL NEW STOCK 1922 Wall Papers 22 inches wide and Trimmed Make your' selections while assortment is complete. Sample Books now ready to choose from. Phone Orders promptly attended to. C. A. MILLS & CO. 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