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The Liberal, 27 Nov 1930, p. 7

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PHONE 188 THE FOR COAL OR The Liberal and any Toronto daily one year for $5.75. Take advantage of this attractive clubbing offer. Club- bing rates with all magazines and periodicals. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, Electrical Repairs Estimates Given Cormley R. R. 2 Agincourt 21-r-21 Phone 16-r-23 Richmond Hill Dealers in LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES 'ASHPHALT ROOFING, GYPROC. Phone 27 Richmond Hill ACCIDENTSâ€" AND YET MORE ACCIDENTS Supposing something happened to YOU. What provision have you made for weeks and perhap months of medical attention with nothing coming in? Accident Insurance ro- lieves financial and physical suffering Fire N ORAH TE W Teacher of Pianoforte LECUYER & Co. Ltd. REG PETCH SHEPPARD & GILL LUMBER C0. ' Jones Coal Co. PAINTER & DECORATOR H. FORSTER COAL COKE or WQOD Charles Graham AGENT MASSEY HARRIS Farm Implements & Machinery Telephone Maple 1249 Phone-~Willowdale 96W POYNTZ AVENUE LANSING, ONTARIO Office in the Post Office Block TEL. 118 Richmond Hill VICTORIA SQUARE Telephone Stouffville 6116 Wall Paper Snnplied if Desired W. N. Mabbefi ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR LICENSED AUCTION EER Farm Stock, Household Furniture Real Estate, Etc. Lifetime Experience Reasonable Terms Pflone 53 Thornhill, Ont. WORK GUARANTEED Estimates Free A Taxpayer of The District, Church St. Richmond H'in P. 0. Box 32 ‘ainting, Paperhanging and 1 Decorating Hudson Decorators B. R. WOLFREY, Prop. CLUBBING RATES INSURANCE -â€" Automobile -â€"- Dependable Companies Officeâ€"Radial Station A. G. SAVAGE Theory and Harmony Studio at Langstaff . OLIVER ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone 188 Telephone' 177 3 JONES COAL WOOD. for Thornhill, Ont. Ontario Life WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE !. Giles Chittenham sets out to make' Julie Farrow love him, intending to1 throw her over in revenge for the suicide of his brother Rodney, whom ‘ Julie had cast off. He succeeds, but finds that he has fallen desperately in love with her himself. Then he discovers that it was not this Julie Farrow, but her cousin of the same name, who had driven his brotherâ€" to death. But Giles is married, to an American girl named Sadie Barrow, with whom he has not lived for a long time. Sadie unexpectedly turns up in London, at a party at Giles’ moth- er’s house, but both keep silent about, their marriage. ’i Julie, disillusioned, enters into the Wild night life of London to try to drown her anguish. Lawrence Scho- field wants to marry her. Lombard, who had first introduced her to Chit- tenham, demands money from Giles With the threat that if he is not paid he Will tell Schofield that Chittenham and Julie spent the night together on the St. Bernard Pass. Later Julie con- fesses to Chittenham that she loves him. ’ At a Spiritualist seance at Giles’ mother’s house Sadie Barrow, his Wife suddenly goes blind. She calls to him and he responds, revealing the fact that she is his wife. Julie, who has sent Schbfield away because of her love for Chittenham, goes home in despair. Chittenham follows her, but she sends him away and decides she will accept ,Schofield. She goes to Schofield’s hotel. He is out, but she leaves a note for him. He took her to a desk and gave her paper and a pen. Julie wrote a few hurried lines. “I didn’t mean it, Lawrence dear. I want you to come back to me. Please ring me in the morningâ€"Julie.” It was a relief to have written that, and she half smiled as she thought how unnecessary it was to have added those last words. He would not ring her, he would come round, she was sure, ,he would come very early, per- haps even to-night if he was back in time, a‘d then in the morning they would go away and make some sort of happiness together. When Giles Chittenham got back to his mother’s house she met him in the hall. In the early morning Julie dazed off to sleep, only waking when she heard the maid let herself into the flat and move about in the kitthen lighting the fire. Presently she brought tea and a note. “It was lying on the mat when I came in Miss.” brought it himself late 13‘ Perhaps, after all, it had bee step out side which she had She broke open the seal. the en- velope felt unusually bulky, she drew out its contentsâ€"her own now. which she had written last night hi the hotel lounge, torn across and across into minute pieces. That was all. Julie tried hard not to think be- yond to-morrow, but although she was so tired, and felt ready to drop, she could not sleep. She lay awake. for hours listening to every sound. He loved herâ€"it was something be happy about in a world that 11 no real happineSS. He must by “Your wife has been asking for you all the evening. I said I would send you up as soon as you came in.” As he went upstairs he could hear Sadie’s voice, high-pitched and hysterâ€" ical, and he stopped for a moment, his hand clutching the stair rail, a terrible sense of loss and irrevocable fate gripping his heart. Julie glanced at the handwrifmq, then sat up, her pulses jerking. It was from Lawrence Schofield. She was conscious of a warm glow of pleasure. ' When she heard Chittenham’s voice, she turned her head towards the door, and stared at him with her wild, blind eyes. “So you’ve come at last, have you?” she shrilled at him. “I suppose you’ve no use for me either, now I can’t see.” She beat her hands frantically on the brass rail, and the nurse who had been standing beside her, caught and held them. Sadie burst into wild sobbing. “There’s no hope for me, I know that I shall never see again as long as I live. I shall just sit here in the darkness till I dieâ€"till I dieâ€"and no- body caresâ€"it doesn’t matter to any one in all the world what becomes of Giles‘ crossed the room and touched her shouhder. 4“Sa.die_” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 1930 FOURTEENTH INSTALLMEN’I ‘1 his : heard She checked her sobbing with a sharp breath, and raised her face with pathetic eagerness to hear what he had to say. She tore her hands frOm the nurse’s grasp, and groped in front of her till she touched Chittenham’s coat, then she clutched it feverishly and began sobbing once more. “Don’t leave me, Gilesâ€"be kind to meâ€"after all, I am your wifeâ€"3’ Chittenham looked at the nurse. “Please leave us.” When she had gone, he sat down beside his wife and put an arm round her. “Sadieâ€"you must try and be brave and listen to reason . Everything possible is being done and will be done you know that.” Sadie was sobbing again. “You don’t really care for meâ€"noâ€" body cares for me. Though I can’t see you I know by the feel of your arm that you’re just trying to be kind, while all the time you’re impatient and want to get awayâ€"” “Don’t leave me alone, Giles. You don’t know what it’s like to be left; alone in this hideous darkness. I shall go mad if you leave me. I’ve often felt impatient with blind peopleâ€"it’s bored me to have to talk to them and try and be nice to them, but I know what it’s like now, and I wish I’d been kinder. I suppose it’s my punishâ€" mentâ€"and yet why should I be punâ€" ‘ished? I’ve never done any one any iharmâ€"J’ “My dear, I want to be kind to you, but you make it so difficult for meâ€"” There was a little silence, which Sadie broke pitifully: "‘There! I’m not crying any more, am I? I’m quite quiet nowâ€"please kiss me, Giles." He kissed her affectionately enough his heart torn with pity. “You didn’t kiss my lips," Sadie saidâ€"then she laughed brokenly, “Never mind! I suppose it’s all I de- serve.” She took her hands away from him and folded them in her lap to hide their trembling. “Wellâ€"" she said aftera moment as he did not speak. “What am I go- ing to do? Or what are you going to do with me? I can’t stay here, can I?” “Well, go onâ€"and afterwards}7 What then?” “Then we must see. We must make arrangements.” Giles explained as gently as he could. “In the morning I will take you a- way.” She interrupted quickly: “Where will yon take me? To live with you 7” “Not at once. To a nursing home. I have arranged with a specialist to see youâ€"” ' She interrupted again: ‘ “It will be of no use. I know. I’m finished.” ‘ “Don’t say that, Sadie.” She shuddered from head to foot. Chittenham felt that he could bear no more. He called to the nurse and made his escape. His nerves were shaking as he went downstairs. He had never imagined anything so tragic as this last half hour. . He paced up and down the library at his wit’s end to know what to do. It was long past eleven and he had all the night to drag through. If there was indeed no hope of Sadie ever being able to see again, how could he possibly leave her? * It would be inhuman, impossible, and yet to live with her-â€" Another knock at the door. Chittenham turned impatiently. “Oh, come in, come in.” ' “A gentleman to see you, Sir. I said you Were very much engaged and could see no one, but he insisted, Sir, and says he will wait if he has to wait all night. The gentleman is Mr. Schofield, sir.” “Arrangements! for what? For me to be led about by a nurse or a dog for the rest of my life?” ‘He‘ ter- rible, hysterical sobbing began afresh. “Schofield!” The colour rushed to Chittenham’s drawn face. Schofield. the man whom Julie had said she would marry. ‘ Chittenham was across the room in a stride. “Is there anything the matterâ€"Miss Farrowâ€"" In his desperate anxiety Giles for- got that this man in all probability knew nothing of his relations with Julieâ€"and when he did not immedi- ately reply, he broke out again hoarsely. “If anything is wrongâ€"” “That all depends what you mean by ‘wrong’,” Schofield answered slowly. “Yesterday evening I had the doubt- THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO ful honour of a visit from a man nam- ed Lombard. I have met him be- fore â€"â€" usually, I believe, in your com- pany. I think I am right in assuming that he is a friend of yours?” “He was â€"â€" yes.” “Yes,” he said, still in that level, unnatural voiceâ€"“I believe there has been a little upset between youâ€"over a question of money â€"â€" or should We call it the price of a woman’s honour ?” There was a tragic silence. Chit- ‘ tenham’s hands were clenched behind l his backâ€"and his face was grim. “Perhaps you would like me to ex- plain, Mr. Chittenham,” Schofield went on, and now every sneering word was 2. studied insult, “or will it be sufficient if I just call you the cad and the blackguard which I know you to be?" “I can only conclude that you ‘are drunk,” said Giles, sharply, “and that being so, the kindest thing I cafi do is to ring and have you shown out of the house.” He took a step towards the bell, but Schofield was too quick for him â€"- “That won’t do,” he said thickly. “I’ve seen that trick tried before. I’m not drunk and you damn well know I’m not. ‘ You’re a younger man than I am, Chittenham, but I spoilt Lom- bard’s beauty for him last nightâ€"he won’t show his face amongst decent people again for some time to come, and I’ll spoil yours if Iâ€"-” “Don’t be a damned fool,” he said roughly, “you’re no match for me, and you know you’re not. If you’ve got anything to say, say it and be doné. As far as Lombard goes, if you have given him a thrashing I’m in your debt, I owe him one myselfâ€"” Chittenham caught his upraised a find held it in a grip of steel. He released Schofield’s arm, at the same time giving him a little push away from him, and for a moment the two men glared at one another silent- ly, then Schofield broke down. He groped towards a chair‘and fell into it, hiding his face against his clenched hands. Giles watched him for a mo- ment without speaking, then he feccnâ€" ed whisky and soda from a side table “Help yourself," he said. “If you'w; got anything against mm let’s 31‘»: i out sensibly, instead of flying: at 0"! another’s throats like wild 5033b. ‘ know what Lombard has told youâ€"n} tried his blackmailing games on me and when he found it was no use he threatened to go to you. Good God, Schofield, what sort of a fool are you to believe a lying hound like that?” Schofield raised his haggard face. “What reason have I to disbelieve i He never finished his sentenceâ€"for ‘(Chittenham’s hands were at his throat,’ ilshaking him like a rat, almost chox- Ling himâ€"â€" Schofield wise to his feet and began ,pacing up and down. “Lombard was so sureâ€"he had got every detail of the storyâ€"that you and Julie spent the night together at the St. Bernard Hostelâ€"" “But I believe it!” he shouted. “l’ve always known that Julie Was‘unhappy. She has hinted at trouble again and again. The reckless way she talksâ€" all that pretended gaiety. It’s never ireally deceived me, though for her sake I’ve let‘ her think it hasâ€"Lorn- bard had the whole story pat. He even spoke of your brother’s relations with Julie’s cousinâ€"and of his suicide. He said that you mistook Julie for ,her cousinâ€"he said that you intended punishing her for the way she treated your brotherâ€"he said that when you came back from St. Bernard you boas- ted to him of the easy conquest you had madeâ€"" it?” he asked sullenly. Giles shrugged his shoulders. “Isn’t your knowledge of Miss Farâ€" row the best of all reasons?” “So we did. It was impossible to get home. If all such unforeseen sit- uations are given the same v11e inter- pretation as you have given to thisâ€"" ‘ Schofield’sr faceâ€"flamed suddenly crimson. “By Godâ€" you dare say tnat to me â€"you talk of Lombard! how much better are you? Believing the first foul lies that come to you about 3 WO- man you’re supposed to care for! YYou’re not worth a thrashingâ€"get out that’s all I’ve got to say to youâ€"" Still keeping one hand on Schofield, Clrittenham dragged him to the door and flung it openâ€"shouting to one of the servants: “James, show this gentleman out, and if he refuses to go send for the police.” He released Schofield so violently that he almost fell. He waited a mo- men’sâ€"then went back into the library, shutting the door behind him. I He was shaking from head to foot ‘With uncontrollable passion, and 1115 V In a revulsion of feeling he Wished passionately that he had made true the almost unspeakable accusation which Schofield had brought against him. Julie would have been his then for everâ€"body and soul, and nothing could ever have altered it. on all s tempest arms. And again Chittenham lost himself in the thought of that night on St. Bernardâ€"when they had been shut in on all sides by storm and snow and tempest and he had held Julie in hls face and head were burning That any man should dare to accuse him of such a thingâ€"and to Julie of all peopchâ€"the woman he adored! . . . . (Continued Next Week) Phone ll6-M THAT BETTER PENNSYLVANIA HARD COAL STONE, GRAVEL SAND AND PEA GRA VEL Supplied on Short Notice. WIRE FENCING and CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION U vmcr mouels Horn 3111 I Inviting ‘ you to hear "Amos 'n' Andy in Person" GARFIELD YEREX Make a point of coming to this store tonightâ€"hear the "taxi-cab” boys as you’ve never heard them beforeâ€"“in person”! . . . That’s the thrill of this new Bosch Radioâ€"it brings you into the very presence of the artists . . . Come and enjoy your favorite featureâ€"- tonight or any other nightâ€"without obligation. 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