___}—- --- All" “°""“¢ on “mu-nu 11"" “Km” In ammo 1",? ,'“',.‘.'.l?l ‘midi: ninth W“ _,__. Uy ROBIN I100!) FLOUR Jyou “in not regret it. srmvmc. sir/rs I00 ‘gill... Dnlg Co., Kensington. ____. .-~~ 111 take in trade one Jfiigtcil: L-l153-12-l8-2i. . UYI-Iit—Mr. Justin Rot- ‘F: France, 1s purchl-illfi o m pelts at the offioe of B ram‘ Rogers, Summerside. ' —-l007-i2-3-1mo. JJRIPTIONS 'll'0 ‘HIE 'SRU$TTETOWN GUARDIAN be handed to their representi- elliss Olga Green, Albany- ‘ YOUR GIFTS Rb ABLELYJIIalInMY. Toiletries: ‘n in Paris"; “BOIJYJOI-g"; "3 m‘ l? Chocolates: Hunters, 1'f_“¢,,,,.,,.g. L-l4l9-l2-l7-2i. . ., ~ ‘ED-Large quantities of “T2311 oats, also table stock Us Highest market FY1665 i“ fife; s“. 11g before selling else- ‘ " 111 ,Kcn5inBWn- m‘ J‘ B‘ M mai-lllu-lz-ll-lol. . E UANTITIES OF Qgfltgllilvg 1N — The 1111' l. ‘ M“, buyers report that a aqunlltity of furs l" 601111118 w sunlmcrside this lief“ and m lire kept. busy B11 day 8X- mg and valuing furs. On the a‘; the business looks 300d End '55 are receiving n fair P11“ l. their skins-B. J-rmlznil. 0F MRS. GASPE umRDS — The funeral of Mrs. p. Richard was held in St. '5 Church 0n Tuesday morn- . Rev. Fr. Murray officiated at. .. Requiem Mass and Rt. Rev. . MacLcllan at the BIBVQ- The lbeams were Messrs. Robert .195, Frank DesRoches, Arthur l. n, Henry DesRoches, Samuel illl ons, aylwle GanMm-s- -PA'I'IIIN’I‘S 1N THE PRINCE HOSPITAL - Several patients have entered the ital this week for treatment .. are Mrs. Theresa. Henderson, u gig; M158 $165310!‘ Duffy. erald; Miss Edna Perry. slim" aide; Miss Eunice Martin, St. pllael; Miss Berna Berna-rifl- rioan; Miss Rita Gallant, Ur- rille; Miss Mildred Murphy. in; Mr. ‘Charles I-Iuestis, Ken- ou-S. ..lIEl.P THE COMMUNITY .'D - The committees who are ling into the number of needy l. ‘lies this Christmas report ~ there is just as many l! n“ e families in want. Especially children need warm clothing. our help‘is needed if every child to have some sort of Christmas I i this year. Donations of ncy, clothing or food will be lrllllly received. Place your lions in the Town Hall. Cash -l- lions should be handed to the nco Committee. Each family ‘be supplied with a hamper on "stmas Eve, filled with flood, <~ llnciclothing. Do not forget iltend he charity show on l .22nd in aid of the Fund-S. ANNUAL MEETING - The lll meeting of the Whom of Mrs. Robert H088. wllfllJi, Ziliss Lucy Hogg president. Pulling. Officers were elected - follows: President, Miss Lillian l‘: vlcc president. Mrs. Frank Yllllll‘; srlrctnrj’, Miss Jclln Cur- Hrcusnrcr, Miss Gladys Clarke; ‘Elltintc hclpcrs secretary. Miss ‘N16511:. A program of Christ- l- nnlslc and songs were very ‘lll vlljllyctl. The secretary re- ." llllil .1 wcll filled box of diiiiillls filings had been sent " thc. l-n-clc to thc Brunswick a: Umu-d Church Mission at '~ X-s. ~§illi' DRESSED POULTRY TO ‘HF-W - Over two tons of ‘M! poultry has gone forward l- linllfnx front Prince County illc (‘hristlnns trade. Mr. Ros- ‘ ilil of Halifax, who was in Sum- er-‘lillf on Tiu-sday purchasing t lilllpmrnt. says that the mar- ni‘ \'l"-'.v poor this year owing ‘ F“ fart that hardly any poul- . l5 bring shipped to England 3W1". The reason for this p; hit‘ that English people are ll: n W1 for raising poultry in ab‘ grill‘ numbers. The shipment h“ t FI- ivns madc up of high kkoélikltyfi. geese, ducks, and l“ 1 11nd were shipped from "slim and Summerside.—S. o P-Lfinowncss 8S5: FUNERAL nmocrons Aim EMBALMERS Prince County llolpitll mhnlancs in Charge illmmcnide, ucdsqu ml Remington P111110 88-1. ___.__________ Investment Wwwvm "ITEM: sscunrrres co. id. McArthur Building. Phone - Securities bought, sold quoted. WESTE u nursed for Inn ilsinsle phase electric o. at Bruce's. Flora l" wmlislilssion Circle was held at? ‘it TH and PRICE LOCALS —0NE SLIGHTLY USED 1% HP. motor, on sols 11-1153-12-18-21. —ll'l'l.‘ UP YOUR RADIO and get the latest news. Batteries will be scarce and hard to get at Christmas time. Fresh stock at Bruce's. —!l" YOU WANT o Marconi Radio for Christmas, order at once, at Bruce's. L-il53-1Q-1B-2l. “FOR SALE at a bargain, Beatty Electric Washer, new. Lulu M. ‘Ibombs, Kensington. Llm-lfi-ID-ii —DR. HENRY MOYSE. Bedeque has resumed hi; regular practice. Office hours 8 to 5, 730 to 9 p. m. Sunday by appointment. @175’! COURT-Judge In- non held a session of the. Coun- ty Court at Clifton on Tuesday. The December term of the County Court opens at Summerside on Friday-S. -—JUNIORS DONATION -Mem- bers of the Junior Red Cross of Howlan school raised $25.00 for the Red Cross Fund by means of a. concert. This is a very praise- vlorthy effort and the children should be highly commendech-S. -—-LEFT FOR ST. PETERSBURG y-Mlss Allie Muirhead and Miss Ifodgson who have been guests at the Mawley House for some months left this week for St. Petersburg, Florida. They will be registered at the Central Hotel-S. -FORMER ISLANDER PASSES --M.r.s. John Boates of Summer- side has received the sad news of the death of her ssiter. Mrs. Clif- ford Duffler, on Saturday last at a hospital in Watertown, Mass. Mrs. Duffler was only 40 years of age but had been ill for some time. Mrs. Duffler was formerly Raphel Ramsay of Tyne Valley and will be very kindly remembered in her native province. She leaves to mourn her husband and one daughter, Doris, sLxteen years of age; and the following brothers and sisters, John Itanray, Mount Pleas- ant; Robert Ramsay, Tyne Valley; William Ramsay, Northam: John Boates, Summerside; Mrs. Ephraim Phillips, Tyne Valley; Mrs. Nelson Ramsay, Freeland, Dot 11; Mrs. Eddie MacArthur, WSWIIDWQ Mass, and Mrs. Eliza Sinclair of Hamilton, P. E. I., who has been with herusiter during her last illness. Much sympathy is extended to the bereaved relatives. -—S. Personals —Mr. Fred Cormier of Mount Carmel is s. patient in the Prince County Hospital-S. ._-Mr. Mark MacCollar has ent- ered the Prince County Hospital for treatment-S. _M15g Irma Davson of Summer- side is spending the Christmas holidays in Boston-S. DMrs. Iowell Hancock and Miss Helen Rankin leave this morning to spend’ their ‘Christmas vocation in New York-S. ._Mr. T. M. Linkletter, M.L.A.. and Mr. Patrick Martin of Sum- merside. are attending the Mari- time Convention of Fishermen at 'I‘ruro.-B. --Mr. Benjamin Tanton has ar- rived home from MncGill Univer- sity to spend the Christmas holi- days with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. T. TantofL-S. —Mr. Fremont Archer of Char- lottetown is in Summer-side ‘this week on business.-S. ' __ —Mr. J. F. Douglas of London, England is in Sumlnerside‘ in con- nection with his work with the P. H. I. Fur Pool who he rep- rrsents in London-S. --Mr. Anderson of P01‘?- E181" who is on the staff of the P. E. Hand Fur Pool is registered all the Mawley House-S. -Mr. J. MaoCurdy Bell °l 6"‘ felon who was underavlns ‘WM’ ment in the Prince County Hos- inal is convalescin ‘at the MW“ ley House, Summ sol-rs- GOVERNMENT §9°“_“&PELE£"L_P“" °’ other towns in Shensi and ed150- ent Kansu Province were facing serious dangers lMiBy 85 m“ "m3 in northwestern Chino 81W u’ creasingly ominous. These religious workers of many nationalities. totalling several score. were out off from the outside world and unable to depart from their posts in the areas which have been lion of Marshal Chang Hsueh- ugn; against General Chinng Kill- Shek andthe Nanking regime." v J. L. DAVISON IUNIRAL DIBICTOI AND IMBALMIII KENSINGTON nay and Night Calla Prolnptly Attended. PIIONI ‘I-l 1.4514. ‘ thrown into turmoil by the rebel- Splendid Cures Mr. w. m. Enman. who has 1w returned from Halifax, and will ‘be in Charlottetown during the holi- my season, states that many splen- did oures are being "effected in var- 'ious parts of Nova Bcotia by means of the I'm-odor. Iibr example: Mrs. lilhjor Booms. 14 0011p Ave., Am- hent, lays: "rile Ibrador has sc- complislmed women in our home. Among other things it has given complete relief to my daughter Dorothy, who suffered much from bronchitis. We wish you every suc- osls in your splendid work." Excellent cures. have been ob- tained in cases of rheumatism. ec- zema, piles, goitre, asthma, etc. Ask for literature including 1on8 l list of cured people. ‘ Those who want a Farador, or who want their Farador looked af- ter. shmfld apply soon. I. EDGAR INMAN, 266 Sydney Street, Charlottetown, P.E.1'». "w OTTAWA (Continued from page 9) commission be sct up t0 mvesu‘ gate their working and living con- ditions. Many of the recommendations have been made annually for years but one that has always flplieared in memorandums of the Enflllifii- speaking unions, seeklns repel! i)" section 98 of the Criminal Code. was notably absent on this occa- sion. That end was attained by legislation adOPl/Bd at m” 155" 565' sion of parliament. Demand of the Catholic Work- ers’ Confederation that Commun- 1st; should be banned from the Dominion and that Canada. l! B should have Svvlfit Bliss“ “mm” semlnatfon in other countries 0f paganda was a feature of the Dre-i" entations. » Mr. Mackenzie King did not re- all three delegations that in vielié of the troubled state of the wor "this 1s no time to set nation fisainst nation." It was a time for great care in public utterances 5° mat no mlsunderstandlnil "mud arise. Mr. Lapointe. sneakins i" the specifically with the demand I01‘ action against the Soviet. "Lot. me tell you that we hate Communism," the Minister said. "There is not one member of theta Canadian Government who is not strongly opposed to this system. 111st only from a doctrinal viewpo but also for common-sense reas- ons. I do not want any 5011M to remain as regards our stand and 1 repeat 1,119.1», we, the Ministers, and everyone of us are strongly OPPOS- ed to Communism. We must fol- low the methods which. in W!‘ 0P‘ lnign, we believe best-suited t0 iirevcnt propaganda of this mm" ment in Canada. "A few weeks ago. I read Sir Charles Gordon's (President of the Bani: of Montreal) report, statinl; the advancement which has taken i INTERESTING lnnilssullin n council ‘me Summelside Town Council met last night in an adjourned ses- sibn. Mayor Robin on presiding. A feature of the meeting was an ad- dress by Councillor .MacKay on the founding of the tourist busi- ness by the late James L. Holman in 1872 by opening the Island Park Hotel on Holmans Island in Bede- que Bay at o cost of $80,000 which included hotel, ferry and wharves. A unique feature embodied in the address was that in the summer of 1877 the Canadian Pre-"s Assoc- iation held their annual meeting in the hotel. The motto over the dining room tables on this occas- _ion was "The pen is mightier than the sword." Mr. Holman died on Oct. 9th, 1877. Mr. MacKay pre- sented the Council Willi a framed picture of the hotel, called the or- iginal tourist card, and one of Mr. Holman. Mayor Robinson congratulated Councillor MacKay on his pains- taking research work remarking that the tourist business is the greatest buincss in Canada today and. has replaced wheat in revenue to Canada. Councillor Nicholson in congratulating Councillor MacKay said that the address should be embodied in thc annual report of the Dominion Tourist Association. Councillor MacKay also paid a high tribute to former King Ed- ward and King George the sixth. Councillor Nicholson reporting .for the Finance Committee stated ‘ the Bank ‘of Nova Scotia the town Co., which amounted to about $83,- ir. the interest charge". Councillor MacKay congratulated Mayor Rob- inson and the chairman of the cess at being able to save that much of the tax payer: money. Bills were passed and other re- ports recelved. Council adjourned until ZQt/h-S. MRS. J. PARTILIDGE Mas. J. H; Partridge, 91 died at 6 p. m. Sunday afternoon ln he. , home at 408 South Firs; street fol- lloivlllg c. low dogs Cllllillll illness. She had been in faring health throughout thc past wintcr. < Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Allcn Funeral Home with the Rev. L. M. Kitzlnll- ler, local baptist Ilfl-t-JJI’, officiating. Burial was made ln Iriillcrest ceme- tery Albany. Miss Priscilla Horne was born on Prince Edward Island, January 12, 1845 and came to Wisconsin with her parents when ll years of age. Her early life was spent in Janos- vil.e and Broclhearl. She was mar- ried to Joseph Partridge January 28, 1886, and they settled on a form near Albany. Mr. Partridge died Ln August 189i. . Mrs. Partridge ivas the last sur- Catholic confederation, dealt more _ P1560 1n the ecmmmlcal 5mmu°“ vivlng m mbcr of the original E. W. lof the country- [stressed five. important factors: ‘ Increase in our trade. dBOIBB-Se m unemployment, progress in indus- tries. improvement in our agricul- ture, etc. “To all those who inquire as to what we are doing against Com- .munism, I can only replyi ‘Yfead lSir Charles Gordon's speech’! A lTake Oath 0f lAllegiance To. ‘King George lll V mm oath of allegiance to Kl“! George VI was taken by 111B“ judicial and government offllomifllfl of Prince Edward Island in C M'- lottetown yesterday- Lieutennnt Governor Geonle D- Q931015, chief Justice J. A. Math- lesorl and Mr. Justice A. E. Arsen-f ault of the Supreme 001111 0 prime Edward Island swore alleg- lance to the new ruler in the his- toric Confederation Chamber of the Ilegiflative Buildinfl vssisrdflv forenoon. The oath of allegiance was admin- istered in the same chambers yes- terday afternoon to Premier Thane A, Campbell and the remaining members of thc provincial execu- tive by His Honor Lieut. Governor D2113: was the fourth time with- in the past 18 months that the lpiout. Governor administered the yoathc?! allegiance to the Provin- men . “all, ovmdship, Chief Justice Mathieson conducted swearing in ceremonies for Lieut. IGOWYHOI’ ‘DeBlois and then Mr. Justice Arsenault administered the oath to 1-111; lordship. The Chief Justice heard the oath from Mr. Justice Arscnault. Mr. Justice Saunders. who was absent from the city. W111 ti" u" oath on his return. The oath taken by the members or the executive read: uI _ _ . do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George VI as lawful Sov- ereign of Great Britain and Ire- land and of this Province. d8- pendent on and belonlih! t0 the said Kingdom, and that I will de- I He Pflrtlmmrlyl-Iorne fa ily and had been a resi- dent of Evansville for thc past 32 years. She was guest of honour at a reunion and picnic of the Home family held at Leonard park last year. She was very active. (Xv-shim her age, and greatly enjoyed attend- ing to her household duties. Possessing great charm and a pleasing personality Mrs. Partridge was loved by all who knew her and leaves an entire community to mourn her passing. Shc is survived by four cllidrcn, Mrs. O. H. Perry, Evansville; Ar- thur Partridge, Albany; Mrs. Gert- rude Swancutt. Kansas City, M0.. and Dr. Vaughn Partridge. Rolla, M0., and seven grandchildren and foul" grant-grandchildren, son, V. C. Holmes. John Apfcl, Chci Miller, E. L. Finn and Arthur Cain. -Evansviile. Wisl, paper. fend him in thc utmost of my power against all fraltorons coll- splrslcics or iitiClllpls whatsoever which may be made against his person. crown and dignity, and that I will do my utmost endeavor to disclose and make known to 501's all trcasons and traitorous con- splracics and attempts which I may know to be against him or any of them, all this I do swear with- out any oquivoration, mental evas- ion or secret reservation, so help me God." The oath taken by His Honour and the Justice: read: "I do swear that I will be faith- ful and true and bear true alleg- iozlce to His Majesty King George VI, his heirs and successors. ac- cording to law. So help me God." Kidney Acids Bob Your Rest mfg. 22H: lru-l-glio-owslo and count limp. Ofion llnynbinmc it on “nq"|" when i! Insy be i ir hill!!!‘- llullliy 1.1.1.»,- film rm h“ "'- biml. If they srs hully and hill PM" shy in Ibo system and slosplsunsu, “he, luehcln often ‘follow. ll t slap well, fry Dodils Kidney ll- lnli s century lho fnvonlo moody. I03 Budd's Kidney Pills Pnllbsul'cl's wcrc Marvin Paticr-' H15 Mgjgzly, hi: heirs, and succes- l (Continued from D8815 9) Eden told the House c "Jamil consignment of gas masks" had been sent to Spain. Government spokesmen emphasized quickly that Gen. Franco's Fascist forces were equally entitled to them 1t the some prices because the masks are couurv ulcua Non -In terve ti on StanclReaffirmed p under a non-intervention classifi- cation of “medlcal supplies"--not l munitions. Not Violating Pact Iden intimated that such. aid to the civil war belligerent-s was , within the scope of non-interven- |tion defined by the European Neutrality Committee. BY FRANK WESTON “No man can be sure," asserted one day be a murderer.” ‘rMaybe," I replied, "but for most of us it's a remote possibil- ity." "But it is so easily done,” he in- ‘ ‘ sistcd. "A rush of anger. A revol- ver shot. A man is dead! As in this case," he added, pointing to the newspaper that lay on the table before us. l '“I'here certainly are s. lot of ‘ crimes-lpassloncls in France," Iad- mittcd. "The Latin temperament, I suppose-and too much revol- var-carrying." "It is so easily done," he said again. ' We chatted on for a while. He member o; @119 League of Nations ‘l that through arrangements with was a smamsh- 5°°d4°°km3 amp of middle age, whom I knew as 1 11mg been b; t f; u b1- Fleming, a native of London on lg: Zlllfimlllilyufnrelltltllis fall-Will: ‘ ance clue atoeth: ‘lll/tribal llgavlang 16"‘? 5mm smgalmre- m‘! a Mm" guest there at my hotel in Cler- communist, and revolutionary pro- 693 thus effecting g, saving o; $600 mont-Ferrand. Perhaps it was on account of his beard and an occa- sional quick gesture, that I had not, until we first spoke, taken I m this request directly button Finance Committee on their suc- l him t0 b6 Englsln- We 80$ 0n er l quite well together, and joined l-forces for auto-bus excursions to Mont-dOr, Chatel-Guyon, and oth- i er stations-thermales, though hap- pily neither of us had need to drink their bitter waters. In long rovings over the fir-clad hills, we become more friendly in a few days than I had with my next- door neighbturs in Putney after ten years. "Suppose we take the tram upto , Royat," he suggested when we had ‘shelved the topic of murder, "and then walk on towards the Puy. It will be cooler up there." In less than an hour we were ‘footing it on a road whence. Cher- mont-Fcrrand - whose ancient churches make strange company l for its modern rubber factories- ‘ was displayed beneath us like an aerial photograph in colour. In the opposite direction, clear-cut and splendid in thc sunshine, rose the peak ‘of the Puy-cle-Dome, lord- paramount of beautiful Auvergne. l Then it was that my companion startled me. ' “It is not far from here," he said l "to the spot where I shot a man." l "Good Lord!” I ejaculated..- , “Why?” . ‘ “I was in love-—I was mad." l “Oh." , “Would you like to hear the yarn?” ,1 "Very much." ; ‘Then you must first know that my rcol name is not. Fleming-it is Paul Garron, and that I am not English-dint Hench." l "Really! ....I should never have gucsscd it from your speech." “fhcro is good reason why I should speak your language fluent- ly ..Well, the story began twenty- ErTJEr-Xliii: (Continued from page 9) worked out very nicely with the proclaimed innocence of the gypsy and the real culprits exposure. The cast was as follows: The Professor, kindly and a. drcalncr; touching art-Mr. George Hart. Stephen-John McEwen. Andrew—Cliflord Campbell. Janette. "studying" art — Edith - Whitlock. Roberta-Grace Diamond. l Susan, who starts all the trouble l —0lga Walsh. Rastus; "dc man ob all work"- though the last opter has only Just been written ....I was twenty-three, and in‘ , my ncw friend, "that he will not, love with a girl named Estelle. W "l" 58°. Fourbevillc. She was tall, with a! fine flgurc, and of course to mo! the most. beautiful woman in thc‘ world. Her nature was rather hard l but she had quick wits and intcl- ligence. Like every lover I thought l life without the woman I loved‘ was impossible. You know how it is." “Yes.” "Alas, for me she had only an infatuation that soon passed. For a. few months 1 lived in heaven. Then she began to grow cold-herl smile, her voice, the touch of her,‘ hand, every day a little coldenl She was freezing me ofI, as youl‘ say. But I demanded no explanaq tlon. Why? Because I knew I wasl losing her-I knew and yet I dar- l ed not let myself know, if you un- l derstand what 1 mean." "You could not face it." “I could not, I simply could not. when two people love and then one turns away, it is hell for the other, is it not?” _ "No doubt about that." At this point we left the road and took a footpath. “We will go this way," said Gan-on, "and so we shall come to the very house where I shot Gaston Vcrdicr." “He, I take it, was your rival?" “Yes. But that I did not know till the day I shot him. I was aware that he know Estelle, but I thought it was just in a casual vmy. At the time, it was easy for them to meet, because she lived at Royat, and it was not a greatdls- tance from there to his house-I which is really a country cottage. where he and his mother used to oorne up in summer to escape thc heat of the town. l “He was taking a long holiday. and free all day, while I was busy 1n clermont, well out of the way..' on, I do not doubt that they mull often up here in the wilds - a splendid background for an affair of the heart, hcin?" "Splendid indeed," I said. "And how did you find out what w going on?" "Let us sit down,” he proposed, pointing to a felled tree; and when l we had installed ourselves .there and lit our pipes, he resumed: l "One day when I went to thc office where I worked as an Eng- 5 lish correspondent, there was notl much to do, and. my employer gave . me the afternoon ofl. I came to Rioyat to see Estelle, thinking we. might go for a country walk. Be- cause there had reoently been a highway robbery in the district, I brought my revo1ver-—-I0r which it , chanced that I had only one car- g trldge left. l “Estelle was not at home. Her, mother-who approved of me as a l suitor-told me she had gone to visit friends who lived in one of those villas hack on the road wc came along. As I knew the people, ‘ I called there, but found they had i not seen her that day. So to pass l the time I decided to take a walk ' up here in the hills. Then on re- l turningithrough Royat I should no doubt find that Estelle had got home again. "I walked for miles, and coming back I took n. path that passes Verdlcrs cottage, which, as youl will see, lies in an isolated placc. It was dusk. As I was nearing the cottage, someone lit a. lamp lnone of the rooms. It was Verdier, and there in one of the rooms with him Estelle!" Garrons dark eyes blazed at thc memory. “But was not his mother Lloyd Weeks. Teen, a delicate flower ofaGipsy 3 —Annabelle Lawson. Neon, an "older sister" — Sylvia. Partridge. Teng Selah, one of Chinwe love- liest-Jean Welsh. Amah, devoted to Tong Selah and China-Hope Dingwell. Miss Perrlwinkle. collector of gold pieces-Mary Hooper. i Policeman Perry-Douglas Mac- Lennon. Policeman Winkle, of the town of l Bohunkus-Donald MacClure. Sheriff-Douglas Sheri-en. Plainclothesman, who knows Miss Perriwinkle-Kimball Keeping. Chorus members of art class. The ensemble girls were: Mir- iam Hughes, Rena Jay, Eleanor Mary Duffy, Bernice Wood, Jean Hamm, Margaret Crockett, Bernice Worth. Ruth Balcom, Helen Moore Constance Williams. Kitty Wil- linms. Helen Dingwell. Beverley VonIdcrstlne, Miriam Netting Mary Welsh. Pauline Simmonds, Norma Dalziel, Blanche Ocombs. June l MacPherson, Marion Matheson. | Ensemble boys included: Earl Wonnacott, Robert Dickie, Douglas there?" I asked. "No-no one else was there at ‘ all." l ..H.m_.. "I stood behind a trce and watched Verdicr close the shutters. Already I believed the worst. My first idea was to go straight to thc cottage-but then I decided wwuit ...When it was quite dark I crcpt into the garden and up to thc lwindow. There was a tiny crevice l lSherren, Bill Moreaide, Bill Mur- lray, Ivo Cudmore, Aelin Thomp- ‘son. Hugh Campbell. Policemen ensemble: Darrel Mac- Quarrie, John Sterns, Allan Mac- Innis, Bartley Ward, Fred Wollcr, Lomer Gay. The dancers for the Rainbow Dance-Mary Walsh. Marie Davis. Beryl MacDonald, Verna Vail; and for the Fairy Pipers, Barbara Nash Alma Gomez. Margaret Lawson. Fleur l-Iillion, Joyce Coffin. Mar- jorie Spillett, were exceptionally pretty. and very gracefully danced their way into the hearts of thc -without lacing sr-rn. “Flinn tho po- ‘ must come with lnc till we gctncar in the shutters. kissing Estelle... “At. such moments it is some other self that takes pomession of us. I drew my revolver—but Iwas afraid of shooting Estelle. so I tapped on mo wood. Verdler jumped up and stepped towards the window. I fired through the l crevlce...I had a glimpse of him staggering backwards. . . .” Garron paused. “And then?" I 1 asked. "Then panic selmd ma. I turned to run, u‘... had only got‘ a yard or so when I tripped and fell. My head struck the stone border of a flower-bed. I lost consciousness... When I recovered, I was lylngjust inside file door of the oottage.with I saw Verdier‘ newspapers reporting the death oi Verdier. I ivanted to forget. I never wanted to sec his name or Estelle: again. It sonic-d to mt fortunate. ln one sense, that I was an orphan and had no relatives who cared much about me, be- cause that made it easier to ban- ish the 01d lilo and lmlnmrse my- self more completely’ in the new. "But as they grow older, nil-n learn wisdom-—<lr at any razavilcir opinions clulngu. Bl: that as 1t may. I came to realise that love is a disease that attacks whom it will, and is one of the most difficult maladies to escape. How could anyone be blamed for falling in love’? Such things are outside the human will. They just happen to Estelle standing over me, weeping.‘ ‘She told me that Yerdier‘ ‘was dead... . “She raged at mo. I had killed § the only man she ever loved, ruin- ed her llfe- I was a Imlrderdl’, nt 0°36’ ‘.01’ the Illltlvtine. B0 she stormed on. "Whenlafled herii’ she In‘ ‘ quite sure ho was dead, alie saldl his body was already growingcold. i She threw open for a moment the door of the room where he lay,’ covered with s. sheet. “But soon she became less hys- terical. ‘Perhaps it was a little my fault.’ she admitted. ‘It is terrible that I should be the cause of two men dying. Terrible! Look, Paul-—l you must escape. That's why I dragged you in here, so that 1f anyone passed they should not ace you.’ She was so strongly built, and I-so light, that. her being ablo to do that lllfl not surprise me. ‘No one has come, no one could have heard the shot,’ she went on. ‘You must escape!’ "It is no use,’ I protested. ‘I1 should be a miserable fugitive, and ‘ finally caught. They may as well take me now. I have lost yqu. I have nothing to live for.’ “ ‘But you must escape for my sake,‘ she insisted. ‘I cannot have another death on my conscience- you must go abroad.’ “I argued that it was impossible. _ but she held to her idea, ‘Listen,’ she said. ‘It is dark, and if we arc careful we can both get home lice come to me. I shall say that when I left Gfhtbn he was all right. I cannot deny 1 saw him at all. because on our way hcrc we met scvcral people. I shall tell them that I came here to see his mother, and whcn" I found sho was not at home, I went a\v:1y....You Royat. Come. we must go at once!‘ “Just as we got outside the cot- tage, she slipped in again. ‘I have tokcn tho shoot off him.’ she ex- plained when she came out. ‘An enemy would not con-l‘ ll-lll up so -—as. his poor face-terrible!’ “ ‘Tonight.’ silo said, as soon as we were fairly on our way, ‘you will write to your employer saying you have ncvrs that a close relat- ive in tho north of France is dying, and that you are leaving at once to sco him. But what you will ac- ually do is to gct the first train to Marseilles. There you must get work on a ship and go-anywhere -thc further thc better.’ "In my distress. it/was not till we were nearing Royat that I re- membered my revolver. ‘What has happened to it?’ I asked her. “ ‘Mon Dieu.‘ she cried, ‘but I did not think of it-it must still be there where you fell!’ l “Without that.’ I said, “how could tllcy prove that I killed him? ‘ We must go back for it.’ " "But she would not have it — saying that having once got away from the place it wouldbe mad- ‘ ness to go back. How could we be l sure there was not already some- one thcre?,..Wcll, I was in no fit . state to withstand her, and shc had her way... “She talked as though it was easy to got out of France by find- ing work on a ship under a false nnlnc~for me who knew nothing l about ships! It did not look easy l at all to me. Yet, by some miracle | of luck. as it seemed. I Ififlliflgffl lt,lfor the next day, in Marseilles, l I was engaged as a sicker on n } l l l l | l small British tramp just sailing for the East. Scvcral of the crow had deserted. and the caiptnin did not ask too many questions." At this junciurc, I interrupted Garron to ask whether he had not . read the newspapers before he loft. Marseilles. "Yes, I did," hc told mo, "but there was nothing about Vcrdier. That did not surprise me. ll it was quite likely that there would bc some delay in finding the body." “You must have had a pretty ed. “Ilnicvd I did," he said, "but I got uscd to it more or lcss...And now I must pass rapidly over the next twenty-five yours. for thc first two of which I was at sea. I took every chance to improve my Eng- lish, which was already good when I left France, for I decided to ad- opt thc role of an Englishman as the ship I was on collided with another and sank. We were saved and taken to Singapore, and in the circumstances there 3X35 nothing strange about my liming no proof of my idcntlty. On the ship, they hadn't bclicvcd my numc was real- ly John Fleming. but no one in Singapore troubled to question it. I boldly declared I was English, and before long I got a job ashore. “Three years later thc war broki- out, and I joined up with the Brit- ish forccs, I WAS sent to Ewpi and the Dardancllcs, but never to France. "After the war I returned to Singapore. whore I found better employment than before, and ulti- mutcly worked myself into a good positions-as you can judge from the fact that I am now on four audience. The audience applauded very heartily after each of the two scenes. months‘ leave on full pay. "From the day I left Marseilles, I mode no attempt to get hold of ‘ cloud over . riddle. tough time as a sicker," I remark- l _people. They do not justify mur- den... "So it was that my remorse at kiltilg Vordier, instead of dying away, remained an cvcr-prosenl. an otherwi>e fairly happy Me. It would never dis- puae. That was what I still be- lieved when. yielding at ins‘. to the desire to sec my native land attain, I embarked six wcvlzs" ago at Sin- gapore. "You will ask me if I did not fear to return to Franco. I did not. My crime was so old, thc war Eilgllsh papers than: tllllll", scam to b0 any INK. Willi‘. I min spool: French with n llllll: hll-lirition, so little have I list-d it for n qnaricr of a century‘. No, Paul (zcrrllzl was dead and foruoltcll. Will) lvns. go- ing to trouble about John Flem- ing. an English vnnnr ' 1 111g East?.. Soil (‘zinlc llUllll‘ r: wont to Paris. Nalurullv, I (llil not in. tend‘ to come to Clcrmont. "T716". my fritlld, wine one ol those ironic strokes Lllzll. llrlrlpcn at least once in most men's ll‘.'l‘.'s', My firm received from 011C of tits rubber factories hero a nroprwsul u; take their agency l0!‘ Malaya“ Vifhzlt more natural than to cable me to go to Clermont and discuss the matter? They did >0. I could not refuse. I never ilad any rela- tives or close friends in Clcrmont, other than Estelle. and evl-n 11 511; was still there and recognized mo, she would not give me away. At the end of my first our in an. é-(éwfl my fears had almost vanish- "Thrlt evening I “Tilt for awzlik Infifin-fiibli’. I was drmvn ill this dir- ection. ’I‘hcl‘e lS. I snpprm, 50mg psychological rc-zlsonfor. l iillllgs but all I can loll you ls that 1 could not resist. Tn put 1t ..ilw1~,1l,-, I ended by llllflltlg ' ' lllc very voltage Vt-rdior. "To (inscribe nay 1._-.»;,;,‘Q_., m-Hnd not be possible. I stood lilcll- . as .a stone. It was d ' I ;=.l I hnlf cxpvlktl ll) si-l on and rcvcnl \‘l-r "And i; (i112. look illorvrl ‘ - Till-re they * bt-lol-ll 1...‘. Estelle and Vcrdzvr, clinlllzc- ago. but alive and ;...Till.s tlnlc in‘ cw slluttcrs, fll.ll illtwll window-dilly wl. ri- eyes! (l by heated argumvnlfll ‘ l‘ '. their voices. l _"I was still standing thorn, 5-1111 ivlill irrror. WllPn Vcrriwl" (Jill! ozn mlo thc garrlcu and m; 3;. came up and shun- n11 rim-it" torch into my fact. In [no l-‘lronh. he knew mo. “Grand 1li1-u_4_"¢5[ Garron!’ he cried." Gem" stooped. and aftcr refill- ing his vim thoughtfully, invltpd me to gilcss the sclllliozl to {no "I can only suppolsc. ed. "that Estelle u-nr. “linking you had kl ll= V ._ that he was badly Vilkgimdigcuegu] recovered." ' ' "She was not nlistakcn," swercd. " I hazard- nllslllkel] 1'11 he a11- “She knew all the tori-m "But when sh h lying in that rognfvowed m“ mm "He was DOSIIUZ. of (‘OllIS€—5hg gilfiSSiid rightly chm, 1 would n.0, “Punt W 8o near him." “gglvalal gixe itlup." ‘ s l e . ffllnld he was not llrslluchvilillllilt :11? Went upstairs and peered out of Z txllndom “my 50W mo lvini‘ on lo ground, a1 ;l ‘ ‘ . carried me ml riI sumo down nnll recovering my w. the iluick-wittod (‘ll her cynical pill: succeeded, would 5i “link for thcln. (If me- and Punish mo. cause no more trouble. m" °f U"? My. ran-n; would no doubt agrnc to ho Tying Vordicn. “Cd. nothing Voilrh-Vifhnt do friend?" "It's thc most extraordinary thin Ive heard for a long time." I if Life ls cxtrnorclinnr_v.,,A,nd now wc go a lliilo {urthcnli wilisho“ you the cottage." "YOu aren't afraid BOlrIg to the police?" ‘No. I had _quiic a chat wit ills-m that nli-lllt. nl- admitte thflt. in my piacc, hc might lmvq donc what I did. Bolicve me, they don't wont to rake it all up again —cvcn if tllcy could prove that I am not John flcming." Ten minutes latcr we ivcrc closc to the cottage that had been thl stage of this cilrlous (lrnmn. From the shcltcr of a spinnr-j’. we garcd on a thin. lrhflv-llziirl-li man and a portly woman, who ivcro in thc garden. Thcy \‘.'."l'." hiking loudly and grsticulaliny: n. i‘. _ a. far from lfiPlifllj’ cli l woman's voice struck mo i a Slll‘(.‘\\'. lllfllll)‘ It would gut rid every. I should With ms parent! l‘ mar- ..If it drd not 511C. ivonicl bo iost.... you think of it, my of Vcrdiel “So that is Vordicr and Ehirllc.‘ I said. “Ycs.“ answcrcd Gnrron. snnling sardmllcalli’. "Whcn two mcn strive for a woman." he ncldcd. “i‘ is not always he who gets her is H the lucky one."