New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD HE ROSE ]ROY EP(CKERsi IN THE DARK Chapter 1 THE GIRL ON THE CLIFF Sunset. The cliff-head looked out to tha west, straight into the last molten gold of the day. The sands at the cliff's foot glittered and dazzled for & moment. Then slowly they lost their glory and carkened to L!\e| grey of the sea. Up in the shelter, built into the| face of the cliff, it had been dusk for some time but the man and the | girl seated there had not noticed it. “Sunset,” said the man, “you haven't seen a sunset until you've| seen the end of an African Bli goes with a rush—reds “I shall greans and purples rushing up from | the skyline, the sun rushing down, | all the beauty and all the savagery | clashing together and becoming one. 5 “But it's no good trying to de- | scribe it. You must see it.” He sighed so sharply that the sigh was nearly a sroan. “What is the matter?" asked the girl yuickly. | “I was remembering that perhaps | I shall never see any kind of sun- et again.” “Oh!” There was such pain in her ex tlamation that he became inco- | hgrently apologetic. “I'm sorry! I can't imagine what made me say such a thing! Must need more exercise or some- thing. I don't usually indulge in cheap melodrama—" | “What is the matter with your eyes?” He answered the simply as she had a “Nobody quite knows. germ—a poisonous germ—in them | while I was out in the wilds. Two or three doctors —fine fellows!— | are on the germ’s track, and al- | though they haven't really found | out much about him they believe | they know what will kill him." “And that is—?" | “Another germ. Only, you see, | they aren't sure. It's a big r In a way, they hate to take| that risk. Personally, I feel I'd rather risk blindness than be mtr‘ tering about like this indefinitely.’ “You can't see—clearly “1 can’t see you clearly—no." The girl blushed beautifully Tiad told her what she had just not had the courage to ask. She felt & keen disappointment that he could | rot see her clearly, and then an im- mense flood of pity for him. “I can see fairly well in a shaded room,” he was laining in a mat- ter-of-fagt way. “Sometimes if one shaft of light falls on a face, I can see it as well as ever. But out her in the air I have to wear these dark | glasses and that obs very- | thing; even—the sunset.” i She believed he had been goini to say “even you,” clasped her hands tightly in her lap. She was amazed at herself was she doing? What was thinking? This was only a encounter with a man whose name she didn't even know. She had been waiting for another man of an utterly different type—the man she loved. She repeated it nly 19 herself—the she 'oved and was going to m Well, she h him rather impatic was o inexcusab this stranger had come uncertainly into the shelter. And he had asked her if he might sn she had spoken to couldn’t remember cenversation 1 50 much, so wonderfully much, been said “I can see you 1 end fairly tail that you rather slowly” he told hor. Al that is about all. Perhaps it be cause I can see so little of you thai 1 feel I should k your again the moment I heard it get to know voices. I shall forget yours.” She felt as breathls had come running the cliff. “Then at our next me said bravely, “I must be spealk.” He had hoisted fecet and stood now looked out over the her head flung back, intently. What big man! And ¥ was mot outlandishly tall and not question as | 4 it. | I got al res o and she What she chance m cen waiting for he | er. oke him first. § quite how tarted because had or perhaps is voics You never ip the face himself as tho At stid {I lose |orably to hin He managed weight perfectly— \ burly either. ]‘(!Ahl and his even the not make him clumsy. She liked, too, his bronzed skin | and his untidy brown hair. She was quite sure his eyes were gray And there was something in his way of suddenly smiling and turn- ing his head that stirred her pro- foundly. Had she not been already in love and pledged to marry, she could have dreamed that she loved this man. “Please tell me your name, ventured. He answered her almost she absent- never forget your “Grannock. Saxcly Grannock.” She turned the name over in her | hand to this little | her | had come g Islar She mind. She village on Lo loved lived there. had staved here for nearly three weeks and | had grown to know most cf the res- | ider it, but Saxely Gran- no had never seen until this evening. be Kk she sec ed at him, a dozen que her lips. Where did he | ? Who w when he | carrying dreams | into stranger lands? Apparently one could tell him manner of intimate things, vealed to the 1d receive hour upon hour of confidence- vet one couldn’t possibly ask him sout his lodgings! “I ought to have 1t long ago,” she “My name—' No!” He swung round toward her, checking her in mid-word. don't tell who you are. see, if the cye treatment my me not to be a at all, except wonderful voice. And if you're ed. hen Tl find you. I'll—TI1 ad- for you. We'll have Uil adverti . Come hon had thrust a finger into his t pocket and now held out to small, gleaming object whieh growing dark appeared to be carved from ivory. u to have it. I've carried because I'm so damned he tions on come from wasn't s he, never re man one leved, introduced my: said hurriedl You and me fails bl to remember you L voice. A very whis- cured?” she vert br a rose ke I want y it for superstitious Then surely I mustn't fake away your luck “Luck!" “I've lost money, 1'm the iv bring luck or “Until g a woman. To tt brings them vea thed , I've my He my laug shortly. lost my sight—1md, svpored o ill-luck either, until—* losing rose 1sn't en by woman both—heaven She watched him as he moved v afong the cliff-path. The twi- scemed ‘o reach forward and 1 to itsel , too, had a reak and the wait- oss scemed 1o her a bad to it a man Then awa light take h omen he Then a st shivered foot and passed steadily he had rou ‘ a could sec hadow he Tetar she bend nothing but the heav; Then | in spite deeply? She looked out id it all me in Far voups rad her vain ds wer Come 11k you by stood now 1 child s a look marry a “Hallie! shook her, not too his | gently. trouble with his sight did | kid, voice,” said Granock. face all | things | in exchange | and | spel , it's—it's better for | sent . | Can’t | to ma “Wake You'rz staring without ~sceing me. Poor you've been bored into a sort |or coma! What about running in town and seeing a show?” But he was mistaken —she was seeing him very clearly in spite of the remoteness of her thought; and for some reason she was sec- ing him as though he were a stranger. up! at me Chapter 2 SURPRISING NEW Tt was Lester's extraordir sical beauty that attracted her. Deep-eyed, golden-skinned, sweet- lipped—he was a young god roam- ing the cliffs where his nymph had /4 7174 e ¢ phy- hidden. Half absently, and 1 red-brown hair. “Awful waste to give such a heap of good looks to a man, wasn't it?” He laughed. She drew away from him. At first had been amused at such frank acceptarce of a handsome but lateiy the joke had begun to pall “She's And she put up a d it over his thick, jealous!” he exclaimed then he laughed again. “Oh. Hallie, whats it matter if a lot of fumb flappers make fools of them- sclves over me? You know it's only you I'm keen about. Hallie, your are dark as night, and yet they not really black. And one o your cyebrows is arched a little higher than the other—I like to try ¢ them match.” she evaded his touch. His as upon her, but it was not 50 strong tonight. “You've never told me anything about my voice,” she said. “Why, it's wonderful voice. But a She she interrupted him as though gretted her question, You were so late,”” she accused. “T waited and waited for you, Les- ter.” iy time, that was only sweetie, ten minutes behind And when I saw you had scized the heaven- opportunity of tackling old I just lay low.” ocks?” she repeated. “You let him jaw to you for nearly three hours, I counted 'em. Did you get a flock of jungle talk? imagine a worse life than fooling around among wild men and apes and crocodiles, but Socks doesn't scem cured of it vet.” She stood still and stared. “The man 1 was talking to,” she aid, “was called Saxely Grannock.” “T know. Socks. My brother. My | half-brother, to be ¢ “Your half-brother! Socks, 3 At the Age Women Dread “Three years ago I was in bed three months with a nerv- ous breakdown. After that I had to lie down often. I have four children, the youngest 21, and I board two little school- girls. I try to keep my home as a mother should but I am at the age so many women dread. Since taking six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable | Compound, I feel 100% strong- er.]am not so nervous and my appetite is better.”—Mrs. Della Hutsell, 623 East 1st Street, § Casper, Wyoming. Lydia E; Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Lvdia £ Pinkham Med. Co Lynn, Mass “We had different fathers. But mine died before I was born, mother brought us both up. She left me in Socks' charge— look here, I've told you all this before, surely!” “Yes, realize name never Socks. as you have., But I didn't that your half-brother's wouldn’'t be Broon and you called him anything but And you told me he Broon pulled her into his arms and kissed her savagely. wouldn't com> home before next Saturday.” “He turned up last night unex- pectedly. Something to do with his eyes."” “You didn’t tell me he was danger of going blind!” Her voice was shaking. “Do yon mean to tcll me—" cried Lester— ‘do you mean to tell me that you didn't know that for the last three hours you've been enduring the well-known Socks?” “No. I didn't know. . . . So {hat's why you thought I'd been clever.” Broon was Iy. “Oh, Lord, it's great! Now, If only we can make Socks believe you didn’t waylay him on purpose! He's a suspicion bird—old Socks. . Hallie, you may not have been such a clever kid as I thought but T bet you you've been twice as effective. Three hours of Socks! The trick is ours, all right.” She turned upon him with a fierceness as startling to her as 'to him. “Yes, it was a trick as we planned it, even when we thought he'd be able to take a good look at me. Fm ashamed of myself. And now he's nearly blind—" “A trick? My dear girl, it was plain common sense. . . . I've told vycu, Hallie, how mother left things. She had such profound faith in Socks’ judgment about everything that she left all her money in trust for me. I get it when and if marry a girl he approves of. Until hen—well, T get an allowance.” “You always scem to have plentv of mottey. And, after all, Lester, you don’t hav: to work for it.” “The Broons have always been gentlemen,” he explained magnifi cently. “And that—if you don't mind my saying so, Hallle—that's just the difficulty. Supposing we had gone to Socks and asked his Dlessing right off the bat? He'd iaveswanted to know all about you. naturally, and you'd have told him—" “That I'm earning my living as That my namos is Har- esmore—the name of my dear aunt who was mother and father to me and who told me that mny father had abandoned me.” Tha color was high in her cheeks. “She offered, before she died, to tell me all about him. I refusel even to hear his name. He'd abandoned me. T was glad to abandon him.” “Yes, T know—it's damn’ pathet- iz and Ellesmore's a nice name, but socially speaking, it's sort of in Jaughing immoderate- bad. You see— “Then suppose we solve the prob- lem by simply breaking off our en- gagement?” She had not meant to say it. She caught her breath. The next instant Broon had pulled her back into his arms and was savagely kissing her upturned face. "No, we won't break off our en- gagement, Hallie, I think not, Hal- lie—my Hallie. Lord, how I want you! And you love me, too, though you ride your little high horse now and then. Yes, you love me all right—" “Lester, ing me.” “Maybe T am a little. But you like it when I hurt you—you said once that you liked it. Hallie— Hallie—" She ceased to struggle. His spell was upon her, it clutched her fast. His kisses were on her eyes and her lips, his god-like, radiant fair- ness was alight with the flame that she of all women could kindle in him. But content let me go! You're hurt- underneath her languorous there hid the knowledge that it twas not his embrace that was hurting her tonight. It was the edge of something delicate, yet sharp, that she had slipped into her dress for safe keeping. The |ivory rose, warm between her breasts, had drawn her blood. (Copyright, 1930, by Roy Vickers) Fate brings Hallle back into the life of Saxely Grannock in tomor- row's chapter. §T. ELMO LODGE LINKS AWAIT OPENING PUTT Mayor Quigley Scheduled to “Drive” Off Tomorrow Night on K. of Private Course 8t. lmo lodge, Knights of Pyth- ias, will open its private golf course in the lodge rooms in Judd Hall on Main street, at 9 o'clock Wednes- ‘dny evening, following a brief lodge business meeting at 7:30. Plans of the committee on the golf course in- clude a three-handed match between Mayor George A. Quigley and rep- resentatives of the press. The may- or will “shoot” the first ball and after holing out will be followed by the newspapermen. After the threesome anave finished {the first hole, the lodge members will start play, and lots will be drawn by the golf committee to de- termine order of play, all players to be paired, two by two, and a prize given to the lowest score of the evening. Tournaments will be started im- mediately between members of the order and members of other K. of P. lodges in the Hartford district. All Pythians in New Britain and vi- cinity, members of any lodge of the K. of P, are invited to attend the opening tomorrow night. P. _ AUTOMATICIOIL HEAtOR for CARE-FREE RESIDENCE HEATING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930. ZIONISTS AROUSED BY LATEST POLICY May Transler Headquarters From London fo New York London, Oct. 21 (A—Zionist Jewry the world over today voiced protests at conditions in the new statement of British policy in Palestine, which they consider will impede their mak- ing of the Holy Land a national home for Jews. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, resigning his positions of president of the world Zionist organization and of the Jewish agency to emphasize his opposition to the British policy, - timated that because of its inaugur- ation it might be necessary to trans- fer the seat of Zionist activity from London to the United States. He has called a meeting of th2 political commission of the Zionist organization in London for Nov. 3 to discuss the entire matter. A mass meeting of Jews will be held Mon- day night in Whitechapel. The question of the transfer of the Zionist seat to the United States will come up at a meeting of the World Zionist congress and council of the Jewish agency to be conven- ed in February. Dr. Weizmann an- nounced that both he and the Zion- ist executive will remain in office until the congress meets. The new statement of British po!- icy, issued from the office of Lord Passfleld, minister of colonies, was published yesterday in conjunction with the report of the commission of Sir John Hope-Simpson, sent to investigate conditions which produc- ed the riots of August, 1929, in which 241 persons died. The statement reaffirms the terms of the British mandate from the League of Nations to govern the country, which says that the admin- istration must be equally just, fair and considerate of all the inhabi- tants of the country, regardless of race or religion. Among its features most objectionable to Zionists are the virtual closure of the country to further Jewish immigration, on the ground that very little land is left for settlement. Provision is made for mainte- nance of a considerable military and air force in the country to guard against a possible repetition of the August 1929 riots, and for establish- ment of a legislative council on the lines indicated in the 1922 statement of policy, to consint of a high com- missioner in Palestine and 22 mem- bers, of whom ten will be officially appointed members and twelve un- officially elected members. In a letter to Lord Passfield Dr. Weizmann bitterly assailed the State- ment of policy, saying: “World Jewry will be very dlsappointed and distressed at the government's atti- tude. But we won't abandon hope of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine. The congress and council of the Zionist organiza- tion and Jewish agency when they meet may consider it better to have the -officlal center of Zionism in America where there is a large Jew- ish community.” Of the statement he declared: goes as long away toward denying the hopes of the Jewish people in regard to a national home in Pal- estine as it is in the power of the government to do so.” ASTRONOMERS VOTE TOMEETINU. 5. Council, at New Haven Meeting Kccepts Harvard’s Request Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 21 (UP)— The congress of the International Astronomical Union will be held in the United States in 1932 for the first time, according to an an- nouncement by Dr, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard college ob- Actually Costs Less to Operate than your present Fuel! Placing your order now assures you an unhurried, careful installation be- fore the Fall rush. A telephone call will bring our represenative to your door. BARRY & BAMFORTH 19 MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 250 servatory. More than 300 astronomers, rep- resenting America and 20 foreign countries, are expected to attend the week-long session to be held that year at Harvard university. Dr. Shapley announced that his plan to have the congress convene here early in September, 1932, was | accepted by -the council of the American Astronomical society at a peclal session at Yale observatory | in New Haven, Conn., last week. Ordinarily the union, which meets every three years, would hold its next session in 1931, but it was de- cided to delay it until 1932 to make | it coincide with the eclipse of the sun which will be total in New Eng- land on August 31, 1932. Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer royal of uinu.and, will preside ‘over the congress. The last meeting of the union was held in Leyden, Hol- land, in 1928. 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