THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HAZELTON, B. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938 A Frances Shelley We es. aN. SERVICE vied now alld gone” but T. thought*#*L, was afraid***" “ls Madeline upset? y Tubb laughed heartily. that.” “I sea,” Dehoxah snid quietly. Grandmother looked ~up~ from her to her own rooms with a last cheer the ful goodnight smile. But as her door shawl. “Would it be possible to have had closed, his smile fadedl. another copy made of this?’ she im-| There was a’ Hght under’ his’ own quired. ; door, He: opened it, went In, and ‘¢los-- “[’m suyé'I cam get any number,” ed it quietly behind him. Tubby sat* Tubby said at once.- “They're Bryn's in the arm chair beside the window, graduntion pictures. He’s wearing the waiting for him, o gnlity expectant fown and, houd there, I can get ’em look on his face, from the photographer in Palo Alto,” “Palo Alto? . “That's where, Bryn ‘graduated, course, at. Stauford,” “Stanford?” , Grandmother . repeated, evenly, “I have moved henrven nnd earth, to create a good impression, to make everything move smoothly’ and comfartubly,. no questions asked. Give of |with wrinkled brows.. Continued from last weelk “Tam so glad you have come,” Grandmother was saying. She settled “Who is Simon?’ “Simon? ) Deborah heard’ fumily. went there. herself saying. , Oh, “he’s Sally’s husband. “Isn't that ra me another two mouths and you could’ ther strange?” have come up here and done your dam- Oh, I dou't think so. He took eD-'nedest. But right now, well you could © gineering and they’ve a rattling g00d nut have picked a hetter. ‘time. T'm eugimeering school. . Bryn’s family fii a vuew broom, " They're part of: . They “always Tubby groaned, “I didn’t ° know 1 was putting my foot in it,” he said re- dismally. “She told me herselt ' that tue Stanford tradition. siine in feotball.” “Bryn's family?’ Grandmother ; “Bryn w iilked: slowly, hend bent: frGhae “On, I do the dvot of Grandmother's room; “ thathed, she: will J not think #0,” slie’s too sensible for night to the door ‘of his own. ‘He ‘nad? sthing did. = just helped her upstairs and hid “seen? Svould ‘never @ “happy “For the last two weeks,” Bren said “d dozen girls,” she | is wihappy, troul- bat: fdvift out. And if any (Appen to her, Debornh again, She'd always. think. she'd..fuiled, her.” Cubby stoad up. IIc. moved ‘across -to his friend, and faced him, “Bryn,” ‘he said steadily, “I-don’t want to make any. nore .wistakes. ,. I. think Tm sure, pit I'd like your word fur it.. I ever fiw you like this before. Is it the real ‘ting, . Bryn You ate-in love with Deborah?” ryan. pulled away. He went across 1) the window, and stood looking out a the stars, Ue turned itt last. *Yas',’ she ‘said. Tubby: Swi Mlow ed, ed ike a :foo1” . “Its. altight, Tubby, , Hither either it. does: come: out: alent, or it. ‘doesn’t, Nothing: you said would make years, ; “Tin sorry IT net- ‘any: difference to Debornh, not-even if you told her I'd been in love with hall She doesn’t care any- ‘thing about me.” “Listen,” Tubby . said. “Why don't lerself again in the pillows and drew They're érazy about ench ‘other, . you pented slowly. Deborah, sick at heart Youd explained everything; and she you ust show her how you feel, Bryu? the thin Paisley. smooth over her knees know, they always were, but they did jiuent Tubby’s eye. At sight of her called you Bryn. ‘What difference ] mean, put your arms around her avid “I have suggested to Bryn any num- Wet quarrel until they were married. fioy nis own slowly lengthened. her of times that he might have some Now, here,” Tubby went on rummag- mouth fell open. “But surely,” Grand- called? Naturally, I thonght His does it make,’ shé ‘said, ‘w hat he's ‘you'd of his friends out and visit us, but as img with one hand and holding out 9 joiner went on, “surely bis family all done the sensible thing, wad’ confessed” , yet we bave been so busy putting the flat round pareel with the other. “This house and ourselves in order.” Tubby ‘v qnired? bag. “Yes, he explained it to me, and ask- not mind, matter what he is knewn him a long fortably. He settled A stately figure _ dourwnry, ing a bell. He loo Waited. this is Burch. to make you comto nother sald gently. put the hell on the were quite majest withdraw. “HL Dubby call “Yes, sir.” In a few minutes heavy pigskin bag iuwiy ongain. Ie, lisp, quiet, ‘Phe ‘city ‘1s No one. heard he ey was looking yer very old family, 6 Nobody there will known.” ‘hox, - ed it, and there, - wiist ; the earings: oi ‘looked at 1 them: “Ig your sister “very great friend 4 : other ft He'd ‘let her ¢ cu aradierte, 4 i #00 ich ‘wigelng, “Yes,” Tubby was beginning com- serene, With a small silver tray hold- “Oh.” Tubby sid. I think he will be able side of Grandmother. ine my beg, will you Burch,” called. . tine, Mr, Forbes?” “Mrs, Larned, rtable.” ; Deborah miwrapped the parcel si- yatehing Deborah, cl me if I minded. Of course I did lently. Inside, looking out from I have become very fond of beautiful heavy silver frame was Bryn onq yaag the little silver bell. him, even in this shart time. Tt does't face. The “you will Hike this” luved him-as much as that. ay | sray eyes -twinkled. 0p y,9% tired, dear,” she tuld her grand- You hare &t her; the mouth «was firm and quiet. She looked at it. She banded it across ri to. Grandmother, vent to Princeton, I remember quite ““Confessed what?" is from me. It's the only way you'd distinetty. That. would be his father ; ‘ “Cubby was silent. “is frankly staring at her, ever get it. I thought you'd appreci- “De you cal! hin Bryn now?” he en- ate it,” he mnttered, his head in the | a] “What you've suececdud in doing - is raising a question at the back of her mind. She doesn’t actually mistrust me, even yet, but she wonders, n little, I dowt know what the devil you’ told them, but it was certainly enough. , There wasn't a suspicion in her mind of my identity. Now you've succeeded | in giving her something to puzzle Th er. She. never quizzed me about my and his uncles, He has no brothers.’ I was thinking of his moth- es family,” Tubby suid at Inst, stilt the verandah “You Deborrh went across mother, “You must hare some re- eshment. Let me take Mr. Forbes away, and you rest fot a few minutes down in his chair She: suid. ' . Before tea comes.” » heople before. Tonight she asked me appeared in the - Grandmother took it and held it Si- Grandmother lifted her fan and duestions. If Deborah hady’t. been It was the butler, bland and lentiy before her, After a moment moved. it slowly before ber face, “] there Pd have had to wreck the show.” Deborth saw her fumbling for her will be glad to have some ten, Debor- “Listen,” Tubby said desperately, ked at Tubby and handkerchief. She wiped her — eyes ‘ah” she murmured. His face was almost. pale. “I didn't surreptitiously. She loved him, She The tray came almost as she spoke, know this whole business meant so aad at the same moment canie the uch to you Bryn. I ‘thought it was. well, Kiss her. . : eNO “Why.” . _ ce “She gave me in opportunity ‘once. Jo owas afraid to. She workdn’t under- tinh Yowve got.to reinember she doesn't understand anything. I'd tri- ghtei her. Can’ t you do that” i’'s in letting her get used to mv. Quee she has’ confidence in: me, reiily trusts me, once we get to be friends. then perhaps I can*** ob, touch her ‘hand once, in a while, “Lut if I frighi- ‘ened her now—I’m sunk.” “She woulda’t (be guess yout in ‘love, full tight: You're too modest, Bryn. ‘She . wouldy't le frightened. She’d find herseif: return- ing your Iciss... It's more or less an un- conscious process, «any w any. isn't it?” Brin. stared at -him, the gray eyes “Lhere,” Tubby said, lifting a fiery yyine of Bryn's uiotur up the Youd, all a lark, You said it was, I kuew reiting far away. They came back Bureh bowed and * Mudeline.” murmured an acknowledgment of the - introduction. He advanced slowly ond small table at the His movements ic. He began to ed after him, “get he returned with a which he set down befure Tubby on the poreh. He ‘went Tubby fumbled in — pocket for a key ring. He looked at Deborah. ; “Pve brought you'some wedding pre | xouts,” he ‘said with his fascinating “There wasn’t time to tell. any- one before you left Byra made me promise I wouldnt tell auyway, as if At could have been kept his He opened the San Francisco buzzing.” ” “Oh, dear,” Delhiorah said faintly. tT. Her Grandmoth- Y proud. “His is a f course,” she srid. “Hven! in, San: Francisco the - wedding was certain to be a matter of comment _ ]' remember us, but I mim pleased to think that Bryn is well ‘Tubby drew forth a tissue-weapped “This is from my sister Sally,” he explained, handing it to Deborah. ay _ ‘ubiwranped it, it long’ velvet jeweller's box; she open- in the white velvet - lining lay a Whole. sult of rose- colored erystals, exquisitely strand of the neckiace dropped to her were pendants on sil ° ver chain; there were two sparkling Mideline: rout sister: too?” braclets. and. a Deautifil ring, “cut, “The long Sally ‘tg she a of Bryn’s too?” “Yes);indeed; .They've adored ench ithe fait : x Ae. a hen Sally’ atid si! leh) ‘to -au arrel,: a! Bryn: thee ally: went to for sympathy, his ‘dite’ ery Cont.” on -his shoulder, i and patt:, ‘her—you. Anow, ithe. way men. aor “Tubby ‘said to’.Grandmother with tier ‘pnd: ‘then. che. would. | sh gli oft ‘and telephone: Simon,’ give him and: tell, him where | 7 WVUS - jalwaya Inside was ¢ , Debor- . It was a most exquisite. rose-colored a few secotids later be, came around blind if you weren’t*#*”" silk shawl covered with: pale bine em- the corner of the house and to the foot: broidered flowers stitches. and a long pale blue fringe, 1., the crystals,” Tubby by. explained, quite -unnecessarily, Debo g.uor in small "It’s to match red: fuce, “Fhere, right at the very {most immediately he was down the Deborah was beautiful, sweet—snsone to earth. “TT avr . ” bottom, of course, Now. this is from .gyive. an - S or thet— —w ‘How do you do, Burch,” Grand- aris e, and had given the group on the can see that —and that: you—well, that: Yowd be! 4)... Qontinned on Poge ¢ ; verandah one glance. His car stopped, sou were interested in her. Bryn interrupted him. “And what perfect of the steps. He walked up them slow did you say. about Sally and Madeline? his face unsmiling, bis eyes on Tub- ‘Whatever you said seems to have heen Tubby put his cup down on the adequate. Grandmother gave me al und stood buttoning his coat. auh's s band caressed the heavy silk. yryn stood waiting. * tonight. She got me into her sitting ‘I love it,” she told him gently. “Is "Ah, er—. I hope you' can give me room and quizzed me, She suggested Dont Know, Anything ‘About That way of (Loving. Boe te lope t . i with yout u sinall sample of my wares,- ‘\there anything about not accepting in-| a few minutes of your time,” Tubby delientely that Deborah's -feelings | mt nerviously. “It’s a- worthy cause might be quite distinetly burt at the, . I am one whose sole iuter-.thought that there had been other giris . dn.in my life who had meant so much to; noble sir. est is‘in, the welfare of the nution. other words, I should like to. leave me”... ., . There wus 2 long silence. _ “Bryn,” Tubbby. broke in on him, ‘did Grandinother actually expect you ‘just a small sample, sir, in forty-seven ' volumes. Nine dollars duwn and nine.‘ dollars This magnificent work***" » aims the moment you met oud***well, “Is it a book on etiquette?” Bryn have everything all settled inquired coldly. ; you? | Btiquette? Oh, indesd, nothing of “She hoped we would, yes.” the kind. Although of course it con;, ‘Tubhy gulped. (gins chapters on etiquette; How tp stand her point of: view,” * he :went*on, to serve. That is _the sort. of _ thing, ebild. you mean?" “There should be something about ' itg, nad ‘ns aneonscious ‘ about***well invitations,” Bryn answered. - “Tgn't about ***that is, about***" You needn't flounder.” ‘She--doesu’'t know | vitations before they are offered? Or. wy remarks nbont. getting. bonnced. ont of places where you haven't been usk- tively ignorant. ad?" ‘nnything. “Reyn,” Deborah whispered, frantic, little ‘ideas, - but she doesn’t know. using his name almost for the first - 4g tina, mean it. ‘Pell her.” lsupposed to. have for her prospective . But Bryn, Went. across; to, her, Are, ‘had been inenlea ted” in her: bad half hour, after Deborah was gone. u mouth til-death do us part. and Deborah to fall into ench others: between : “T dom't quite under } #*tv bathe the baby, and what.soup “Here's Debornh***she's nothing but a “anything. She's - ags—as fresh o8 a spring morn- ‘T*am’ aware™ of your meaning. In: Vietortan | times | figirl was. suppdsed to be pure ‘and ev Deborah doesn’t know ae She mey have a few funny It one of, the present. Alfficulties. She: “Bryn, Grandinother thinks. You js terrified. Weil, a Victorian girl Was Bryn turned toward Grandmother. husband : ‘only. ‘such: feelings:as- respect, She was, leaning, ‘back on cher ‘pillows ‘ind admiration and perhaps a gentle pale as death, her hond: at -her heart. ‘Vaftection. Deborah. was supposed to She thought, Tubby was. an impostor. have those for, Stuart Graham, They |. So Griind Tubby had a suggestion. “Why not get Sally and Madeline up sig yh Taal Ac i | Cyn ~My J Ji PRE-EMPTIONS Yr acant. unreserved, surveyed Crown landa may de pre-empted by British @ibjects over 18. years. of age, and OF aliens on declaring intention ta become British subjects, conditional upon resi- dence, occupation and improvement, Pull” information concerning Pre-emp- tions is given in Bulletin No, i, Land ‘Beries, “How to Pre-empt Land.” copies of Which: canbe obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Vice . 7 toria, B.C.: Burean of Provincta! Informa- Records will be granted covering only fand multable for. agrictiltural -purposce ‘(within reasonable distance of road, schaol and marketing taciilties and_which 1s not timberland. Le, carrying, over 5,000 board . feat’ per acre gast of the Coast’ Rance and ~ $000 feat. per’ acre west, of that Range. Applications far pre-emntions are ta be . addressed the -Land Commissioner . of ‘the: Land Hecording ‘Division in: which. the Jand apolied for is altungtad. :on printed forma obtalnéd from the’ “‘Commissioner.: . y|