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ts «â€"~ "Of course I know I‘m early, Nora. +( HER NERVES _ BETTER NOW Her fingers moved from old silâ€" ver to pparly Lowestoft "We‘ve both good names and nothing else, haven‘t we? Never mind; I‘m used to being poor. Onlyâ€"oh, Vikingâ€"I hate to sell this house!" "Perfectly good one, Viking. 1 love it," smiled the bearer. "Otherâ€" wise, I‘m Hugh Graham McLane, called Graham," "I saw the sign," McLane anâ€" swered. "Since when? It mustn‘t "Because you look it," Rosalie stated, high and dry above reason. ‘"Besides, you hadn‘t a name; I had to baptize you." be a being as wonderful, as desirâ€" able as the other.‘ That all the ages should have combined tofgive. each to the other, It has happened beâ€" fore, that amazement. It will hapâ€" pen again. Millions of times, please "Why Viking?" inquired Graham McLane, rattling a priceless teaâ€" It was five; the Viking was ar rived these three minutes; the two were staring at each other in dumb amazement, each, that there could mon toast. The Chinese smoky tea â€"there‘s some left? And the Lowesâ€" toft cups, I‘ll do the tea table, and you‘ll do the food." ‘"No more did I," agreed Rosalie. "But now, Nora, rush. He‘s due at five. Hot cheese sandwiches. Cinna "Tttt!" clucked Nora; that was reprebensible of him. "Lawyering‘s slow. I will say you‘ve been cute, though. I never suspicioned." Nora fell into the biggest chair of all, and produced a superâ€"sigh. "I suppose that‘s the end," she set forth, ‘"The Lord knows best," she added on consideration. "Likely," agreed Rosalie flippantâ€" antly. "But it‘s not any end; it‘s a beginning. Of heaven," she explainâ€" "Lordâ€"aâ€"mussy!" fluttered Nors. "To what?" Dou‘t you suppose I can tell time?" This was hours later. "But Nora, yOW lovely Nora, with the pretty #ray curisâ€"" She stopped, laughâ€" Ing, sobbing. An emotional person, ‘Prin a Viking,". elucidated Rosâ€" <Traffic Squad | A Love Story . Andrews {lll’!hhyw!hin-n The Viking was firm. "Nothing last sound she heard was a deap scould persuade me. You see," ex.|throated, "God biess you, miss!" plained the Viking, to his own aa { fr0m & doten of them. tonishment, . "the owner goes with| ‘The loveltest party 1 ever went #!" and turned red. to," she throw at her husband. "I‘m The ownérâ€"" the jeweled tady |Roing to have gne every year!" slowly saw ligh} "Ob!" She throw [ "Yyowre not!" «Her fingers wore mmmmn.%n.h-mm-mmh.n' :-m*h;:udmh- this your very Inst wedding, % # the "ongine purred, and kfesed her| Rosaile Cary McLane," stated the ‘‘Ten minutes ago." "Tenâ€" Couldn‘t you let me have It," wheedied Jewels. "Til pay a huge pricet" The Viking was firm. "Nothing sould persuade me. You see," exrâ€" plained the Viking, to his own a» tonishment, . "the owner goes with "But the tea, the tea. And the cheese things; Nora will ery1" The Viking stuffed dutifully, folâ€" lowing which an adjournment was taken to the sign, with a hatchet A.mo’rucludn.nhrueor turned into the drive. "A ~eustomer," breathed Rosalie; the Viking held his hatchet. ‘‘This place for saie?t" inquired a stout jeweled person edgerly. "It is not," stated the Viking. "Just sold to me." "Oh!" moaned Mrs. Jewels. "I‘ve wanted it two years. It‘s the loveâ€" lfest place 1 know. When was it money; how he had elected to come| ROS@!i¢, slippirtg in her bridal to Wilchester, far from family |**"8Y _ Across . the _ sunâ€"spotted, "pull," and make his place, going in shadowy old street, saw first in the with Sam Marston, his associate|©DU"¢) the phalanx of blue backs editor on their school Law Review [ 494 the group of little golden heads â€"Sam Marston, as poor as poverty in their midst.. And then she saw except for brains and character. nothing at all but the tall man How they were making good; standing in the chancel near Doc how, otherwise, a hfige income lay tor Harmon, who had baptized her. idle in banks, and, finally, how | "P°A"!Y beloved, we are gathered 1h.lndtulg and barreifuis and, oh, together here in the sight of God, vodles, were to be taken out to be and in the face of this companyâ€"" done with as Rosalie wished. The Traffic Squad rose as one Rosalie listened, her hands held } ®2"â€" Surely never was any religi fast, while the smoky tea got cold.|°U% S°rYice As simple and solemn When he stopped, she sighed like and A:utiful as the marriage cereâ€" Nora. > mony of the Episcopalâ€" Church. In "Fairy taie," she pronounced.|* dream, as weddings go for brides, Can‘t (be so. Richkâ€"I‘ll be crazy the lovely words were read'over‘ about 1t. Will I? I always thought|N°" 200 "I Rosalie Fairfax" had I would. Butâ€"â€"" She looked up. taken "thee, Hugh Graham, for my "It sounds silly, butâ€"couldn‘t we| We4d4¢d busband," and somehow she keep it dark a while? I‘m so thrifty; [AD4 her Viking, not what might be I could keep house on nothing so called bowing acquaintances three marvelously, I hate to waste me." | W°°k8 before, were "man and wife." "We don‘t want to sell this Man and wife, standing in the house ?" old, beloved, shabby, drawingâ€"room "Oht" of Cary Court, laughing and happy, "Yesâ€"yes, we do. You‘ll sell it [Y° 4= to the bride, that emotional Ill buy it. Give it to you for a |D°TSOD,. father tearful and choked wedding present!" § also. While â€" those _ tremendous "Oh!" gasped Rosalie. Ngures in blue coats surged about "Let‘s hack down the rotten sign them every manâ€"jack feeling the now," honor of being the especial, almost "But the tea, the tea. And the[{M® ON‘Y, guests at a wedding in cheese things; Nora will eryt" the splendid old house. And Nora The Viking stuffed dutifully, folâ€" bustled busily about with food, and lowing which an adjournment was }°%"%4 the entire situation. taken to the sign, with a hatchet It was Michae! Donegan, head of As they reached it, a large car|th*.Traffic Squad, who stood for.n turned intoâ€"the drive. and made a little spetch which left "A eustomer," breathed Rosalie; |the bride incapacitated, for tears; the Viking held his hatchet. a speech which the groom answer How they were making good; how, otherwise, a huge income lay idle in banks, and, finally, how handfuls and barreifuis and, oh, vodles, were to be taken out to be done with as Rosalie wished. Rosalie listened, her hands held fast, while the smoky tea got cold. When he stopped, she sighed like to _have his way smoothed with gold; how, after college,â€" he had gone into law school, where characâ€" ter and brains counted, not money, and had come out a winner, not by money; how he had elected to come to Wilchester, far from family "pull," and make his place, going in with Sam Marston, his associate editor on their school Law Review â€"Sam Marston, as poor as poverty except for brains and character. The Viking wert into facts: How the disgustingly rich McLanes of California were his people. Not father and mother, for they were dead, but cousins; and he as rich as they. How it had got on his nerves The Viking â€" steadied â€" himself. "Honestly," he stated, "there‘s noâ€" thing like you anywhere. But, I mean, blessed, we‘re going to have money to burn!" "Huh?" inquired Rosalie. "Where‘ll we get it?" M Clear eyes questioned, ahkd then she laughed. "Joke?" And went on, with a small gasp. "I‘ll be...rich.. to have"â€"the voice faded offâ€" "you!" ‘"You don‘t seem to understand," spoke the Viking, slowly, distinetly, "that you‘re due to be‘a rich young woman." " ‘Lovely,‘ â€" am /I?" An â€" interval during which words were pleonas tic. Then, "It‘s you who don‘t unâ€" derstand, darling." "Don‘t I?" wondered Rosalie. "What don‘t I?" "I‘m darned if he was right!" She turned a brown glance. "But you don‘t seem â€" to :« understand, lovely!" ‘The old endearingness, stifled since®her mother died, apâ€" peared to fit thl‘ tall person. ~"Oh, are we?" answered the Vikâ€" ing vaguely. "But, you see,".he conâ€" sidered, "I‘d rather live in this wl ngv it. I heard you say it. The day on the trolley when that Buxby man said I‘d have to sell it. edding present!" - "Oh!" gasped Rosalie. "Let‘s hack down the rotten "You don‘t understand." She then yet"was she nsed to this toâ€" o t es ever alle saw, looking back as she and the Viking drove away, the Squad, massed in a battalion on the old gailery among the pillars, And the rice at the two racing dow; the shallowâ€"stepped old stairway, amidst luaghter in rich volcea: it turned her weeping into sinful pride. It was the Traffic Squad dren, and the big men stooped to these, off and on, to help them up steps, to lift them to a seat, to do anything, everything, much in the way, but always thanked by a smile from the mother of "Sullivan‘s kids." ~ _ _"Aw, gee! Don‘t you know nothâ€" in‘?" threw back the better informâ€" ed. "It‘s Miss Rosalie Cary‘s weddin‘. She‘s in with the cops. She ¢‘n park her car on the chief‘s steps if she wants to!" Led by Michael Donegan, head of the Traffic Squad, a mighty mass of manhood tramped into the little: dim Episcopal church and took their places, ~crossing themselves flrst.‘ Michael Donegan had managed an absence, and Wilchester â€" streets were slenderly policed indeed for two ho@rs that afternéon. Close to Donegan, before the main blue army, came a small woman dressed in black, and a group of blond chil "What the cops goin‘ to church for?" inquired one or two or three of four Arabs. age gathered, at the array which steppedâ€"out of a line of automoâ€" bilesâ€"provided ‘by the groomâ€"and poured in all together, in serried blue ranks. On a June afternoon, â€" when shadows of the elms swung leisurely across the shifting sun spots of the wide road of Carytown, there was a surprising little wedding at the gray small church where brides had come across the way these two hunâ€" dred years, Small boys of the vill "Hurry up." His head n\l at an angle. "You‘re breaking my neck." "Our wedding. There‘s nobody we care much to ask.> Why not, for our sakes, for dear old Sullivan‘s sake, haveâ€"" â€""Who? Let go my ear, darling; I want to lodk at you. Who?" look at me till 1 ‘tell you: Boql:u" it you should Ibok unintelligent, we could never be happy in our married | and broke down into laughter. "You ‘"The â€"Traffic Squad!" shot out Dietrichâ€"At St. Mary‘s Hospital, } Kitchener, Sept. 17, to Mr. and )’ Mrs. Robert Dietrich of Kitch _ _ ener, a daughter. Pollardâ€"At Kitchener, Sept. 15, to _ _Mr. and Mrs, H. W. Poliard, a _ Uaughter. Dahmerâ€"At Kitchener, Sept. 16, to * Mr and Mrs. Edward H. Dahmer, Fackouryâ€"Mogamâ€"At Detroit, Sept. 14, Miss Heten Hogan of Detroit * and Mr, Edward Packoury. Snyderâ€"Davisâ€"~ At Kitohener, Sept 16, Urins G. Snyder to Miss Bea trice M. Davis, by Rev. H. M Beddendortâ€"Lampinkâ€"At Kitchener Bept. 16, John. Beddendort and Miss Margaret Lampink, a daughter. Dommanâ€"At Kitchener, Sept. 16, 0 Mr. and Mrs. Milton Domman, a daughter. Mildred May Waiters The death took place at the St. Mary‘s Hospital, Kitchener, â€" on Wednesday, Sept. 16, of Mildred May, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Waiter, follvwing an attack of pneumonia. The reâ€" mains were taken to Erindale for interment on Saturday. SIR ADAM‘S HOME ’ OFFERED FOR SALE . BY EXECUTORS ‘ The executors of the estate of the late Sir Adam Beck have offered for sale his residence on Richmond Street, North London, known as "Headley." Some time ago Philip Pocock, close personal friend of Sir Adam, suggested that the place should be bought and preserved as a memorial .to the Hydro Knight, but as yet nothing has been done along this line. It is understood that the property can be purchased for $75,000. It was originally the home of the late Ellis W. Hyman, father of Hon. C. S. Hyman of Lonâ€" BLINDFOLDED, HE DRIVES \ MoTOR THROUGH STREETS Francois, 30â€"yearold native of Marseilles, drove blindfolded through large erowds on Peterboro streets without an accident on Sept. 15th. His eyes were padded and strapped with adhesive tape by Police Inspector James Reid, who‘ accompanied him in the car. He[ was temporarily blinded in the | World War. He says he depends j upon impressions received tmml those in the car to guide him. The laying of concrete on the Lancaster St. Bridgeport road will be started this week. The paveâ€" ment will be 32 feet in width with the street railway track laid in the centre of the road. NC AeqCueouuy, oeplk 10, . uL THQ 'Mnool!(r.ndlyl.lllllm. |After a trip to Moptreal, Ottewa,|} Bus Driver: "Ohb, yes, of course y 4 4 P we, * } cleaned and put on. and other points, Mr, and Mrs. Moâ€"|I can; but, you see I‘ve got to stay | 114 King Wost, ,l MAMan GCANTCLC¢aL 42 araala nc o 2 solede Mae LC CHF _ Motorists will. be glad to know 'that the eounty road work program for 1925 is well advanced and will be completed shortly. The biggesi stretch of road work this year was the extension of the pavement on t he Baden â€" Philipsburg â€" Wellestey road which was finished a short time ago. A small strip at each end, however, was left over nntlli next year in order to allow the road to settle. Accordlng. to Supt. Lichti the only work which still reâ€" mains to be done is the remmclngl and grading at Linwood, Wallenâ€" stein and the Kress Hill at Preston. The paving of the Hespeler road will be completed this week. Zing. After a short honeymoon to Niagara Falls, the young couple will reside in Kitchener, " ceremony in the presence of only the immediate relatives and friends. The bridesmaid â€"was Miss Frieda ROADS NEAR COMPLETION STATES SUPT. LICHTH Waterloo, when their daughter, Erna Hilda, was united in marriage to Albert John Zinn, of Kitchener. on. Wednesday, ~ Sept. 16, at: the Millian will reside in Kitchener; . | with the bus." ladowPhlllmburn-Wollodox Roul ‘Now Finished and Other Work ~. Progressing Satisfactorily. Zinn â€" Klose hn \ Only Claimed Good Time A pretty wedding ‘was solemnized |_ "Hall0,. Tom! Where hare MARRIAGES Liniment in the ARTHUR FO8TER ...... B. E. BECHTEL and W. R. BAIGKER®,...... \ «€. A. BOENM INBUR, f All Kinds of MASSEYâ€"HARRIS IMPLEMENTS Second hand binders and mowers and binder twin for sale by Established 1863 ASSETS OVER $1,400,000 GoveEernmEent deposit s100,006 dflm and Directors PROF. D. J. 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