Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 24

. wan i love with Exelsn Prothero marriad Jim o2 library In the’ war. = Her friend e Evin: | happened a Wwho was best man The owd, the noise, the same dax both men got a ¢ i | music faded. They wera gone e Mhort Hime lager pot wore v were i e mame’ &l heterment | was no crowd: there wax no soun. Bonned widaw s weeds, hut there wa e ol LAty vere he uection whisnered among her D A IR TRt i et s, | great solitude and a ere Jim:or his hodein, ak " News 10 et | And dn this solitude et Tith mever s word from the time ey | ANd 1 this SotUile Seee’ Teat miveine, ‘one Of Them turme un. | She WA g0 nes ) 3 onet"® | was her pain., and his loneliness her Bur which one Tt “came L Mo Manning. | joneliness Lavdon. looking down was as paje as her pear um. a ' crashed into louder dise ! brayed. moaned and stopped ased Evelyn raised her eves moment to Lavdon's face, o ago Barbara had done the same with a difference. aw that she The music s, shrieked He 1a dumb Hullo, Monkey © kname “known onis fo T intimates a1, Manning Ivelyn's eves, very dark, very blue had the look of a child who 1 wwakéned suddenly out of a dream they an innocent trouhle and bewilde! Without sveaking she dr hand from hi walked slowly thr archway and pa Evelyn came the wettest wettest, ¢ 1t took I!mv. R Rovnat i fae o T the nam < the hame of ad not seen Lavdon since the t the Luxe, and she had be at some pains to avoid who was | She desy be left alon tions will not always Even Uncle Hen Evelyn opened the door of her with a latchkey, and was aware of Ponson lurking & - “Some one to see you, ma‘am. “Who is it™ It must have b a guilty con- scienee that bronght up a vision of nted time and to INSTALLMENT XVIIT Kindest rela t Laydon the next telling him really _frightfully | : get on with Bar he's the best in the ut the worst. 1 !"o very if he does all over (!\f\'\ t so mu H‘V matter said Ponson very tightly col scented and very much on her n't this a ripping on. when they were sitting fox fu said quite suddenly: the front of which was aln . el & jth hidden by a very larze pa Do you know I was at school with | hidden hy & very Jare paste ooy arrow. “How A0 you do? So pleased not to have missed you after a She delivered this after the manner age duchesses, head well up, hand raised, voice pitched for Ponson's ear Then, as the door shut, she let her- a chuckle. I'm so glad you've come. The woman that let me in had me frozen stiff—made up her mind I was after {the forks, I should think. The cheek —"|of her! | “Not but what you have to be care- |ful in London. Why, a lady I know very well—very nicely con too—weli, a Laydon was rather taken aback, fact which obviously delighted her. was. You needn't look so in.-| We've only met about| since, because 1 was out in vpt during the war, and I've only t come back to town. Yes, we were t school together. And 1 was the awful warning and she was the good example. \un know—just like a tract.” vou meant. hed. aheth, the one ‘I'm s said that the end 1 ex- was right. Do vou really want 1k discreetly about nothing at . and next | a silver t){\rl*lvnlnk spoon she set a good deal ~ : of store by, and a watch and three il L s off her dressing table. So I don't | “It would be duil—ditch-water dull, |blame any one for being careful.” But 11 it vou like. I can do it| ~Won't you sit down>" said Evelyn. heautifu Of “course,” she added.| _Thanks, dear, I will.” “I'd rather not. Indiscretion is really | Miss Palliser” procecded to the onlv thing that's the least bit in. herself comfortable by pushing teresting—isn’t 17" the large chairs nearer to the fire. She Quite suddenly she allowed a soft- | then sat down, crossed her Iy mexs 10 veil the lively mockery of her | veeding which hrou; velvet skirt rather e—and loosened her fu expect you wo she said with e “Well, dear, 1 \'\I]\b no idea that Laydon had proclaimed himself. | ; zoing 1o be indiscreet.” she | co) Vi do you just stand and ne: “You know you do. Why do you do |it hasn't turned my hair, which w, $t7 Why don't you just plunge in and bave been a pity, though I say it my- Jet vourself go self, for it's the best thing I've got left There was a long pause. Then he | me barring my teeth—and all my owr said too, though that doesn't go for so “I'm sorry 1 seem to—watch.” | much as it used to. heth's color rose brightly. | Onh, 1 should hate to comhe to t 1 didn't mean that at all. No, dye—or false teeth, e 1 didn't— . I—my tongue does ter of that." She showed an even went enipping. you know. 1 only'in the best professional manner. *Nic t——"" She tripped over her oWn aren’t they? My dentist says they re words and came to a standstill good for as long as I am The slest of ice which Lavdon felt|” “Did you want to tell me some between himself and all the world | thing?" said Evelyn thinned for a moment. Elizabeth's| Migs Palliser stopped smil warm color, her shaken voice, her real ' nodded vehemently touched him humanly. “That’s right,” she said. “I should he said, “please | piny | hag omething to tell you Please don't 16 extraordinary )id come out 1 st in the nick o ¥ how things ing and 1 don't mind think that I do.” “Yes, b ought t0.” said Eliza- sght to mind frightfully. You ought o ie pushed her fur right hack revealing some 3 folds of purple tulle All the mime, T don't know that ny for me. Fact is, 1 ca i my mind shout it b when you've been married as often n 1 have you get xort of used to it. But then, on the other hand, there's no doubt that ft free, you're free and if a gent temper and uses language, you can send him hin business, ‘which it len't so 5y to do if you've married x “What Pax h P [ drabbled e felt at once the impulse foward confidence and the complete jmpoxxi bility of giving way to it. An icy lone- liness that sheltered hehind indiffer- ence: the sense of irreparable loss. of al aloofness. the dreamlike ity of all the relationship over which 10 empty vears had passed— these were thinge not to be put into words. He 414 not resent Flizabeth's touch he even weicomed it. It was warm 8nd kind, and it was meant for him the Lavdon of to rd not for kome haif-remembered shadow of Jong ne music of the next dance ) out. racing violently from one disord 15 another vdon sood up and held out his ar passed baliroom face 1o fac You xee, dear ol hands’ to /41 nd it easier t tangled ir y well k. Well, | sald to my friend—you know, dear, the tieman 1 told about Wha happens,” 1 said., “I'm bound 1o 5 Laydon know.' &0 I cume righ 1itise wramistonin, 4 S NERT SEUO T T e TN A of tea¥ing NOBKeNse: | joxt much tme oot ommy Tommy | 3 yexterd fright you, and I'm thout stoppink 1l sutvered a ) Thin crarh. | T whrnr is new developmest mizht be “Don't look Nke that” wald Miss Pa) “IUs nothin hrt 'm the one to ook, it I mande up 1 wonlan't et oy it Aldn't give me o o1l these . liver, won't you tell me Uing you aw fast ax 1 can, me see—perhape 1'd Letter What d'you sith her, but e beginning wer vemoved s and hung St over the ,. ok af A yourve got It here he pulled at the | by round her neck. ©Wel) ere going 10 begin ot the be Valliser Jaug s 4 sad 1o my friend, Wt of Keeping w dot of siuif when i e ot i the a good old read wng we of e were fro ¥4 forgosien all abmil we feck a it soppy, | Fhe praduced o grayieh hnndloen e sl dabbed ber eyen, e s per o ere any actual Bt the last, 1 ¢ that et e by ddeand wt ds at 1 told you whout Jetter and there THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO! other letters and papers that I'd ne\er[ bothered to rend.” Evelyn said, “Oh! ’ Miss Palliscr heaved a sigh. “Don’t you be in such a hurry i ba shocked,” she “Bothered wasn't the right word. They were let. | from other women, and papers And when I saw 1 Il.h( it was just one of Ted's {divtiest tricks to have them sent off o me: and I wouldw't read them. See, | dear . 1 see. 1 beg vour pardon.” inted,” sald Miss Palliser, with | rful affability, “Well, 1 took them tand I thought T'd burn them. And whilst as ing them over, a | photezraph V i and when I Dicked it 1 o nice Jittle girl | with vingle look written on tl : was | from vour loving wife, 1llen 1701 What d've think of that SLden’t know —I'm afraid (wontinued in Tomorrow's Star.) SHIPPING NEW Arrivals at and Sa New York From ARRIVED YESTERDAY DUE TODAY (mpton Mard N | D | Miina DUE THURSDAY. 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