Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1930, Page 42

17 o %1’& RC Sherriff and Vernon Bartlett i, 5 (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER V. ITH t!'lell'“‘hblcw'l‘eul Me;.l ked 3 sand- mmhu and bathing things, Madge, Dennis and Jimmy set out for C&;ewuan Glen, village they stopped to gos- Nt mTh&:re hl‘:enot been much news rday, because it had been bank liday, but it was reported that Ger- many had invaded Luxembourg, and that the British fleet had been mo- bilized. Mrs. Tucker, looking mysterious and dignified, as befitted so_important 8 government servant as 8 village post- mistress, spoke darkly of territorials being ordered to guard railway bridges and the docks at Southampton. what they would, the three of them rth day of August muxon for a picnic. So that when Madge said, “A penny for your thoughts,” she was not altogether sur- when Dennis answered bluntly t he was thinking about the possi- ty of war. ‘”é){e pedaled s little harder to get en a level with him, and they rode fogether through the long lane between the Scotch firs. Jimmy, who was musing upon Hobbs' wonderful score of 266 at the Oval yesterday, did not trou- Ble to catch them up. The war, if it eame, would not affect him very much. Besides, it wouldn't come. Those things 't wonder i it would make any dif- .::!ce to you at Sandhurst?” Madge sald, as the personal side of all these alarmist newspaper reports struck her for the first time. Mightn't they want cers?” n?'r;ul?emw." agreed Dennis. “But it will only affect the fellows who've been there for some time. Every one says the war couldn’t last more than three months. The ns couldn’t stick more than that. it won't make any mvnwm kto my passing out. Just my ck.” “nnn'z imagine what it would be can you?” asked the girl. “Would as bad 8s the Boer war?” bigger armies and where he liked. except that h objected that he was an 80. ust be pretty awful on the Con- Madge went on. “You saw ‘what the papers said about the crowds Holland and France and Belgium. Nancle Parsons her mother went fo the Tyrol—that's in Germany, isn't I'm glad we were satisfied with Alum Green and the Forest and Chew- fon Glen. My aunt! Isn't it a lovely day? It ought to be ripping bathing.” It was only after lunch, when they were lying on the sand waiting for an hour to elapse before they went in the ‘water again, that Madge thought any more of the trouble on the Continent. Andllglln nhs thg:ltght( oue from : purely mal point of -view. Denn ‘would m-wflmy important in his Sandhurst uniform. People might think he was really going off to fight. ©Of course, he couldn't be really—that ‘would upset everything too much. But ft was rather excit to imagine that was being sent to the war and ust come to say “good-by.” She tell him bravely to go, and then d fiing herself on ‘bed and and all her friends would be sym- , _and use 80 s friend of hers was fighting the Iay on her back, closed her eyes t to keep out the red glare of the thro her eyelids, and tried to it would be like if Dennis . ‘There had once been a the nursery called “The Ab- Beggar”—a solider dressed with.a bandage round his is would look rather nice bandage round his head, and hair standing up _above it. he got killed? There was always a chance that wounded. . e 328 i i i il g ) 5 ybody in the Dennis. She stretched out her hand until she touched his arm. It was comforting to know that he was there, and that it had been galloping on unchecked. Be- sides, she realized with a laugh of re- llef how could he be sent to fight? ‘There wouldn’t be any fighting for the army, for Great Britain was an island. they'd send him to one of forts on the Isle of Wight she had visited on Summer excursions, and would be able to run over quite often to see him. The Germans would Do | De: Sl g COPYRIONT 1930 OV FRIDERICK A STONES COMMANY. never be able to land in England, and even if they got close enough to the coast to shell it, Dennis would be quite safe in one of those forts. So that was all right! “Time to bathe again,” she declared. T'm sure it's time' to bathe.” . ‘They sat up to look at the watch, and found that only three-quarters of an hour had passed since the meal. So for a while they all threw stones at & plece of wood that had been washed up by the sea. And Madge was 8o pleased that she hit as often 8s Dennis and once more than Jimmy that she forgot all about war. But later, when they had dressed behind their respective bushes, -and were eating doughnuts for their tea, nnis became gloomy, as he did some- times, and they rods home through the woods, each feeling in some strange way that this picnic marked the end of an epoch. Jimmy did not mind if 4 did, because a war would be fear- fully exciting, but Dennis had both more imagination and more knowledge. Dr. Raleigh had talked at breakfast about the general fall of prices on Stock Exchange, and the grobcbully of an increase in the cost of living. Some rich families round Alum Green were filling their motor cars with stores of | food from Bournemouth or Southamp- ton, in case there were a shortage later on. Dr. Raleigh had refused to take any steps of that sort, but he was obviously very worried. When Jimmy had said that he wished he were old enough to fight, his father had replied very bluntly: “Damned good job you're not.” And the doctor seldom sald “damn” in front of the children. “Just supposing I do get hurried through Sandhurst into the army,” Dennis said to himself, as they pedaied up the last hall towards home: “how could I be Sure'I shouldn't get in a funk?” Fleld days at Tidworth, or near the public schools camp at Farn- 'tHE EVE been good fun, but it ferent when the other side . _How strange it 1/ Feviriing_wounded re woun e, and being looked ho was terribly proud 'd done so well. Per- V. C.? There was always just a tiny chance. He'd do his best to make her pleased with him. It was bad luck about her being a girl, because she wouldn't be able” to do anything at all. But easily the best girl he'd ever met—not only because she was game for anything and played cricket jolly well, but, still more, be- cause he could be such pals with her, and talk about his aims and ambitions without feeling awkward. And there wasn't any doubt that she was pretty. Sometimes at school the sight of the sun shining on Jimmy's fair hair, a 5lxnt of amusement in his eyes, or an inflection of his voice, would remind one so vividly of Madge’s hair or eyes or voice that it almost hurt. When they got home they found Dr. Raleigh standing half-way up the little gravel drive that ran between rhodo- dendron bushes from the gate to the front door. He was so absorbed in the evening paper that he did not hear them until they were almost level with him, and the smile of welcome had to struggle against an unusual expression of gravity. “There’ll be war night,” he told them. any chance of the Germans climbing down now.” “Hurrah!” shouted Jimmy Raleigh. “We'll jolly well make them sorry for themselves, the blighters!” “Let’s hoist ,the Union Jack,” sug- gested Madge, and ran off to the lum- ber room at the top of the house to look for it. . Dennis Stanhope stayed with Dr. Raleigh, reading the paper over his shoulder. It was announced that Ger- many had declared war on France and Belgilum. He felt an immense ex- hilaration—the feeling that had in- duced Jimmy to cheer—and, at the same time, an uneasiness, as though he were just about to set out for his first day at a new school. “I wonder if they won't want us to g0 up to Sandhurst at once,” he sug- gested, with just a touch of self-im- portance, since he was clearly s0 much UNDERWOOD = DEVILED HAM . ¥ ‘What most people call indigestion is usually excess acid in the stomach. The food has soured. The instant remedy is an alkali which meutralizes acids. But don’t use crude helps. Use what your doctor would advise. The best help is Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. For the 50 years since its invention it has remained standard with physicians. You will find noth- ing else so quick in its effect, so harmless, so_efficient. One tasteless spoonful in water neutralizes many times its volume in acid. The results are immediate, with no bad after-effects. 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There's old Mrs. Wylis, at Bracken Lodge, for ellm¥h—lhe'a been going on at me for half an hour about the treachery and villainy ©f all Germans, because she once had words with a Swiss waiter at Cannes. It's madness. The whole world’s going mad.” ‘When Dernis went back to Torquay he found that his father took a dif- ferent view, as he explained one aftes noon when the two of them sat on big rock in Anstey's Cove. That morn- ing firing had been heard out to sea, and Torquay had been thrilled by rumors that a German submarine had been sunk. All along the caast were exciting reports of people who had been signaling from the cliffs at night, or of German spies who, in the uniforms of British majors, had “turned out the guard,” and asked them leading ques- tions about the military formations in the neighborhood. It had been decided to delete Wagner's music from the principal concert programs, and Mr. Stanhope, his jovial face red and angry, supported this step as essential if they were going to beat the Germans. He felt that any other attitude was definite- ly unpatriotic, and he would have nothing to do with an old neighbor who had been a naturalized British subject for 34 years, but who still spoke with a thick, guttural accent, and whose name was Hirschfeld. jce SY EA “Why did he buy s house almost on the of the cliff, that's what I want to know?” he demanded. Andmltn: Dennis lum:llodt no an- swer, the clergyman went on: “It's so that he can signal to these submarines,” he declared. If he had not so obviously been well over military age, he would have ac- companied Dennis when he was drafted overseas in June, 1915. Once in the front line he would have bayoneted every German he saw with that cheerful energy which he put into all his (or God’s) actions. But, having to stay at home, he worked strenuously on every patriotic committee that he could find. One day he was leading a party across Dartmoor in search of sphagnum moss for medical dressing; another saw him active as a special constable; on yet another he was organizing the local appeals committee, or addressing a re- cruiting meeting, or arranging a tea party for wounded soldiers, or running a press campaign for the internment of yet more people with a thin strain of German blood in their veins. By the end of the war he had quite a col- lection of certificates, signed by various notabilities, to declare that he had helped his King and country, and he had lost much of his weight and most of his joviality in his conscientious efforts not to infringe any one of the food regulations and injunctions which were drafted for the hapless civilian, (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) Great Britain has 6,017 chain grocery stores. 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