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gesture Of sympathy impossible to resent
or ignore.
II say" he whispered, you've not been
run over, have your
Yes" said Hugo curtly.
CHAPTER K.

after day glded by, wiping out Of Hugo's /
nind the stains OF the past. filling it with /
he joys and interests OF the present He :
worked in Sarah Owbridge's garden, he
'ead many books, he played golf, and
shot IN the Forest Of Us. The VIENNA
)les. father and daughter. left him alone.
but he heard of them continually from
Burgess. Al night. over the FIRE, Burgess
would talk OF JOY, until Hugo began 10
believe that he knew her intimately. He
became more and more sensible that Bur
CESS was what he might have been.
Upon this account the young fellows art
less prattle had q personal significance
and interest
From the beginning it was made plain
that the nymph eluded her pursuer- She
seemed to. have tho instinct OF all shy
wild things in the forest. She fled before
tho licensee!
One fine day" said Hugo. you'll find
her sitting. and take a pot-shot at her"
u miss pot-shots, as you know" Bur
CESS replied dismally.
Cheer up! YouH bag her. And then.
I suppose, she'll be stuffed and set UP IN
O glass case IN ST. Johns Wood"
There lad been talk OF ST. Johns Wood.
Burgess knew Of @ tiny house IN Grove
End road. not too far from the Tube.
There they would DO as happy as larlLs..
~ lark in London looks a fOrlOrn bird,
said Hugo.
Would a fellow be justified in marry
Ing on eight hundred a year?''
Hawnr,Ee an faiiovv Tho rigrhf
sort can marry and be happy on pound
q week; the wrong sort, with million
year had better remain single
I don't believe she'll leave her father.
Selfish old man"
Burgess had begun 70 harp OF late upon
George Vennable's selfshness. Joy was
his slave. his willing slave
THAT makes q difference" said Hugo
judlcially. "She likes her hfe. IN a sense
that father Of hers has made a man Of
her. She has q mans delight in over
coming obstacles I should like 10 see
her face 70 face with a big emergency.
What a wife she would make for pio-
neeri I've met girls Ike her IN the Aus
tralian bush"
What a lot Of places you've visited.'
Yes"
Burgess spoke OF this 70 Joy.
Its as / told YOU he said next day.
Charters must have had money; and
perhaps he's lost it. he hlnted, you re-
member. OF diminished income. And he
won't accept your hospitality because he
can't return it,
'You believe that. EsmeY'
"Why not?"
He took out a license, no bought a
valuable setter from Uncle Giles keeper,
81. 4. a. al nHaHres
Tor a two-shilling golf ball Returning
our Hospitality would not be a very ex-
pensive business"
If he accepted your invitations he
would have 10 accept others. He's been
run over"
Perhaps he deserved ~"
Il don't believe that"
do you know the difference between a
goose and q swami
Il DO. when look at YOU"
I'm neither goose nor swan
Charters says you would make 5Dlen-
did wife Tor a pioneer"
"Oh, really"
TN going 20 be a pioneer. Joy
What else does Mr.. Charters say about
me?"
he would like to see you face 70 face
with a big emergency"
I'D like to see him face to face with q
Job Of work"
Go down to sarah's and lock at n,
garden"
1T exasperates me 10 see a man a!
strong as your Mr.. Charters wasting his
! life digging in other peoples gardens
/ Why doesn't he dig his -own?'
"Of course. l should Ike TO ask hin
/ that! II all comes back to what I SAID
at first He's been run over. and yol
ought to be very sorry for him"
/ He excites my curiosity-nothing else
/ It's odd you know so httle about him"
His beard is quite presentable now"
\ L hate men with beardsi" said Mis-
Joy.
Meantime. II Burgess knew little con
! ocrning Charters. Charters knew nearl.
all that there was TO know Of Burgess.
! Passing judgment on the boy-for as
boy Hugo regarded hiu-the loss an
gala from lack OF s public school educa
tioa were plainly visible He had besl
we'll named Esme-a name common .
either sex-for IN him were fused IN
masculine and feminine. He had q wo
mans sonsibility something Of wo
raars vanity (Which is so different al
though not greater than that OF a mani
and much of a woman's capacity for en-
crossing herself in her own occupations
Doubtless ct Eton or Harrow this femi
zine bloom would have been rubbed away
Hugo did not like him the less becaus
10 was absorbed In himself his profes
sion, and his love affair. Moreover, ther
wos dramatic interest In the conflict be
t-gecn the inadjustsble claims OF love an
! business. Love. for the moment. mo
nopolized the young fellows attention
And Il was first love, the genuine pas
sion, which stiTs the pulses OF the mos
hardened asholder.
Sarah Owbri6go had a word TO sa
about this. Hugo and she were no'
srcat friends-gosslps, perhaps, exprosse
The relation better
Its case" said the widow ''bu
whether or no Miss Joy cares tu'peno
about him. is what 1 lie awake night
and ask myself. A handsoner coupl
I've never seen"
Would Miss Vennabls leave he
:ather2'
Il don't know as she would. Mayh
not. Ia like to see 'er talOin' up with on
O. the landed gentry. Shed make rcr
duchess, she would-manage a dukeior
and the duke into the bargain"
You're a masterful woman, Mrs. ov
bridge"
"Ah! never knOwed 1t till was tive
nnd-thirty."
Realty
mot till six years after married poI
Owbridge. lie was one O. them TALL biz
talk-you-down fellers. Sang bass in III
choir. he did. Weighed nigh on TO fiftee
stun, too Wei, he'd habits didn't lik,
but I'd dassen't say a word. him beir
, such mountain OF a man. an me lit
bigger than a mouse IN them days. or
Of Is tricks was to pull of his mudd
boots and leave 'em in my nice clea
Kitchen That used TO make me bilel Il
done It one night Just after I'd spent II
afternoon a-scrubbin' the floor When I