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-r ~ Sallv was typSwritsr IN London.
ll.r ~ork Was hard: her boarding house
HamIn-ranith was q place well cal
l,r"d - dspr--s the spirit. The story
Tvs that Jack Traill was not sensitive.
10" was not indeed; he had great assur-
Hr pursued Sally on her way homo
.. 200 ~urk On he roof of the omnibus.
..-r,. he had impudsntly thrust himself
,,rp her company. he said to her; u had
-,..u You through the window. working
i.r more than quarter of an hour down
.u the street. waiting till you Got aack %
DO Then | was going Ia ask yOu to come
sd have tea with dinner 10 you'd
.,.-i wanted some one IN talk to:
~fs gong back TO my rooms. When
10y r. empty a mans rooms can be ths
MOST goddess Here very properly
sally halted the omnibus and got down.
though IL had not yet reached Hammer
smith
Rat she Was not deeply offended. She
dd not persist in snubbing him. How
rolid she' He was surely q dazzling
,r''atur~ She knew that before she
suggested that she might find the par
'.'.aoiN N0@NaAAsotV N9H
really no more than ciincher. IL was.
however. a good strong one. IL made
ch''erng reading IL ran: John Hewitt
Trail harrister-at-law and Journalist.
Porn iS7i; son Of late Sir William Hewitt
Trsill G. b. Of Apsley Manor, near High
Wycombe, Bucks, Address: Regent
street Clubs; National Liberal and
savage RecreatioOs Riding. shooting.
&allw n.naalA h..
and latticed windows Of Apsley Manor
and could smell the sweet peas and the
climbing roses. AZ the end oG the charm
rng dinner in the little French restaurant
m Soho she was quite ready TO 90 to the
Regent street rooms 70 have coffee She
thought IL would be charming She was
not afraid to 90. She told him why
She knew he was a gentleman She
trusted him implicitly This frankly
declared confidence set him thinking
There is says the story. mo more dis
srrninS pAs~c in the everlasting duel
between a man and q woman than this
apreal whether 10 he made Intentionally
or no, the appeal 90 his honor a. a gen.
-leman Up Aiea the RlittarinG rapIer
from his hand. he il weapoale~s and
AZ her mercy. For every man. even
more .-pscisIIy when he /. not one would
ha Thought a gentleman
While they were AZ coffee In Trails
rooms they heard a noise a, ,h. back
Train went into his bedroom and throw
,,p th., window. n. called sally. A
prizeHSht was about to come OF ia the
ward nalow. Tucker and Morrison were
presently AZ il. They were stripped TO
'he waist. Their muscular Dodie-
GRAINED in the lantern light. Sally be-
held the shocking punishment Of Morri-
son IN the last round The unsparinR
rs-rative saws AT this point: Morrison
dropped slowly and slowly backward.
me staggering step AZ a time. his defence
Iess arms held Terbly like broken straws
teiore mis- face. Prom "A osa to chin, from
chm to neck and from the neck in a apread-
rrR stream acruNs has chest the blood
black in thar light triclled like molten
clue In hts eyes she could see that
Questioning glare. the ssupid. s-nseleas
Raye Of a man drank with exhaustion
And still the blows fell to the murmurinE
accompaniment Of thai gloatinG crowd
fell steadily. shortly. tappingly, like
the beating Of a stick upon dead meat =
II was great fun for Trail. who was j'Ist
saving in explanation Of the work OI the
triumphant Tucker BY JOvs. he's got
MN nowi" when Sally tainted.
sally had further strunR emotional
sHp@rience after shs had recovered from
her swoon and had a little brandy Trail
lighted his pipe finally and explained
Why she could not come again. He said
I've seen marriage with other men and
I've seen quite enough Of IL. Ny sister
IA often tried TO persuade me to marry
drop my life. adopt the social entity and
worship the god Of respectability. I'd
sooner put a rope round my neck and
sving from the nearest lamp post. And
- YOU see I'm no DC company for you
~ dinner she had called him gentle
nan. He was not the sort of gentlernan
enc had in mind. though he had beer
'rylnE all the evening TO live up to the
d"A He told her thai ne saad; Take
ny advice and have no truck With me
WIN that ne blew out the candies. ac-
o"mpanied her downsa@irs. put her 10
A Uab and sent her horne.