The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-06-29

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into sound Inconsistencies.
She reused finally very much re-
freshed for the midday halt for rest
n tidin, which they passed at one
or the conventional bungalows, In
nothing particularly unlike its fellows
unless 1t were that they enjoyed. be-
fore tifin, the gorgeous luxury OF
plenty of clean water, cooled In por-
Gus earthen jars. Amber, over
whelmed by the discovery of this
abundance, promptly went to the ex-
IRENE of calling in the khansamah to
sluice him down with jar after, and
ie!t like himself for the first time In
FIVE days when, shaved and dressed,
he returned TO the common living
room of the resthouse.
The girl kept him waiting but a 1T
tie while. Lacking the attentions OF
I'm syah. she had probably been un-
able to battle so extensively as he,
but eventually she appeared in an I'M
measurably moro happy state OF body
and mind, calling up to him the SIM
ile, stronger than any other, OF a tall.
fair lily after a morning shower. And
she was in Il bewitching humor, n
that ~ingenuously enough succeeded
in entangling him more thoroughly
than eve before in the web OF her
destinations. Over An execrable cur
~ of strfngy TOW and Questionable
rice, eked out with tea and timed
delicacies Of their own. their chatter.
at the beginning sufficiently gay and
inconsequent. drifted by imper-
Ceptible and unsupported gradations
p%erilously close TO the shoals OF In
timacy. And subsequently, when they
had packed themselves back into the
narrow tong seat and again were be-
Ing bounced and juggled breathlessly
over shocking roads, the exchange OF
condolences continued with undated
interest.
For all the faint upon her pedi-
gree, she proved herself TO Amber at
heart a simple. lonely Englishwoman
"a stranger in a sullen and suspi-
cious land, desiring nothing better
than to return to the England she had
seen and learned to love, the England
OF ample lawns, Of box-hedges, and
lanes, OF travelled highways, pave
ments and gaslights. of shops and
theaters, OF home and family ties .
But India she knew. 81 sometimes
fancy" she told him with the con-
scious lar III that deprecates a o n
5000 -.a,1.AtttiA go At ~,,,t 1n xyn
lived here in some past incarnation"
She paused, but he did not speak. do
you believe in reincarnation2"
Again h had no answer for her,
though temporarily he saw the day
light as darkness. IT'S hard to live
here for long and resist belief In 1t.
But as a matter of fact | seem
to understand these people better
thar they're understood by most Of
my people. Don't you think It curl
Gus? Perhaps it's merely intuition"
That's the birthright Of your SEX"
he said. rousing. "On the other hand.
you have to romember that your fa-
tNer Is one OF a family that for gen.
erations has served the Empire. And
your mother?'
she, too, came of IN Anglo-Indian
family. Indeed. thew met and courted
here. though they we're married in
England SO you think my
insight into native character a sort
Of birthright-a sense inhertted?"
"perbans-sometbina Of the sort
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Then, said Amber you kno"
something ms hlBhhe7S tAe 4'eIoy
himself would give bis ears to bo
sure or.
! kho" that; bat 90
And That feeI}ng l8-'
NOT IoFe' MI. Anne
very mNcl 10 tNe contrary