Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

indeed, had made one or two attempts
to get it off, She had to force it even
in the end.
There's just one thing l want to
say before l 60. Martha. You know
when Mr.. Toye called yesterday, was
out?'
"oh, Mr.. Toye: yes. remember,
Miss Blanche"
well, don't want you to say that
be came in and waited half an hour
in vain; in fact, net that he came
in at all or that you're even sure you
saw him. unless. Of course, you're
asked
who should ask me, wonder?"
well, don't know, but there seems
to be q little bad blood between Mr..
Toye and Mr.. Cazalet"
Martha looked for . moment Is
though she were about to weep, and
then for another moment as though
she would die Of laughing But a
third moment she celebrated by max.
ing an utter fool of herself, as she
would have been told to her face by
anybody but Blanche. whose yellow
hair was being disarranged by the
very hands that had helped to impris-
on it under that motor hat and veil.
"Oh. Blanche, is that all you have
to tell me?" said Martha.
And then the week Of their lives be-
gan.
The weather was true to them. and
this was larger matter than 1t might
have been. They we're not making
love. They were mot out for that"
as Blanche herself actually told Mar
tina, with annihtlating scorn, when
the old dear looked both knowing and.
longing-to-know at the end Of the first
days run. They were out to enjoy
themselves, and that seemed shock
ing to Martha unless something was
coming Of It," She had just sense
enough to keep her conditional clause
to herself.
Yet IL they were only out to enjoy
themselves, In the way Miss Blanche
vowed and declared (more shame for
her), they certainly had done wonders
for q start. Martha could hardly
credit all they said they had done.
and as an embittered pedestrian there
was nothing that she would put past
ono of :hcse nasty motors 1t said
very little for Mr.. Cazalet, by the way.
in Martha's private opinion, that he
should take her Miss Blanche out in
q car at all; II he had turned out as
well as she had hoped. and meant
anything q nice boat on the river
would have been better for them both
than all that tearing through the air
in cloud of smoky dust; it would
also have been much less expensive,
and far more the thing"
But, there. to see and hear the child
after the first day! She looked so
tonny that for q time Martha really
believed that Mr.. Cazalet had "spo-
KEN" and allowed herself to admire
him also as he drove OF later with his
wicked lamps alight. But Blanche
would only 60 on and on about her
day, the glories Of the Ripley road and
the grandeur Of Hindhead. She had
brought back heaps of heather and
lunches Of leaves just beginning to
turn: they were all ever the little
house before Cazalet had been gene
ten minutes But Blanche hadn't fer
gotten her poor old Martha; she was
not one to forget people. especially
when she loved and yet had to snub
them. Martha's portion was picture
postcards Of the Gibbet and other land
marks Of the day.
And II you're good" said Blanche.
you shall have some every day, and
an album to keep them In forever and
ever. And won't that be nice when
it's all over, and Mr.. Cazalet's gone
back to Australia"
Crueler anticlimax ) was never
planned, but Martha's face had
brought It on her; and now 1t re-
mained to make her see for herself
what an incomparably good time they
were having.
Above all was II delightful 70 feel
that their beloved car was waiting for
them outside, to whirl them where
they liked; for quite early in the
week land this was glaring agra
walton In Martha's eyes) Cazalet had
taken lodgings for himself and driver
in those very Nell Gwynne Cottages
where Hilton Toye had stayed before
him