Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-09-17

Copyright by the Bobbs Merrill Company
She only knew she could have taken
his hand, but for very good reason
why she could not She had even to
guard against an equiyocslly sympa'
thetic voice or manner, as she asked,
How long did they remand him for?
Eight days"
We'll, then, you'll know the best or
the worst today week."
''Yes!' he said eagerly almost him
self again, But, whichever way 1t
goes, I'm afraid it means trouble for
me, Blanche; some time or other III
tell you why; but that's why want
this to be the week Of cur lives"
So he really meant what he had said
before The phrase had been no care
less misuse Of words; but neither,
after all, did it necessarily apply to
Mr. Toye. That was something. 1t
made il easier for Blanche not to ask
questions,
Cazalet had gone out on the bal
cony; now he called to her; and there
was no taxi, but smart open car,
waiting in the road, its brasses blazing
in the sun, an immaculate chauffeur
at the wheel.
Whose is that, Sweep"
Mine for the week I'm talking
about mean ours, if you'd only
buck up and get ready to come out!
A week doesn't last forever, you
know"
Blanche ran of to Martha, who
I fused and hindered her with the best
intentions 1t would have been diff
cult to say which was the more eX
cited of the two. But the OLD nurse
would waste time in perfectly fatuouS
"reminiscences of the very earliest ex
petitions in which Mr. Cazalet had
led and Blanche had followed and
what bonffy pair they had made
even then, etc Severely snubbed or
that subject, she took to peering a.
her mistress, once her BARN, with fur
tive eagerness and impatience; fol
Blanche, on her side, looked as though
she had something on her mind, and
indeed, had made one or two attempt!
to get it of. She had to force it ever
in the end.
There's Just one thing | want t
say before | go, Martha. You know
when Mr.. Toye called yesterday, wa
out?"
oh, Mr. Toye; yes, | remember
Miss Blanche"
Well | don't want you to say tina
he csma in and waited half an hou
in vain; in fact, not that he cam
in at all, or that you're even sure yo
saw him, unless, Of course, your
asked"
who should ask me, wonder?'
Well, don't know but there SEEM
to be little bad blood between Mr.
Toye and Mr.. Cazalet"
Martha looked for moment a
though she were about to weep, AM
then for another moment as though
she would die Of laughing. But
third moment she celebrated by maj
ing an utter fool of herself as sh
would have been told to her face b.
anybody but Blanche, whose yellow
hair was being disarranged by tn
very hands that had helped to impris
on it under that motor hat and veil.
"Oh, Blanche, is that all you hay
to tell me?' said Martha.
And then the week of their lives be
gan.
The weather was true to them, an
this was larger matter than 1t Nigh
have been. They were not maxim
love. They were mot out for that,
as Blanche herself actually told Ma
tina, with annihilating scorn, Whe
the old dear looked both knowing an
longing to-know at the end OF the mrs
days run They were out to EMO
themselves, and that seemed shocl
ing to Martha unless something wa
COlnluB vi IL. ou0 nav JuSb oSAA
enough to keep her conditional claus
to herself.
Yet If they were only out to EMO
themselves, in the way Miss Blanch
vowed and declared (more shame IL
herr, they certainly had done wonder
for start Martha could hard
credit all they said they had don
and as an embittered pedestrian thel
was nothing that she would put pas1
one of those nasty motors. 1t sal
very little for Mr.. Cazalet, by the wa
in Marthas private opinion, that
should take her Miss Blanche out
a car at all; if he had turned out
well as she had hoped, and meal
anything nice boat on the rive
would have been better for them bot
than all that tearing through the a
in cloud of smoky dust; it woul
also have been much less expensive
and far more the thing"
But, there, to see and hear the chill
after the first day! She looked {
bonny that for time Martha real
believed that Mr.. Cazalet had "sp
ken" and allowed herself to admin
him also as he drove off later with b