Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-08-27

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a. to the essential issue which alone
leaped to his mind.
Where did you meet the fellow
he Inquired, with the suitable admix
ture OF confidence and amusement
In the first instance at Engelberg.'
"Engelberg Where's that"
only one Of those places In Swift
xerland where everybody goes now
adays for what they call winter
sports
She WAS not even smiling at his ar.
rogant ignorance; she was merely ex'
planning one geographical point and
another OF general information A
close observer might have thought
her almost anxious not to Identify her.
self too closely with popular craze
Il dare say you mentioned it," said
Cazalet, but rather as though he was
wondering why she had not.
Il dare say | didn't! Everything
won't 30 into an annual letter. 1t was
the winter before last--l went out
with Betty and her husband"
And after that he took place
down here%
Yes. Then | met him on the river
the following summer. and found he'd
got rooms In one of the Nell Gwynne
Cottages II you call that q place.
Il see"
but there was no more to see, there
never had been much but now
Blanche was standing up and gazing
out OF the balcony into the belt OF
singing sunshine between the opposite
side OF the road and the invisible river
acres away.
Why shouldn't we 90 down to Lit
tleford and get out the boat II you're
really going TO make an afternoon OF
IL" she said But you simply must
see Martha first; and while she's max.
ing herself lit to be seen. you must
take something for the good of the
house. Ill bring 1t to you on a lordly
tray"
She brought him siphon, stoppered
bottle, silver biscuit box Of ancient
memories, and left him alone with
them some little time; for the young
mistress, like her old retainer in an.
other minute, was simply dying TO
make herself more presentabls Yet
when she had done SO, and came back
like snow, In shirt and skirt lust
home from the laundry, she saw that
be did not see the difference His de
souflhs eyes shone neither more nor
less, but he had also deyouke,i every
biscuit In the box. though he had he
gun by vowing that he had lunched in
own, and stuck to the fable still
Old Martha had known him all his
life but best at the period when he
ised to come to nursery tea al Little
ord She declared she would have
Known MIN anywhere as he was but
NE simply hadn't recognized him in
hat photograph with his beard
4 can see where it's been said
Martha, looking him In the lower TEN
'erate zone But I'm 80 glad you've
lad II on Mr. Cazalet"
There you are, Blanche" croWed
'azalet You said she'd be dssppoint-
d, but Marthas got better taste
IT isn't that. sir" said Martha ear
estly It's because the dreadful
nan who was seen running out OF the
rive, at your old home, he had
card! It's In all the notices about
i'm, and that's what's put me against
hem. and makes me glad you've had
ours of
Blanche turned to him with too ready
smile; but then she was really not
dch great age as she pretended and
be had never been In better spirits IN
er lie
You hear Sweep! | call 1t rather
lcky for YOU that you were"
But just then she saw his face. and
the things that mad been
laid about Henry Craven by the GAIA
cts friends, even ten years ago. whsf
'he really had been u girl.