The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-04

was oaken w~ainscoting. dark and grim.
There were massive and upholstered
rafters overhead. There was "A vast
cavern Of a fireplace with andirons,
Suits OF IN hung on the walls.
Lions holding shields %crouched on the
posts Of the great staircase. Lilies Of
France and the motto "Dominus De
fensor Domi' We're all about. In the
drawing room up above there was de-
partu;e from the idea of unity. There
was mixture. There WIS everything.
including Adam cabinets and Boz
khaia rugs and an Algerian lamp and
an early Victorian glass chandelier.
The guests at the house warming
grinned ~ they drank OF the cham
payne cup. Shivers ran up and down
Niola's back. She fell sick and Jevons
got a house in the country.
Matters there were only "A little bet
ter. JeNons relaxed at table. He
called the servants by jerking his
thumb over his shoulder. He sum
moned the butler by cracking his I'm
ger joints, or this last named per-
Torrance Furnival records: He did
I crescendo. for,issino, p,ostiss!mo.
NAldbsttp u 'tI ulItNp tNIbTssNlOIt
ie played on his knuckles with n vir-
;uosity OF which ! have never seen the
ike" II was too much for Viola.
She flung IA wild look round the room
as If she called on t~reacherous heav-
cnly powers 10 saw her. then rose and
very slowly. in silence and "A matchless
!ignity. she walked out, past me. pas,
Jimmy, past the returning butler and
Town the Passage n into the Tudor
hall." And how did Jimmy" her per-
forming husband. take the most sug-
gestive withdrawal? His surprise was
treat. Well. ] am bowed" he said,
with the emphasis on the am"
When the great war broke out
Icvons tried to go for a soldier. They
would not have him, He wac too old.
lis heart was not right, But he man
ged to go in his great "magpie" "a
1t was white and black before he had
painted gray ~ n Red Cross
vo' kcr, He did great work on the
Iolg!an battiet!clds, Generals and
olonels embraced him and drank his
'calth IN champagne in hotel dining
ooms, Viola. who had u motor ambu-
ancc of her own. looked through the
dining oum glass doors and saw what
4 hero he had Income.
It was In the town hall at Nellie that
levuns SAVED Niola's brother Reggie
he capt. ThesiEcr whom We have
mentioned and who had long despised
lis common and uncommon little
'rother-in-law The hall was on fire
rom "a German shell. Jimmy came
through the doors carrying "A wounded
'renchman. lie went IN again and
anne out with another Frenchman.
rho ground floor had begun to burn
,ehind him. He went in a third time
nd came NJ with Reggie Thesiger.
Veggie's arm was round Jimmy's
boulder and Jlmmy's arm was round
lcgG waist, W. half carried, half
Imported him" The reader can think
whether the proud Captain looked
Town on little Jevons after that. He
an think what the whole proud Thesi-
yer family thought OF Jevors, A Ger
nan shell took Off II OF the small
lero's hands that day. Never moro
ould be summon tho butler in the old
his life had been to win the love of the
Thesiger family, and now he had It,
In the cathedral close at Canterbury
hey gave him Rcggie's bedroom. The
hines kept him awake for a time, but
ne got used to them.
A first rate story. The reader win
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