The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-01-14

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altered enough. Sweep, I'm disappoint.
ed in YOU Where's your beardg"
Il had IL of the other day, | always |
meant to-" he explained. before the
end OF the voyage | wasn't going TO |
land like a wild man OF the woods. |
YOU know"
Weren't you, | call IL mean"
Her scrutiny became severe. but |
softened again at the sight OF his |
clutched wide.awake and curiously
characterless, shapeless sur
You may well look" he cried. de
lighted that she should. They're
awful old duds. know. but you would
they came from"
I'm sorry TO interrupt" said
Blanche, laughing, but there's your
taxi ticking up twopence every quar-
ter OF an hour, and | can't let IL 20 on
without warning you. Where have you
come from"
He told her with a grin, was round
ly reprimanded for his extravaganza
but brazened IL out by giving the
smart young man sovereign before
her eyes, After that. she said he had
better come in before the neighbors
came out and mobbed him for mil
lionaire And he followed her indoors
and upstairs, into little new den
crowded with some OF the big old
| things he could remember in very
| different setting. But IL the room was
small IL had balcony that was hard
! ~ any smaller. on top of that unduly
| imposing porch: and out there. over
looking the fine grounds opposite, were
! basket chairs and table. hot with
! the Indian summer sun.
Il hope you are not shocked at my
| abode" said Blanche. I'm afraid !
can't help il If YOU are, It's just big
enough for Martha and me: you re-
member old Martha don't you? You'll
/ have TO come and see her but she'll
be horribly disappointed about your
| beard"
! Coming through the room. stopping
TO greet picture and "A bookcase (fill-
ing wall each) as old friends. GAIA.
let had deserted a photograph OF him
self with that appendage. lie had
threatened to take the beastly thing
away, and Blanche had told him he
had better not But II did not occur
to Cazalet that IL was the photograph
to which Hilton Toye had referred. or
that Toye must have been in this very
room 10 see II. In these few hours he
! h.H m N at
least In so far as IL associated Itself
with Blanche Macnair
The others all wanted me to live
near them" she continued. but as no
two of them are In the same county
IL would have meant caravan. Be
sides, | wasn't going to be transplant
ed at my age. Here one has every
body one ever knew, except those who
escape by emigrating. simply at ones
mercy on a bicycle There's more golf
and tennis than | can find time to
play: and | still keep the old boat in
the old boat.house at Littleford, be.
cause it hasn't let or sold yet I'm
sorry to say"
so | saw as passed said GAIA
let. THAT hit me hard"
The place being empty hits me
harder" rejoined the last OF the Mac
nairs It's going down in value every
day like all the other property about
here. except this sort Mind where you
throw that match. sweep ! don't
want you to set fire 10 my pampas.
grass: it's the only tree I've got!"
Cazalet laughed, she was making
him laugh quite often. But the pam
pas grass. like the rest Of the ride
ulous little garden in front. was OBJ
scured II not overhung by the balcony
on which they sat. And the subject
seemed one to change.
1T was simply glorious coming
down" he said Il wouldn't swap that
threequarters OF an hour for bale OF
wool You can't think how every NOR.
tai thing on the way appealed 10 me.
The only blot was a funeral at Barnes; /;
IL seemed such a sin 20 be buried on
a dag like this, and fellow like me
coming home 10 enjoy himself"
He had turned grave, but not grayer
than at the actual moment coming
down Indeed, he was simply coming
down again. for her benefit and his
own. without an ulterior trouble until
Blanche took him up with long face
OF her own.
We've had funeral here. | sup
, pose YOU know
Yes. | know"
Her chair creaked az she leaned for
ward with an enthusiastic solemnity
. that would have made her shrek II
she had seen herself. but II had no
such effect on CXzalet.
CTO BE Continued