The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-27

Canada and across the Rockies to
And the grip" The sheer was
evanescent but comprehended all I'M
known women.
Mason shut his lips and said moth
ing, wisely or unwisely-only the girl
could decide that and probably she
would decide wrong-but any way
he left her"
Imagining everything and certain
OF nothing, | suppose"
Gale nodded
THE usual problem soluble only
in time. He meant to make a way for
her somehow in British Columbia
and then ask her to come out"
And did the chivalry and circum-
stances you mentioned meet Prince
Charming in Plymouth and prevent
his little plan?"
mot exactly in Plymouth, but in
the western counties. He arrived
quite early in the morning at Plym-
outh and found that his boat did
not sail till late the next day. He
looked about him on the platform
for something to do and saw one of
the big screens of eolored photos
tempts the idle"
II know them-I always want to
count the have been there's against
the haven't been On the Great
Western the have bcen's' generally
win"
"Well-is Newquay a have been'?"
North coast of Cornwall. No
been near it but never through it.
Did Mason go there?"
ayes. he left all his luggage at the
cloak room at Plymouth and started
off for Newquay. The girl had often
talked to hin, about It. She had
hood and SO, 1over-like, he went to
some place redolent with memory of
her"
Simpson paused half way in light
ing a cigar; Gale. with his massive
brow and rough-hewn face, did not
suggest emotional sympathics.
It's great place" continued
Gale. ain an evil. moment after he
had been there an hour or two he
hired a motor car. The roads are
good. Hills like the legs of stork."
Simpson smiled as he watched his
guest gradually rearrange the salt
like places on map. 1t was all so
uncons cious. He was an actor play
ing what he described. Simpson had
heard one man who had been on
jury say, "He can use words like
paints" He began to grasp his I'M
premeditatcd power.
"See here" said Gale, "this glass
is Ncwquay--ten miles off down this
crease in the cloth is this salt cellar.
That's the busting market town of
ST. Column Major. Here where 1
put this knife across the crease is a
cross road about two miles out of
81 s-~t,
way from St. Column to Newquay
and you come to the sea at Porth-
turn to the left-that's the important
place and you come down across the
Trevemper Road" Again the thought
of the ten-strokc artist came to
Simpsons mind. He had listened to
so many men describe places with a
wealth of detail that left him mossi-
ly engulfed; but here-one glass
one sale cellar added to an existing
crease and the thing was as plain
as day,
"Wcll, then, Mason took a car and
went for long drive and landed up
evitably to the Red Lion Inn for
late lunch of pasties and Cornish
cream. There was only one occupant
of the coffee. roon1-a lady. She lift
ed sher head as he entered and he
recognized an old friend"
Luck in loneliness-even for
Romeo"
That's what he thought. He was
delighted. He had not seen her since
Fhcr marriage. AS girl in London
he had known her well-danced with
her, dined with her, asked her to the
Temple flower show, sent her
G~~u
"Some girls are as recurrent as boone
rangs."
Gale hated the omniscient cynicism of
an undergraduate from a grown man and
deemed that II Simpson ever married. his
wife would ind her self-respect worn
out before her trousseau.
''They talked over bygone days and she
had still the Same sort OF gypsy beauty
as of old. but her manner had changed.
Instead Of the strong, clear-eyed tnde-
seemed nervous and agitated-not sure of
herself. He drew bow at venture and
asked her where her husband was-and
then the nood-gates burst"
Another pearl in a wrong shell? We
seem to be mixing METAPHOR"
Gale smiled.
VERY much SO. She was craving to
talk about herself. He let her"
Simpsons sigh was heavy with reminis-
cence.
Is know the type selfish little bel
fry claiming monopoly Of sound. What
was her grief"
The old. old story. She was misunde--
stood and unappreciated: her husband
had no sympathy with the artistic tenn
permanent They had been married for
two years and had travelled While they
were abroad she had been apparently
perfectly happy Now they had come
and settled down in the country and dis
| Illusion was complete"
| "She loved excitement and called It =
husband. Did she cleave to Mason as q
I new found affinity"
! Gale shook his head.
, NO Nothing SO sudden and dramatic
as that. 1t seems there was an affinity
| already found waiting for her at PIyrr-
I outh and the train which Mason was
to take to Newquey at $50 for Plymouth
was to pick her up at St Column Read
and bear her to her lovers arms
| Gale,leaned back in his chair and looked
at his host
. THE usual elements OF the ordinary