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The Vengeance of
Henry JarrOnan
By ROY VICKERS

their peace.
Involuntarily she jerked her hand
away. As II she had struck him Stran.
ack drew back.
"Why, Nadia"
Then he bit back his hurt, struggling
"Haye l. offended you in any way,
But I must have! You've changed.
Please let's talk It out. Mysteries are
30 beastly-"
Nadia's whole soul cried a bitter
agreement, but al she could say. was:
Cant we leave the Hillmead Ques.
tion for q bit. Lite" She
floundered and then seized on the last
words she should have used. "It's q
lovely place, but the price is really
rather Overwhelming. isn't 1T"
The moment she had said Il she
realized her fatal blunder. Stranack
started and sti6ened and the youth Aed
from his face.
"Oh!" gasped Nadia; panic stricken,
'it isn't that-you mustn't think-'
She choked and stopped.
II quite see your point" said Stran!
ack, quiet y. ''It Is large sum for
you-to pay"
Nadia's hands clinched to the reins.
Somehow, without delay, she must put
herself right in his eyes lie deadly
weed this assumption Of his must b.
torn up and flung away or It would
poison the very air. But how.-.how?
The price, in itself, doesn't mat.
ter" she tried, desperately. .! don't
thing. it too high. It's just that. as
there's no hurry, we might wait little
1t was quite useless. Her eyes. plead.
ing with his, saw in them only the
likes to spend her own money In her
own way, in her own time. His next
remark confirmed Il.
II should like to remind you that
when you first broached the idea Of q
house in the country pointed out at
once that It would be costly business
and that 1t would come entirely on your
sh0ulders-an unfair, and, in many
ways. an unsatisfactory state Of sf.
fairs"
Strsnsck Is Cut to Quick
Nadia could not answer. She turned
her face away and let the tears run
down her cheeks. She had wounded him
to the quick. And, oh, the irony Of the
situation! He thought she was re.
minding him--vulgar.y and super6u-
ously reminding him--that the money
was hers, not his. And all the time
she was hiding from him the fact that
It was not hers, but another's.
They rode on, and It seemed to hel
that on either side the trees were laugh.
That night was powdered with stars
From the terrace Of the Manor Hous,
Nadia looked up at them and her sou
drank of their cold majesty. From tn,
garden Of Gloucester House Nell squint
ed aloft and envied them for being "ah
Prowling unhappily about the Dou'
cester lawns, Mel! revisualised the las
few days. At first the space and dig
nifty Of the house, the unobtrusive ef'
fciency Of the house stan, the leis
foundly. Then she had grown restless
missed her opportunities. She gave
for instance, no balls.
Then there were no footmen. Raw
son, the butler, was certainly respect
full enough, but he carried no lap dol
about on cushions, he wore no red nlusl
and white silk stockings, and he ha'
hCVCE OCCu AuV"h W run VuI Will
stirrup cup when Lord Gloucester Sc
off for his morning trot in the Row
Nell, shifting, superciliously. had sug
gested to Lady Gloucester that sh
should "sack i'm and get some one will
bit more class abaht i'm"
''O' course" Nell had further re-
from revue that had shocked her t.
tho Aon<ho - hoo hoiuO Stfk'u mt ~
say dad an me won't live different thar
as Lady Gloucester obviously didn't
L" e amt stayed ere, as 'e?"
"Oh, yes, he has," Lady Gloucester
seized her opportunity. He likes Il
here. I think he would like home rur
quite on these lines"
Nell had stiaed a groan and re-
treated into the garden.
Some sixty miles away, Nadia, wan
dering in the summer darkness. wa!
so experiencing an agony of disap.
pointment. She had promised Lady
Gloucester to keep the secret from VIII
fred until Mr.. Jarroman's return, ani
she had done It 80 half -heartedly tina,
here she was, alone in q garden mad'
for lovers, while Wilfred smoked q
solitary cigar in the house. True. hil
suspicious were wide Of the truth. True
she could not say even now how other
wise she could have acted. Yet sh,
laid her aching head against the inarbl,
pedestal Of q nymph and confessed t
failure.
A step. a voice a. wrfred saw th'
golden glimmer Of her dress.
"You look like a little bit Of sun
shine that forgot to 60 home with tht
rest" And his arms round her tolt
her he was thrusting every thought from
him save the thought that she wa'
beautiful and young, and that he adoret
her.
A week later they returned to Lon
don and established themselves In the
house that Jarroman had given-his
daughter.
Again and again in the days that fol.
owed Nadia told herself that that dan.
gerous moment at Swallowsbath hat
done no lasting harm. Wilfred's man.
ner to her was no whit the less trustful
and IL 1t was the less affectionate that
was certainly because he had already
been sucked into the maelstrOm Of minol
political activities that await new
VI p. who intends to do more thar
take tea on the terrace among his ad'
miring relatives.
The social side of his activities, ir
which she cou'd help him, was yet Il
come. For the present he was con
cerned with routine and Office work
He would give her brief, digested &C.
counts Of his activities over meals
leaving her with a vague impression
that be was forming one of q younl
party that would specialize IN housing
Now and again he would mention thu
nama Of Carrondalo u hrillinnt ,roilns