Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-31
Rather. Been very decent TO me-"
And you will be seeing him after
YOU are married and all that" she

ana you VIII De seeing MIN after
you are married and all that?" she
asked me.
Il shall until he goes back to Can
ada, 1 expect" Hid l.. You know
he's only on the Great Intermediate
pro. tem.; got some good billet to
n into at home later. Why
shouldn't l be pally with him after I'm
married? ?" l asked In turn.
The BluHer said nothing for a. sec
ond. Then she laughed, quite in
PhylHs's lisht-hearted, ~far-tetched
way. Perhaps because Of the great
gulf that some, Of you will fix between
i. Do look" she broke of going
to the window again. there's my
youngest born trying to row both oars
with his StuTnpy arnS-''
We stood up by the window and
watched the party in the swaying
dinghy under the rain on that pool.
1t was all white circles of rain-drops
and scariet-and- yellow-and-bl black re-
Elections from the boat. The smaller
though making no way at alls As /
laughed, that same funny feeling am
back to mo for an instant, I'm going
to have a good time here, some day;
one Of the red letter days.
But I hardly noticed it. What I
was still wondering warmly all this
talk about Slim Grantham? - -.
Another very rum thing was, what
Phyllis's sister said. to me just before
Putting her head up in that battered
felt thing; in rather the way Phyllis
does in her Vogue-ish hats, The Blur
ter looked straight at me and said:
Look here. l like you. Generally l
can't like men much; though"-she
waved q long arm towards her two
lads-"I can love them sometimes.
But l like you. Will you come here
again."
oh! I hope TO-" said 1, a BIT taken
aback. II hope / shall be allowed to
see a lot Of you all. when we're mar
ried. II hope Phyllis will bring me
again. quite soon."
The Blurter said, "Tes. But suppos-
Ing you don't como with Philip"
/ started q bit. She wound UP in
that odd underlined way. Even sup
posing Phil doesn't bring you. come
again"
50 l suppose ia passed" with my
third stster.tn-law-to-be as well as
with the others. But Of all the thinge
that had been said by "the world" her
last words puzzled me most.
What did she mean?
That's enough for what the family
said.
Then Of course ia congratulation.
from outside people; Sims note, and
best wishes" and all that from chaps
In the office. Letters. too, from one
or two fellows in my Squadron who'd
known Tim Harrison and me; Ia
written to tell them the news.
There was n other person to
! uyh0p9 7 fSA4es0ft TIA t1.& a. -.-kl- S..-.s
a. Il was engaged to be married. /
knew he'd be glad; even though I'd
only met him once in my life.
This was that Doctor sWeatherby;
man who'd picked me up ana carried
me oil in his car, to have q. talk at his
place. n evening. It was when /
wa at such a desperate loose end that
II a hardly believe myself, now. /
hadn't seen him since. but I'd never
forgotten him !. or things he'd
nld to me then.
! was no end bucked to get. an an
swer to my news, q note from him
asking me to 60 round to Wimple
street. and smoke a pipe with him the
next evening or the one after that.
Round l went. and jolly glad I was
to see him again. and to plank myself
down into that big armchair in his
smoking-room: Lord, owhat centuries
the lonelieat besgar in london MOI
q, Rirl-friend to his an ready Ia
"pick up'. a, stranger out az the street
Nov here / was an .ensaeed Il
did come home Is me then how daahed
lucky / was. I fancy I realised It Al
that moment more than ! had since
I'd been engaged. i
The Doctor was jolly sympathetic;
he didn't cross-ezamine ne a BIZ. and
wei r found mNnelf . n4WaefnN ~ ~p