Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-31

It's a funny thing you came back just
IN time to get that letter! Before
1t was delivered! There! Now you
know!".
He was purely amazed. He thought
n his Amusement was such that
characteristically, his nge left him
he thought, well, of all the
But she otherwise interpreted his
establishment. She thought she had
made an advantage and she pressed
II. Perhaps You know it was com
ing? :"
How on earth could 1 have known
1t was comins?"
She seemed to pause, to be consid-
er1ng. She might have told you.
You might have seen her."
He said, A it happens, l did see
her. Not three hours before 1 came
back" ~
She seemed disappointed. She said,
II know you did. We met Lord Ty-
bar"
And he thought Good lord! She
was trying to catch me-"
She went on, you v told me
you'd met them. Wasn't that funny?''
III you'd just think a little you'd
see there was nothing funny abou.
it. You found the letter so amazing
~ funny that, to tell you the truth,
Id had about enough Of the Tybars
And Nv had about enough Of Them
i daresay you have-with me.
Perhaps you'll tell me this-would
you have told me about the letter II
l hadn't g you get it."
He thought before he answered and
he answered out Of his thoughts. He
said slowly. Observation-Disclosures
would. I wouldn't. 1 wouldn't be-
cause I'd have known perfectly well
that you'd have thought funny"
No answer he could have made
could have more exRsperated her. Il
-don't-believe-1-would." Deiber-
alton! Something incomprehensfble ia
her going on in his mind, and as a re-
suit of it a statement that no one
on earth (she felt) but he would have
said boldly. Anyone else would have
said boldly. blusteringly, "Of course
would have told you about the let
ter" She would have liked that. She
would have disbelieved it and she
h disbelieved it. Or anyone efse
would have said furiously. mo, I'm
damned If I'd have shown you the let
ter" h would have liked that. II
would have affirmed her suspicious
that there was something in it," and
she wished her suspicious to be at
firmed. 1t would nave been some
thing definite. Something juaifiably
incentive Of anger, Of resentment, OF
Jealousy. Something she could un-
derstand.
She could not express her feelings
in words. She expressed them in
action. h o violently and left
the room. The whole Of her emotions
she put into the slam OF the door be-
hind her. The ornaments shivered.
A cup sprang OFF a bracket and
dashed itself to pieces on the floor.
CHAPTER Nv:
These events were on a. Monday.
On the following Thursday Mona came
to see him at his Office.
She stood Automatically she was
across the threshold and the door
closed behind her. She was smiling
as though she felt herself to be up
to some lark. "Hullo, Mako. Don't
you hate me for coming in here like
this?"
It's jolly surprising"
That's another way Of saying it.
Now If you'd said it was surprisingly
jolly! Well, shake hands, Mako.
and pretend you're glad
He laughed and put out his hand.
But she delayed response; she first
slipped of the gauntlets she was
wearing and then gave him her hand.
"There!" she said. S
'-There!" It was as though she had
now done something she much want
ed to do; as one says '"There!,' on at
last sitting down after much fatigue.
She tossed her gauntlets on to a
chair She walked past him towards
the window. You got my letter?'
Yes"
Her face was averted. Her voice
had not the bantering note with
which she had spoken al her entry.
You never answered It,"
Well. I'd Just seen you--just be-
fore I got it,"
5aGhA was looking ,out ofa.th1 WIN.