Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-07
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Julia Parry. aged IS, typist in a Lon
don office. becomes engaged to her en-
ployer. Mr.. Lewis. an old irieru Of the
She has no other men friends in
London. While on her way to work, she
OFTEN passes a young q Jack Smith
Dy> name. and though they do not meet.
other.
women. in London. but his buddy"
slim, seems to know many girls, and he
X Jack to a dancing class. There
Jack meets Phyllis Carteret, whom Slim
sets a 'promotion Il t The railway aHVut; Office nice
for good judgment in handling ten thou
sand troops who arrive unexpectedly.
he becomes engaged to Phyllis.
dancing academy. where she has a con-
fdential ak with a young woman she
Julia believes that David, who is IS,
is too elderly for her, 80 she breaks her
engagement. n
Julia,s "Grannie." while on a shopping
by Slim Grant am. Later he goes to tea
at her home and meets Julia.
Slim goes often to see Julia, and be-
gins to think of marrying her. Jack and
Phyllis get on each others nerves.
Slim takes Jack Smith to a Sunday
night affair.". where the latter naeete
CHAPTER XXVI.-Continued.
For n second I fancy I may have
asked myself. "Where've l seer her
.before?" Before the second passed, 1
knew.
She was hat girl Al the beginning
of this story Of mine. The girl I used
to pass in the street, the girl I couldn't
set to know, the girl I'd spoken to.
the girl who'd turned me down. Yes.
No mistake. She was the girl Id
written that MAJ love-letter to; that
I'd burnt.
my little Lady,"
There she stood before me. the only
girl I'd ever wanted in my life!
Next to hearing thai my pal Inn
had gone West. it was the shock Of my
at that house.
You remember the "Dug-Oout"; the
little ground-floor flat Of the. board
ing-house near Baker street. Place
where they kept the piano in the bed
room and showed the piles Of dinner
plates u onto the corridor floor, and
had the whole show choc-a-bloc with
old furniture and young people. The
place where 1.-The one fellow In Lon
don without a girl to give him a smile
had been taken so long ago by Slim
Grantham. IT,,
Extraordinary, that it should be
here that / must meet her again. Now
when everything was so totally diff
ferent. Me, changed into quite a dit
ferent sort Of fellow, and she
She was different. toe. Before. I'd
only seen her with her hat on in the
street. Now saw all her hair az
I stood looking at It without even hav-
ing said good-evening to my hostess.
or1 60 she NO MT f,,ox ~No<fv.
she vas lovely.
AS I still stood gaping at her
(thank goodness, I'd come In so quiet
ly that the mob hadn't noticed mel,
1t all started to soak in, 20 to speak.
Back, as IL it were all only yester-
day, back came those old meetings ev-
cry morning for weeks; back came
the image Of her that I'd taken to my
lonely digs q night, back came my
know her, and my hatred Of the way
these things had to happen or general
ly did happen. Then. more distinctly
than all, came that fatal morning
when I'd taken my courage by the
scruff Of the neck and had spoken to
her. And my black despair. Ara
the letter, miles long, that I'd written
to her that evening n that
10 UuTuL II DeCuuSe 1u IHOu8uL
that to write all that Dream island
rot to a girl whose name I didn't even
know was too idiotic. Now
the feeling took me that that hadn't
b4entrot. It was onIy.eyerything else
that had 5bsett 1diotic. The other had
been the right thing. BAck 1t
crowded upon me In one, 40 II nothing
had happened in between. didn't
know her name even yet. That didn't
matter; nothing Hattered except being
able to look At her. long and hard
once again.
What woke me from my dream was
the voice Of my hostess close to my
ear. 'Ah, here you are. And
how is Mr.. Stranger Smith? Where's
Phyllis? It's such ages since i've seen
her. What? Haven't you
brought her with your" -
pulled myself together, jerkily /
managed to explain about my fiancee
and now she sent her love and was
90 awfully sorry she couldn't come.
"oh, yes! what a pity" exclaimed
little Mrs. Lou, standing there backed
BY that crowd Of other people. Cant
ten you now who they all were or
which Of 2sem I'd seen before. "son"