Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-10
Copyngbt 1877 b. Sidney GoSins
Continued From Last Week
CHAPTER XVI
nWhere Is My pauahter7"

keep the job. She'll jump at It,"
Nothing doingI" said Billy sternly.
Aimee sighed. The hour was nearly
moor on the day following the Odyssey
of the crag pits. No news had beer
heard of Calamity Kate, who appeared
to have drifted out of history on the
Sphinx. A brief interval of peace had
settled upon J%ervaulx.
''Theren be a vacancy for a parlor-
maid an chauffeur" announced Billy
with decision. He was standing on the
gravel just outside the window. "All
the bother with the police is wiped off
the slate. It's only a fool that backs
his luck too far. And it's time to quit
the game and turn the lights out"
'"That means Aunt has got to know
who l am, inc who George is; and
and all the rest Of it."
There's no way out Of that, I'm
afraid"
81 know. But 1 do rather funk it,
Billy. The worst if it is poor old
George is in a tighter place than l
am"
"We1l have to see her through it."
'Don't you think" said Aimee, dis
tinctly worried, "that 1t would be best
If Georgina arranged to cut short her
visit and went homeland Amy Shocks
gave notice, or just cleared out. You
as well. Then we've could explain it
all by letter, or something. 1 think 1t
would look better that way"
Billy looked at her a little oddly.
81 am in a funk, Billy" said Aimee,
trembling slightly. II don't care for
myself, but it's awful to think of poor
George having the storm break on her.
She isn't built for it. 1 believe if the
thing isn't sprung on us suddenly, and
we manage it at the right time, we
we might get away with it."
Fright again." said Billy, "but l
shan't go. 1 shall stay and put it
through myself"
"Nor" said Aimee quickly. II won't
hear of that"
''You just leave it to me-" said Billy,
soothingly, there's another way. I'll
show you"
The whirr of a motor interrupted
him. A large automobile was ap-
preaching up the park road. Aimee
looked at it. Such an expression of
horror came over her features that
Billy was startled.
whats the matter?"
That's absolutely torn It'll" said
Aimee in strangled tones.
"Ehr"
'It's Dad!"
Aimee dived back into the room like
a rabbit retreating into its burrow.
The automobile swept up to the main
entrance; the Very Reverend Lord
Scroope descended.
as Lady Erythea in?" he said, al
most CURLY, to the butler. Announce
me at once, please. Lord Scroope."
Mr.. T%arbeaux showed him into the
empty drawing room. Lord Scroope
deposited his hat among a cluster Of
Dresden ornaments. His brow, usually
white and serene as alabaster, was
clouded. Lady Erythea entered ma
j~estically.
"Anthony J" she said.
Lord Scroope, emitting any greeting.
regarded her ixedly.
ST received your letter by last nights
post. Erythea, announcing Aimee's en-
qagement to Alexander. I borrowed
the bishops car, and I have been trav-
cling from Closeminsrer since seven
this morning"
Lady Erythea received the news with
a smile of approval.
'The silly child wished me to delay
announcing her betrothal. But that, OF
course, 1 could not consent to. | wrote
to you at once, Anthony. | commend
the energy you have shown In hasten
ing to congratulate them-and me. One
so seldom sees you in a hurry"
Lord Scroope deliberately placed a
pair Of gold-rimmed pince-nez on his
nose and stared at his sister-in-law.
"The news of this engagement" he
said earnestly, sis unwelcome to me.
Entirely unwelcome."
Lady Erythea stiffened in every limb.
Her ear-trumpet was presented In one
hand; with the other she raised her
~lorgnettes and directed them at Lord
Scroope. The two regarded each other
CLASSIFY.
Il do not understand you" said Lady
Erythea with frigidity. alexander is
a young man of unexceptionable char
acter and prospects. Jervaulx will be
his. The Scroope estate is entailed, and
I am sufficiently au fait with your af-
fairs to know that when your two sons
in the Service are provided for there
will be no o%verpowering fortune left
for Aimee. 1t appears that if there is
any complaint, it should come from
me-"
1.-THE financial aspect of the question