Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-11

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them. now. And the early closing
day III this place which you gentle
men are always forgetting. Now
IL I'd have known this morning
that you was expecting company in
dinner. (and ladies'. too maybe
would have been able to manage
something. but as 1t is, why"
Sergeant" said ex-Captain Lave
rock very quietly. ''see what you
can do. viii you? : I'm sure
you'll knock up something all
the laugh that had caused it to be
said of him, In a previous existence,
that the men would do anything
for that youngster. Dinner at
eight-or better say a quarter past.
II ."
very good, sir" from Parkin re-
signed.
Five minutes later Arches other
stable companions arrived home to
find him securing a trestle table
that had been lugged out OF the
pavilion and set on a smooth piece
of turf near the ratings. Captain
Smith meanwhile was preparing the
table decorations by examining into
jamjars bouquets composed Of cow
slips. bluebells. lilac, pansies and
southernwood, all tied up together
very tightly with string.
"Hul-lo. Whose birthdays this ?"
demanded the young man who
worked on the railway. Are you
expecting anybody over tonight,
Layeroek; -. BY 5 love; ~ Three rec
dinner. Who's going to COOKE"
"Who generally cooks?" retorted
Archie, without looking up FROM his
scrubbing. II told them it was pot
luck and that we'd have to give
them what we always have our
| Selves
They little dreaming what muck
that is" commented the young man
] who worked in the city. who is
the -er-principal lady this time
Laverock? l hope she's accustomed
to roughing it. Has she lived out
in the colonies or was she on farm
work during the war or that some
thing OF that sort? Because il
90"
Il don't know what she did during
the war" replied young Laverock
lightly. as he dropped the scrubbing-
| brush back into the bucket. She's
acting for the cinema now"
Cinema? Is she. by Jove?" All
three young men pricked up their
ears. where did you meet her.?
Who is she? Anybody ones ever
heard OFF,"
This was Arches moment. His
face showed more of q small school
boys exultation than the amuse-
ment of a grown-up man Zone says
this, forgetting the fact that there
is no such thing as "grown-up
NAM as he replied:
Her name Is Miss Lucy JOY"
| Sensation. Then incredulity
| CYou're rotting'). Then the buzz
Of comment.
Lucy Joy. Not the Lucy Joy?"
THE periscope girl?"
Good Lord. Laverock, you know
her?"
obviously. or shouldn't have in
vited her over with the whole of
her family should H." retorted
young Laverock. to whom all this
was even as honey from the honey
comb. Lucy JOY. The name was
as we'll known that spring as. say
! Delysia or the Lenglen. And
she was coming here, to this crazy
rubbish heap of n camp by the rail-
way line. at the invitation of him,
Archie Laverock. who was nobody in
particular.
Have you known her lnog, you
dark horse"
Not very. ="
why there's something about her
in today's London Mail. | read it
in the train coming down.
blurted out the young man from the
city. Look here-oh, no, it was in
sanother paper perhaps"
But Archie had swiftly caught the
magazine from him, and turned to
the gossiping column head
| WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW
| The very first paragraph ran.
what it is that takes the Admiral
down so often to a certain blue
bungaow in Surrey. and If his
daughters may shortly expect a bolt
from the blue?'
Followed by Whether Miss Lucy
JOY. although thing of beauty in
tends to remain a JOY very much
longer"
Awful rot they put in these
RAGS" grunted Laverock Carefully
folding the paper to stow 1t out of
sighD. Whats that. Parlin? Well
IL we haven't another tablecloth
we haven't. that's all. What's the
matter with clean boards"
His friends gazed upon this youth
The utter cheek of him. inviting
celebrity to this squalor.
Il suppose you're sure she's COM
ing?" suggested the young city man.
"One always hears that theatricals
80 Well, they vow they're coming
for the fun of 1t. and then fail to
matcrialiZe; the most unreliable
crowd on earth"
Archie glared at him over the
jampots of flowers. THE Joys
aren't exactly 'theatricals.' he ex-
planned stpliy Miss Joy has only
been going in for this since that
competition affair. or course she is
coming" this with added COM
posture because he himself felt far
from certain on this point. Suppose
she didn't come? Found it too late.
too much of drag to get back
from her film rehearsal?
May 1 ask" inquired the young
railway official, IF you've invited
Princess Mary also?"
Princess Mary would be an easier
proposition" murmured the young
city man. "Princesses are used to
being led round slums and shown
JOY! And this show OF ours
Chow, a la Lockhart, ="
The last word was to Captain
Smith. Mildly he inquired, And
where are the ladies supposed to
wash their hands. Laverock? In
your shower BATH
At o'clock the visitors arrived.
all four of them. 49,
To young Laverock there was only
one.
Here she rose. the star, radiant
as any of her photographs strewn
sill over the country! OF her attire
Archie (man-like) could only have