Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-06

sought his mother. gathering up thl
pink chaos OF her needlework frou
| the grass. It's so nice that M
child should get on we'll with peopIsR
who are really somebody. sort al
| when her work has to bring her into
contact with all sorts of impossiblak
mem"
Young Laverock secretly thoughsR
| he rather preferred Arthur SeymourEf
OF the motor bike. and Sydney os}5
the camera, to the Admiral and his
| friends. n
Men Of that age certainly alwaysv
do makea pet of Lucy" Aunas&
began, collecting cushions.
Mummie added. Il don't know how
ii is" Her puzzled infantile ga2s
turned toward the figure, now grace!F
fully limbed, OF the young man lenv
among the empty glasses. He him,
self had declined a peg, when
was girl / don't think it wOulfH
have amused me to dance with QUITE
such-I mean men of such seniort
ranks. It's good thing 1t does
amuse the child. They're able to do
so much for her, of course. and o.
give her Gas she says) such woasy
derful time. But" she heSitatetY
as if before saying something dar-
ing, Il don't feel l should ever have
looked at the Admiral and his set
when l was nineteen; would yoa
Madgie?"
Mrs. Harrison said, Il wouldn't
look at them now" IL
For this burst OF indiscrctlon shs
Immediately biushed con, oughtn'tE
to have said that! didn't mean
that--"), but it caused instantly to
light up the two boyish faces repreS
SEEMING the generation deserted,
Archie Laverock laughed aloud. :
The MILDLY chuckled. "Splendidf
Auntie, And what n judge HereS
to ourselves, Laverock!" He pushed;
n trimming sparkling glass toward
the Rover. "Wilt imbihe?' ID
When Archie Laverock drank that
toast. blithcly tossed off. ITO our.
selves," did he know what ii would {
come to mean? Was it already ths1
challenge of one generation un9A
another? "a
Probably not yeti wl
For the next two days tho young
mans life was full indeed of otherI
things: the comparative merits u
the little Standard and the Singet z
cars between which those clients in
Surrey were hesitating-a committed
to which he was summoned by th&e
governor at his headquartCrs-a
particularly tiresome complicaton
with Il new firm over n matter ot
repairs. Further, on the Saturday
afternoon young Laverock was con-
strained to skate over TO some God'si
forsaken spot outside Nottingham TO
interview new client who lad
written. These preoccupatlons.(
are but lightly touched upon in thisJ
10 ltnNnF
heavily busy. Definitely removed
too, from any feminine element, cycG
In his thoughts.
On Sunday chat day or rcso ms,
thoughts wandered back again to the,y
subject of the family at the Blue1
Bungalow, Archie discovered thabl
subconsciously, his mind had made
itself up that he would be seeing
them all again, shortly. How thls1
would come to pass he didn't YET
know. Only, somehow Mrs. JOY had
his address taken in case she
ever had thoughts of setting up .
little car for themselves mot thal
1t seemed likely. when dozen car; !
owners were always too keen on the
chance OF driving Lucy). They,
knew where to find him, any
time even IL it were not for
another week hence.
So he unused. taking his grasse
matinee luxuriously in his camp bed
that Sunday morning. pipe betwcen1
his lips Sunday papers and cup ~
tea to hand. and II fresh spring.
breeze blowing in upon him througn
the open tent flap that showed SKY,
of riotous blue and white. Stretch
OF green cricket-pitch. the black
ribbon of a cinder track, ana some.
long wooden buildings. "a,
For that year young Laverock and
two friends of his had gone in.o =
summer camp composed of three.
old army tents set UP in the helI
that adjoined a sports ground aud
pavilion belonging to some Lonuon,
firm. This ground was not far from
the railway that took them UP 10
town in twenty five minutes, and
the Eroundsmun date Army Scrv-.s
ice Corpse cooked their breakfasts
and did odd jobs for them OF the j.
other two demobilizcd warriors.
Archic's friends (hnrd-up, cheering,
athletic young Britons of bedrock
type, whose names, If they kept out
Of casualty lists. would never be-,
seen in any of the pnpers). one had
n Job on the railways. and the Other.
lad returned to- the city. Tho camp,
was at present augmented by tho,
brother OF this second young man. a
captain I'm Indian army kit who had
turned up one night unannounred
in search Of his relative, only 10 find
that he'd gone off on n walking tour'
for his fortnight's leave.