Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-21

"A very unfortunate episode, that"
sighed Mr.. Bywater.
MY changer"
81 could see the moment he walked
in here that he was not himself.
Shaken. Something in the way he
looked at one I said to myself, The
colonels shaken'!"
| John, who had had such recent ex-
perience of the way Col. Wyvern looked
at one, agreed He then asked II he
might have his change.
mo doubt, he misses Miss Wyvern,"
said Charles ByWater, ignoring the re-
| quest with an indulgent smile. When
a mans had shock like the coloners
! had-when he's shaken, il you under
stand what 1 mean-he likes to have
| his loved ones around him. Stands
to reason" said Mr.. Bywater.
| John had been anxious to leave, but
he was so constituted that he could
not tear himself away from any one
who had touched on the subject Of
Patricia Wyvern. He edged a little
nearer
We'll, she'll be home again SOON"
said Charles Bywater. Tomorrow.
understand
A powerful current Of electricity
seemed to pass itself through Johns
body. Pat Wyvern had been away so
/ long tndJ he Idu 1dueu libo = SolI VI
dull apathy, in which he wondered
sometimes if he would ever see her
| again.
| What"
eyes. sir. She returned from France
yesterday. She had good crossing.
She is at the Lincoln Hotel. Curzon
street, London. She thinks OF taking
the 3 O'Clock train tomorrow. She is
in excellent health"
n TO1Yf I'm HIfeetinn
| the accuracy of the others information
nor to be surprised at its minuteness
Of detail Mr. Bywater, he was aware,
had a daughter in the post once.
Tomorrow" he gasped.
Eyes, sir. Tomorrow"
GIVE me my change" said John.
He yearned to be off. He wanted TO
ponder over this wonderful news.
mo doubt" said Mr.. Bywater,
Give me my change" said John.
Charles Bywater, happening to catch
his eye, did so.
To reach Rudge Hall from the door
of Charles Bywater's shop you 60 up
| the High street, turn sharp to the left
! down River lane. cross the stone bridge
that spans the slow-flowing Shrine as
it potters past on its way to Join the
Severn, carry on along the road till you
| come 10 UnP RHJBS OF SOl. WYNbGn
nice little house and then climb a stile
! and take to the fields. And presently
YOU are in the park and can see through
| the trees the tall chir1neys and red
walls of the ancient home of the Car
modys.
| The scene, when they are not touch
| ing off dynamite there under tbs noses
of retired military officers, Is one Of
quiet peace. For John 1t had always
held a peculiar magic. In the IA
years since the Wyverns had f1rst come
| to settle in Rudge Pat had contrived,
so far as he was concerned, to impress
her personality ineffaceably on the
| landscape. Almost every inch of 1t
was in some way associated with her.
Stumps on which she had sat and
swung her brown stockinged legs; trees
beneath which she had taken shelter
with him from Summer storms; gates
on which she had climbed fields
across which she had raced and thorny
bushes into which she had urged him
to penetrate in search of birds eggs
| they met his eye on every side. The
very air seemed to be alive with her
laughter. And not even the rbcollec-
| ton that that laughter had generally
BEEN directed at himself was able to
diminish for John the glamour of this
mile Of Fairyland.
Halfway across the park Emily re-
| Joined him with q defensive where-on-
earth did YOU disappear-to manner, and
they moved on in company till they