The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-31
by Julia CIeft-Addanls

| "He isn't exactly ill But he's had an exhausting trip and he isn't robust. He forgets that he is an old man"
 Perhaps he doesn't feel old, m his heart"
 i've never before heard anybody suggest that he'd got one. Ycun have a cocktail?"
 Jenny shook her head, then re- membered that Georgie had told her it was babyish, nowadays, to refuse, and took a little fce-cold glass from the silver tray a foot man held before her. @Don't drink it," said Agency quietly, as the man left the room. s.Youn dislike it. Besides, it's not your pose
 She looked up at him, flushing deeply. No doubt, he was msk- ing fun of her, though there was no sign of it in his face He stood with one shoulder against high. carved mantel, his slen'derness en- phasized by the brightly panelled walls behind him His face was half in shadow; and she remem- bered that in her dreams of him, | it was a'-Tays like this that she saw him-with his wide shoulders and slender hips and long, idle hands all clearly cut against the light. but his face hidden in shad- ow
 T am wondering whether you will tell me something?" he said, from out of his shaved. eyes, what is it you want to l ask?"
 why did you have yourself an- nounced as Miss Revell?"
 Jenny thought in vain for an answer. He bent down and re- moved the little glass which she was still clutching.
 II shouldn't have thought you were that sort"
 What sort?" managed Jenny.
 7 The sort that insists on being modern-though married. The Brig itta Deaering type. Or is it some league that makes you take a pledge never to use your husbands name? Anyway, it's a movement. l And I shouldn't have through that you would belong to it.
 q don't"
 "Then why"
 T forgot. I mean, I forgot that am supposed to be Mrs. Town send It is lucky chance that MT. Matching isn't here" But | the explanation did not appear to satisfy him. He repeated sup posed to be" and laughed. A door in the paneling opened, A footman stood rigidly by it, wait ! ing. Garth Agency shrugged and turned.
 .s"Shall we dine?" Her mind raced as she preceded l him into the smaller room, on the other side of the bright panels and the silent servants. Why had he shrugged like that, as though ] he despised her? Surely he could not think that it was she who had married Eddie? Surely he must have guessed, when his uncle or dered him to play host to Mrs. Townsend, exactly what had hap pened. He must of assumed that Georgie, whom he knew to be in love with Eddie, ('He ought to thank his stars for youD had cov- cred her marriage by making use of her cousins identical name Agency seated herself opposite her and began to talk, easily and brilliantly, All about Mexico, where apparently, he had been for many years.
 i eMexico?" she repeated, catching timidly at the name. Eddie was to have gone there. But I don't believe he Wlll ever De able to go now"
 I'm sincerely sorry to hear it. I was to have met him this week, but I understand he's not allowed to see anyone"
 T don't think he will fly again. I'm afraid not I didn't know that you wanted to see him."
 @You knew, surely, that he was to have returned to Mexico with me? I'm taking pilot and ob- server back with me. He didn't tell you?"
 1 She shook her head. No, she had not been told Georgie, now she came to think of it, had ex- plained very little. Her thoughts went confusedly back to her prob lems. Supposing she had been mistaken from the first and Geor- gie had never fully explained to this man, either? He might after all, have sent him away without saying word of Eddie.