The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-28
By inc World FORGOT
A Nesc Serial by Ruby M A.

quite glad when the time came for her departure. Ns Nobody considers what want or what l don't want" Edward Ban- croft answered. T suppose you came back because it suited you" T came back because there wasn't anywhere else for me to go," Georgie said.
 Didn't your mother ask you to stay?" he demanded.
 "No."
 He laughed hoarsely. "She wouldn't. She was always selfish woman;, all women are selfish"
 He closed his eyes and huddled down into the shabby dressing-gown. and after waiting moment. Georgie stole away.
 She felt a little lost ana lonely, but she supposed phi,osophically that in day or two she would have settled down again quite happily.
 She ate solitary lunch. Mrs. Lovelock declared that she had in- digestion and could not eat mouth full if anybody offered her the Throne of England. so Georgie sat alone in the dining room and wondered why she felt so disgustingly like tears. s~ It was, no use crying anyway; be- sides. she didn't know why she wanted to cry: she blinked hard at an unappetizing suet pudding (which Mrs. Lovelock had served up because she thought it was time Georgie had Good English food after all that heather rubbish") and felt as if she would choke.
 Was Nelly Foster feeling like this? Perhaps she was too busy serving the nasty old women she had spoken about to think of other things. At any rate she wouldn't be alone; and she was occupied.
 "l wonder if J could work in a shop" Georgie thought. "!t wouldn't bS SO oeho III o toboONOIiot RCl hapos or even sweets"
 Mrs. Spears always declared that without work to do she would go mad. Without work to do. you've got to much time to think" so she said in her brisk way And if you think too much you get sorry for yourself. and that's fatal"
 "Its what's happening to me-" Georgie thought in sudden panic, and she pushed back her chair and rose from the table. leaving the suet pudding to grow cold in uncut soli. tude.
 THE house seemed silent and de ' serted. Mrs. Lovelock had retired to her room. and Edward Bancroft had gone out. no doubt to the Boar's Head. a
 And I don't blame him." Georgie thought in revolt. "It's better to be down there talking to people than sitting up here alone with nothing in the wide world to do."
 She took her hat and went out.
 The sun was shining now. but as 1t was everybody's lunch time the streets were deserted.
 Georgie turned away from the di- rection of the Boar's Head and walked down the long country road.
 "Too much time to think" yes. that was what was the matter with her If only she could do something useful, make herself necessary to one single person in the great wide world; there must be somebody who would be glad to have her!
 She turl.ed aside and leaned her arms on gate that shut off a wide field of beans. Georgie liked leaning over things-she found it restful. She remem bered suddenly how she had leaned over Nicholas Royd's big trunk and he had come along and asked her if she felt i'll.
 She smiled at the memory. then all at once she found she was crying. We'll. 1t didn't matter if one cried out here: there was nobody to see, and perhaps if she had. one, good howl she would feel better and stop being sorry for herself. So Georgie howled; not loudly. but with her face hidden on her arms till the sleeves of her thin coat were drenched. x
 She did not know why she was weeping: she only knew that there was hard little feeling round her heart that had got to be melted or she would never be happy or satis- fled again. s
 s,- After all. one had to go on, no matter how lonely. and unwanted one might be. but for once her cheary optimistic belief that there was something wonderful. lying close in store for her, had let Georgie down badly and tears were the only way out.
 I'm a fool" she told herself. even as she wept
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