The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-15
Chapter 27 THE KISS

Chapter zI
 THE KISS
 .VA7OULD you like me to come and " see you off?" Georgie asked.
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 '1 can think of nothing that I should like less" and then feeling her hurt silence. he added. And that is compliment. if you know how to take it" He took off his hat once sgain and looked up at the moon. Say goodbye to me, Robin, and run home." r fH
 ''I don't want to say goodbye to you" t. nq9 :. r'Say goodnight then"
 She stood with down bent head, twisting her fingers together like a child. a.s "Shan't ever see you again?"
 "I don't know"
 Georgie was silent for moment, then she said haltingIy. 2 e.3iaf;ss 'If you ever want to see me, I'll try to come no matter where you are" & 7Fl f3 N
 "'Thank you. dear" 4s
 "Even if it's Germany"
 He smiled. "Or somewhere so far away that you couldn't possibly gel there?" he asked with faint mock. cry. st g1 A M "There isn't such place." Georgie said confidently, then suddenly she laughed. Uncle Edward always says that where there's;a will there's way, but he says that the trouble with most people is that there's nc damned will We'll. I've got lots ei damned will" And then as he did not speak. she added. "I,hope you're not shocked because said damn? ?' Nicholas Boyd moved suddenly putting out hand and drawing her to him, so that now the moonlight fell full on her face.y N a~
 "You look Nike an elf" he said. Something I'm just imagining something that's slipped off moon. beam. l should like to kiss you, but .." then abruptly he let her go Kun home, Robin. you must be tired." a
 But Georgie did not move.
 T should like you to kiss me" she whispered after moment, and then as he shook his head "Piease!"
 No. Robin." AN
 She drew a quick breath.
 Well then. I'll kiss you"
 He bent his head as he might have done to receive kiss from a child, turning the uninjured side of his face to her. But Georgie. said, rNo, the other side-"eand before he could prevent her. her soft lips had touched the ugly twisted scar In a tender caress. "Robin!" Boyd said hoarsely.
 He caught her by the shoulders, but she broke away and the next moment she was running away from him down. the moonlit road.
 nuRING the next fortnight SC - many things happened to Geor. gie that life seemed like a perplex, ing kaleidoscope whirling around her and showing her different pic tufes with every movement.
 In the first place her mother. as soon as she arrived in London, went (ss. Edward Bancroft jeeringly de seribed it) "all maternal"
 She arrived at the Hollies in a hired limousine and informed her brother-in-law that she was going to take her child away. sfe She looks like an actress out oi A cheap nielodrama." Bancroft in, formed Georgie. meeting her in the doorway after she had run breath IohSly up tHe 6diu posA wy cited by the sight of the huge car at the gate. And she's talking like a nOol-she wants to take yoi to s London to stay with her"
 Evelyn looked beautiful. the girl thought. and she smelt like the scent department in a large store as she bent and graciously dropped a. light kiss on Georgie's brown cheek. 1s Fl .'sYou're coming to London with me." she said. "If I'd known thai this was the sort of place you've been living in. should have taken yea away years ago."
 stYou did know" Georgie said.
 ETelynswent on. disregarding the trnthful statement. 2tt S.tAs for Edward :. he looks like . man who hangs round public housss." asssss aisis eessssss Georgie smiled. @He does." she knax1l sss-1-s.4. ssss