The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-01

something warmipg?" he asked.
 No. thank yon.'
 He turned to the door again and Georgie asked:
 "Is it tonight MT. Boyd is going away?" .. a.s, e,t
 By the midnight train, Miss"
 "Thank you"
 She did not like to ask to what destination Nicholas was going. < Where did midnight trains go?
 The door closed softly and she leaned her head on her hand.
 After Nelly left her that after noon. she had felt that she did not care; she had had wild ideas of ringing Clifford Asher and of telling him that she had changed her mind, but the. impulse had died away.
 At dinner time she had gone to bed, pleading headache.
 That had made Evelyn irate.
 You've no right to have head aches at your age." she declared, un- sympathetically. Bishop will be furious. He has got tickets for the theater. I thought you were so fond of the theater."
 Georgie shut her eyes.
 q don't feel well enough to go anywhere tonight" she said, won. dering vaguely if Bishop had ever been furious with anyone in all his life; he had always seemed to her to be the acme of patience, and en- durance. but perhaps in that also she was mistaken, as she had been about other things.
 "The time may come when you won't have the chance to go any where," her mother said sharply. You're getting thoroughly spoilt." She fidgeted round the room. "If you think want to go to the theater alone with Bishop. you're mistaken" !" she added. "He only got the tickets to please you"
 But Evelyn had gone alone with him after all and then Georgie had got up and dressed again. and had come to Boyd's rooms. No doubt he would be angry with her: possibly Nelly had been right when she suggested that he was not worth worrying about. Possibly she was not dear to him at all, and he had only said it to-in his own l words-"make things easier" THERE. was . ring at the bell. D Georgie sat up stiffly. It could not be Nicholas-he would surely have a key. M
 She heard footsteps crossing the tiny hall. then voices-a woman's voice.
 Nonsense. shall certainly wait" Then the voice of Nicholas's man.
 -s'But. madam" The door opened under an impa. tient hand. | Georgie rose to her feet, pushing back her soft hair; how her head ached! She felt little giJdy as she turned round and came face to, face with Bernie Boyd She was in evening dress, some. thing white and fluffy. and an ex- pensive fur wrap was slipping from her bare shoulders.
 She was frowning. as If some thing had made her angry; .Georgie realized that 'frown before Bernie stopped dead with little sharp ex- clamation.
 The two girls stared at one an. other; Georgie said nothing. she felt as if she was an onlooker in a queer dream. l Then Bernie said blankly:
 What in the world are you doing here?"
 Georgie found her voice with an effort.
 l S"I am waiting to see Nicholas
 "Nicholas!" I Bernie came forward slowly. her l.eyes very blue against her careful l makeup. When she was quite close to Georgie she spoke again. | Nicholas! How long have you I known my husband?" 4 Quite long time" Georgie said I slowly; each word seemed a difn culty. "'Ve came back from Amer \ lica on the same boat" \ q see" sa I The silence fell again, which Der \ nie broke with cutting little laugh Hardly tactful of him. is it. to have l asked IS both to his rooms at the same timer"
 He didn't ask ne" Georgie saic X just eame."' ] Really! And don't you think it's I rather strange for a girl like you to be visiting a married man. at this jtime of night?"
 T suppose you think so," Georgie said, and then: sIts not very late ! Is it?"
 Have you been here before?" sht asked.
 I Yes"
 fcopyrsoht. 1888, DoxbIedoy DorosJ ! l aseseIs sases, Monday, A taftIe|P