The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-15
Her mother snivered.

"Well. how long will it take you to pack your things?" she asked. Georgie considered. About five minutes 1 should think. 1 haven't got very much to pack"
 Evelyn eyed her disparagingly.
 ''Is that your best frock?"
 Second best" Georgie said.
 well, suppose it will do to travel in. Nobody will see you in the car. How ever you managed to live here all this time passes my comprehension"
 "It was Hobson's choice," Georgie said essentially.
 She went upstairs slowly, with a regretful look at the closed study door.
 Would Edward miss her? she sup. posed not, even while she rather hoped that he would: perhaps he would be relieved by her absence. s,. She pulled open all the drawers lin the one small chest. her bedroom contained, and tipped the contents helter-skelter onto the floor. It looked rather hopeless mess. she thought, certainly there was noth- ling which would meet with Evelyn's approval.
 Mrs. Drill appeared in the door way. li as ;.
 You're going away?" she asked in dfsmay. w
 ! Georgie nodded. That's nay moth
 CT downstairs" .E n z4N "My!" Mrs. Drill was awed. "She looks like princess" she said. Georgie was thrilled. +Yes. she's rather beautiful" she admitted. fuM
 Not bit like you." Mrs. Drill said tactlessly.
 When she had departed again,
 Georgie looked in the mirror. ;si ! No. there wasn't the faintest re. semblance between herself, so
 brown and elfin looking. and the graceful. pink and white woman downstairs. She turned away and selected the most respectable of her shabby garments and packed them into suitcase. s It seemed funny to be leaving the
 Hollies so abruptly; it was like up-
 roofing plant that had always grown in the country and taking 1t up to London. and she was not sure whether plants that were used to the country liked living among
 chimney pots and paving stones- TIT HOWEVER. 1t was very exciting, something that would take her mind off the tragic happening of three days ago. when Nicholas Boyd departed for Germany. She had gone to see him of after all, though he had not known 1t. She had stood on the far end of the plat. form, her heart humping. her eyes eagerly scanning every compart- ment as the train passed her with ever increasing speed.a a1 She had caught one glimpse of him sitting in corner, his back turned to her, and she had blown a kiss to his shoulders and averted head before the train rounded the bend and disappeared.
 Since then the world had seemed curiously empty; as if someone had dug a big hole in it which nothing could ever fill The days had seemed long, and the nights endless, and only that morning returning from a forlorn walk. Georgie had decided to write to Clifford Asher and ask him to take her out to another
 lunch. In Ter mind she had even composed the letter. but when she turned the corner and saw the big
 Daimler at her uncle's gate. every
 thing else had been wiped from her
 memory. a s SGT And now she was going to Lon don to live in an expensive hotel
 and have extravagant lunches every
 day of her life; she wondered why she was not more thrilled at the
 prospect. 5ss
 She put on her hat and coat, hat ing the hat--it always made her
 head ache-and dragged the suit
 case after her down the stairs,
 pumping 1t at every step. Evelyn came out into the hall to meet ner.
 My dear child, couldn't the ser. wants have brought that down for
 you?" she asked. s.A
 We haven't got any," Georgie
 said bluntly. "Only Mrs. Drill. and
 she's not so strong as I am." Are you ready?' asked her mother. nA1 q "Yes don't you want to say good, bye to Uncle Edward?" Evelyn shivered.
 T think you can say all the fare
 wells that are necessary she mur. mured Georgia went to the study Ed
 ward Bancroft was sitting by the
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