The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-31
Chapter IA eEoReIE's TRlN

Astill felt restless and unable tc settle to anything.
 { Mrs. Lovelock had not really re covered from her attack of what she called her chronic indigestion" and was not helpful.
 She and Georgie had always been : friendly, perhaps drawn together by their mutual loneliness. but since the girls return from America there had been a sort of armed neutrality between them which Georgie found it impossible to bridge. r
 Spoiled. that's what you are, ? :. Mrs. Lovelock asserted. Young peo' pie seem to think of nothing but gad. ding about nowadays"
 "Well. I haven't done much gad ding" Georgie said. "Once to Amer. ica. and that's all. l wish I'd never gone"
 Not more than do," was the re ply. You're an altered creature since you went to that heathenish place. Always incoming about. star ing at nothing. Why don't you make yourself useful?"
 T try. and you won't let me. If begin to do anything you come and take it away from me-"
 Because you do 1t as if you were in a dream. and there's no time fol dreaming in this world if you wan to get on. We should never be done at all if the work was left to people like you. pity the man who takes you for wife"
 Georgie looked at her meditative ly.
 You're stupid old woman." she said.
 'Then get out of my kitchen and let me get on with the york;" was the angry answer.
 But Georgie stayed where she was.
 q suppose" she said, after a mo ment, q suppose it's never occurred to you that I'm not in exactly an en yiable position here, has it?"
 Y don't know what you mean. and can't bother my head answering silly questions. You're free to dc just as you like. You've got your own money, and nobody asks what vol do or where you go; what more do you want?" They looked at one another with disappearing eyes "Why don't you go up to London and look at the shops or something There's theaters to go to and heaps of places"
 Georgie thought for moment then she said. "All right, I'll go this afternoon"
 And good riddance" Georgie went up to her room witl lighter heart than she had carried for some time. She would go ant see Nelly Foster: she would call a the shop and buy some gloves. s WHEN she was ready she peepei w into her uncle's study. He wa! not there, though the inevitable whisky bottle and used tumblel rfnod m tho tahIa
 Georgie sighed; he would no miss her, that was certain.
 She walked to the station, passing the Boar's Head with quickenet pulses and averted head.
 She had not seen Nicholas Boyt since that meeting in the lane though she had gone down each day since and leaned over the gate.
 At the station she bought film magazine and settled herself hap oily in corner of the railway car .riage. She so seldom went to Lon don or anywhere else that this visi seemed quite an adventure, and sht { ffelt grateful to Mrs. Lovelock fol suggesting it.
 She turned a page of the paper on her lap, and the first picture tha' met her eyes was one of Nicholas Boyd's wife, very pretty and smiling and scantily dressed, sitting astridt . crescent moon.
 Bernie Boyd, the film star wht will play opposite Roy Francis fl hi1 next picture, Moonlight"
 Georgie stared down at the smil ing face. b
 Yes, she was certainly pretty enough, if one liked that blonde type of beauty, and she supposed that most men did.
 Georgie was not fond of golder hair, but she sighed as she stared down ct Bernie Boyd's rather fixe( smile and wondered il NIchelal loved her very much.