Evening star., 1937-10-24
Mosozine Section


One moonlight night she wept bitterly on
his shoulder, with moderation and respect
fCr her appearance, of course Herbert crushed
her to him and swore he'd do something
about it.
And one moonlight night Wani wept bit
terly without moderation or respect for her
self or anything else, on Wagus bare breast;
and Wagu crushed her to him and swore he'd
do something about it = become a better
thief, improve himself, be more worthy of her
and steal more of everything.
And it was ordained that Wani, in the
depths of the Jungle should bring great hap
plness to Sonia in the heart of the Denniston
shrubbery, as each embraced and inspired her
beloved Boy Friend
There probably never lived more pompous
person than the Honorable MIR. Peter Archi-
bald MacdOnnell, Commissioner of the North
ern Division of Madral In style and manner,
ne nodded himself on that genuinely great
man, George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of
India; and Lord Curzon was known in the
India of his day as The Imperial Lord Cur
zon, that Most Superior Curzon."
The Honorable Mr.. Peter Archibald Mac
donnell affected omniscience, almost omnip-
otence; and if his Indian subordinates and
subjects liked it. his European colleagues and
acquaintances did not. Of his friends one can
not speak, for he had none
In his self-sufficiency he walked alone, and
was content = until he met Sonia Denniston,
looked upon her and found her fair; mentally
promoted her to the heights he trod proposed
matrimony; and was accepted. For to the
Commissioner S headquarters seat of govern
ment the city of Calbay, Sonia had come on
visit to her brother. Captain Denniston of the
Goth Sikhs - undeterred by the fact that,
in brief but praseworthy effort to improve
his position and prospects, Captain Herbert
Wilbur had transferred from his expensive
British Regiment to the Indian Army and the
Sikh battalion of his old friend Jimmy Dennis
ton.
And so it came to pass that, as a direct
result of his brief praiseworthy endeavor,
Wilbur beheld the appropriation of his be-
loved and beautiful Sonia by the pompous
MIR. Peter Archibald Macdonnell = a bitter
blow and poor reward of virtue.
And on this lovely cold-weather morning,
as the sun rose, he paced with Sonia the plat
form of the little wayside station of Hyder-
pur, awaiting the arrival of the train that had
the honor to bear the precious weight of the
importance of the Honorable Mr.. Peter
Archibald Macdonnell, c. S. L., c. l. E.,
l. c. S.. Commissioner of the Northern Divi-
sion of Madral. Together they paced Hyder-
pur's poor platform because Sonia had ridden
out from Cabay, by request, to meet hel
great fance there; and Herbert had ridden
out in defiance of prohibition, to beg her, for
the last time, to think better of this wicked,
worldly folly, to listen to the voice of love in
stead, and to break off this incredible engage
ment to this impossible old man, while yet
there was time.
Incidentally, the years of the old man were
but fifty and three, whereas his income, Off
cial and private, was quite seven times as
big as Herbert S; his position most eminent;
and his social and official standing second
only to that of the Governor himself
mo, it's no good, Bertie,"
Sonia said. I'm going to do the
wise thing. Five thousand year.
knighthood, and the Number
One Female of Calbay So
ciety =. Nuff said, shut up."
But you love me, Sonia
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