Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-26

IN tell you, if I can get it quit,
clear"
He paused and sent out a small clouC
of fragrant gray smoke with hint o.
blue in 1t. His brown eyes looked fol-
a moment puzzled but thoughtful.
1T seems to me-" he said at last
that there's something strange, al
most mysterious, in our intercourse.
"A chance meeting In train little
that mysterious?"
You are pretending" he said, look
ing steadily at her. You have felt
what have-that there's something
strange, quite out of the way, about
our association today. Now isn't that
true?"
Lady Gleadon played with her coffee
spoon. 1t clinked against the saucer
Of white and gold china
Wait a minute. Give me time"
"As much as you like if you'n give
me an entirely sincere answer"
him. She wasn't exactly a pretty
woman, but she had a good deal Of
grace. She was very slim with dark
almost black eyes. She was tall for a
woman. She had a serious mouth and
looked more intellectual than really
she was. There was even about her
a something of poetry.
Il think 1t is true" she said at last,
In rather a low voice, but don't at
all understand it,"
do tell me your exact feeling about
It, It would interest me very much"
Again she was silent for two or three
minutes.
Anything one feels to be mysterious
is difficult to explain" she said then.
Il don't feel at all as if we have
ever met before, not in the ordinary
way, but on another plane. Is that
right?"
Go onl"
Long ago, perhaps, before we hon
ored this particular bit of earth with
our presence. I've no feeling at all
that we've ever had anything to do
with each other till today"
And yet I don't feel that it's mere
chance that has brought us together
now"
''Nor do I. You feel as if there were
some special reason, planned as it
were, for our being together, as we
are, today, just today2"
Eyes. But that must be absurd, 1
SBut if I have it, too2 Isn't that
very curious?"
Have you it?"
Eyes. strongly. And 1 feel it increas-
ingly as the day wears on"
"A creScendo?"
yes"
That's very strange. 1t surely must
mean something"
ooh, it does" he said, with decision.
"a shared feeling between two strang-
we are still what are called
cfFn RI Zach nflanVs tc kroc n
on nothing, as 1t were upon air. I'm
convinced Of that. There's a reason for
It,"
IT can find none"
Nor I. The future will tel us, Is
bound to tell u.s."
THE futurel You think SOP"
Since the past has nothing to say
N the matter We're agreed on that,
THE absence Of the Z have been
here before feeling2"
yes. Neither Of us has II"
Neither of us"
Then the solution must be, viii be,
found in the future"
Have you any theory"
@No, / don't think so. I'm going back
10 my home and my husband. q have
40 children). You are leaving England
Tor Cairo. You won't be back for
ong timer"
Probably not"
We've never met before although |
we've both been on this planet for a
ongish time. (Of course I'm older |
han YOU'D. There seems no particular |
eaSon why we should meet again"
ooh, oaresay we shall. Don't you |
hink we shall2"
do You think SOP"
81 do. My belief In reasons for things |
makes me. This odd closeness Of our |
onafng together. so unl1gual-(f 0r moth /
az quite like this has ever happened |
o me bfore) makes ms feel that we
ahant be permanently d.
1ded In the future. IT we we're should
ever be able 10 find any reason for
gr meeting. IN fact there wouldn't
3 one. So shall look 20 the future"
After q moment she added:
~And I hops you VIII i