The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-13

pays for his own mistakes"
Carl, I'm shameless. / really
am. I'd forgotten Aunty."
did you ever have toothache?
One forgets that, too, afterwards"
But this isn't afterwards. You
don't know Aunty. Carl, I'll go to
her. You mustn't come. Please,
really, you mustn't. She will say
things that / don't want you to hear.
They're not true but she'll say
them"
"Are you sure?"
"You mean, am I sure they're
not true?"
II mean, are you sure she'll say
them?"
"Yes. She always does when she's
| angry"
Let, Lets find d,saO. out"
"You're embarrassed. Som /. It's
| good for both of us, so let's do it
together"
They took their time, strolling
along shadowy moonlit paths toward
| the guesthouse, too interested in
each other to notice voices until
they were quite close up beneath the
darkness of the overhanging trees.
The trunks no longer stood in a
row on the garden path. There was
light in the servants pantry at
the rear, and a smell of cooking.
Light poured through the living
room window.
'Hush," said Norwood. .'Listen.
Rule number one is don't talk in
the dark. Rule number two is listen
and learn, but never tell tales"
The Maharanee's voice came quite
distinctly through the open window:
IF l, who am broken-hearted, can
forgive my nephew Rundhia-"
An unmistakable voice interrupt
ed: You're being silly. Don't be
sentimental. You probably ruined
Rundhia by being sentimental. At
your age you ought to know better.
You should have spanked him when
he was young, and kept him short
of pocket money when he was old
er. / neglected to spank Lynn.
That's the trouble and I'm ashamed
of myself. Are you sure you know
where she is? Are you quite sure!
Who told you she is near the lotus
pond with Captain Norwood?"
"Six servants" said the Mahara-
nee, land one gardener. Also the
Chief of Police very kindly took the
trouble to phone me about it."
Imagine the impudence OF that
girl"
"But / haven't noticed that she
is impudent
IF she was in love with Captain
Norwood she should have told me. I"
do you think she knew it,"
asked the Maharanee. ''I knew it,
late this evening. But do you think
that Lynn knew it?"
| Aunty Harding cackled a chair
woman's ladylike laugh on two
notes, politely derisive:
Knew it? Maharanee, what this
younger generation knows is more
than you and I ever will know.
They're incorrigible. That girl has
more whalebone in her will than
there are cents in dollar. 1t isn't
brittle. You can't break it. It's
[ resilient"
YES" said the Maharanee, "this
generation has its own ideas. II
goes its own way. Lynn will go far. -
Aunty coughed drily: go far?
She will go to the devil, / don't
doubt. But I have this consolation.
If what you say is true, she has dis
graced herself with the only gen.
tleman I have met in India
The Maharanee protested Loyalty:
"His Highness my husband"
"Oh, kings don't count" said
Aunty. They're middle class now
adays. ! can't forgive kings for the
way they've sold out to the politi-
clans. I never will forgive them.
I'm Democrat and I'll die in my
boots"
"But you'll forgive Lynn?"
Getting back at me, are you? A
little sarcasm, eh? Maharanee, if
can get that mink Lynn to forgive
me before she has had time to Sian
der me to Captain Norwood, I'll
think I'm lucky. I'll be wizard
or is it a witch?"
"Or are you a little wiser than
you were?" the Maharanee suggest.
ed.
| Norwood whispered: "How much
did you bet? Are you still scared?"
Moses Lafayette O'Leary's whistle
piped from the nearby shrubbery 9
few notes of private signal: c, D
F,-C, D, F,-C, D, F--C. It star.
tied Lynn.
What was that? It sounded like
someone in hiding. Are we beine
watched?"
Eyes, the night has eyes in India
They've a saying here that even dia
monds see in the dark. That's q
very rough diamond informing me
/ that all's clear and he's off home
You go in. I'll follow you presently
] want to speak to him."
Norwood walked alone into thu
shrubbery. He almost walked int,
Moses O'Leary.
Il warned you," said O'Leary
"about women. By the hundred
they're all right. Ones a problem
But you wouldn't listen. I suppos,
you'll get yourself new man now
to say yes to you and tell you your,
Solomon. But Solomon had him
thousand wives, and concubines OF
top O. that. So put that in your pip,
and smoke it. Am out of a job?'
"Where's your horse?"
"'Tain't a horse. I rode you
baby mare. She's near the gate.