THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Cont'd)

Iodine two weeks ago when a thorn had scratched his knee as they moved forward trying to photograph a herd of waterbuck standing, thier heads up, peering while their nostrils searched the air. Their ears spread wide to hear the first noise that would send them rushing into the bush.

MR. AND MRS ELLIOT

Mr and Mrs Elliot tried very hard to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs Elliot could stand it. They tried it in Boston after they were married and they tried coming over on the boat, They did not try very often on the boat because Mrs Elliot was quite sick. She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick. That is women from the Southern part of the United States. Like all Southern women Mrs. Elliot disintegrated very quickly under sea-sickness, travelling at night, and getting up too early in the morning.

Hubert Elliot was taking post-graduate work in law at Harvard when he was married. He was a poet with an income of nearly ten thousand dollars a year. He wrote very long poems very rapidly. He was twenty-five years old and had never gone to bed with a woman until he married Mrs. Elliot. He wanted to keep himself pure so that he could bring to his wife the same purity of mind and body that he expected of her. He called it to himself living straight. He had been in love with various girls before he kissed Mrs Elliot and always told them sooner or later that he had led a clean life. Nearly all the girls lost interest in him.

Cornelia had said, "You dear sweet boy, " and held him closer than ever when he had told her how he had kept himself clean for her. Cornelia was pure too. "Kiss me again like that," she said.

Hubert explained to her that he had learned that way of kissing from hearing a fellow tell a story one. He was delighted with his experiment and they developed it as far as possible. Sometimes when they had been kissing together a long time, Cornelia would ask him to tell her again in that he had kept himself really straight for her. The declaration always set her off again.

Elliot kept on at the chateau in Toulouse because he had taken it for all summer. He and Mrs. Elliot tried very hard to have a baby in the big hot bedroom on the big, hard bed. Mrs Elliot was learning the touch system on the typewriter, but she found that while it increased the speed it made more mistakes. Teh girl friend was now typing practically all of the manuscripts. She was very neat and efficient and seemed to enjoy it.