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(Continued from Fage 9.)
Chynoweth had brought her a skinned. duck wrapped in those long sweet rushes that he cut from the bogs to winter-feed his cattle. Mathews, the doctor, new-come to the Natanit, had a branch of the thick white dog-wood flowers, like magnolias or the flesh of sensuous the Turkish women of jcountryside; a little sly and aloof, but warm withal. Young Sparling had a poem from a month-old pa- per. A foolish thing about better times coming, and nothing ever lasts. Did they hope to comfort; her with that when her son gone?
women!
was
Reed knew one thing that lasted. Death. Mighty queer thing, death. Comes so quick and stays so long. Even yet he could barely believe) that it had come to Louise just in that moment when he stopped her whining with hands about her fat when Sometimes, brown neck. wind went moaning through grey skies and ragged seas and the gulls wheeled homeless it was easy
But that evening
think of death.
had sheerly palpitated
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A grandmother for the second time, Queen Marie of Rumania is shown is the attended the christening party for the infant daughter of Princess Ileana in Vienna. With Queen Marie are the Archduke Anton of Hapsburg. Ileana's husband, holding his son, Prince Stefan, and Ileans, holding new baby, named Ileana Marie.
remembered
had that he He thought of that at the time; poising the his paddle, breathless with hush and the glory. He had won- dered what the scene was set for: this mad master-painter jumble of lakies blazing with scarlets and sul. [phurs and vagrant apricots and blues: of seas purring under laced
or something on apple-pinks and citrons, of breezes for partridge abroad, weaving scents into an allevery little sandspit and knoll. Or most visible pattern of floating Mathews, taking a short cut to sweets; of pale green-foamy bub-someone sick on Rosalle, stumbling- bles that were the coast maples up the slope among the flowering| quivering before the passionate on-currant-bushes and finding that set of birds' mating-songs.
mound speckled with the pink and
A little later he knew. It had crimson bloome.
Seductive
mar-
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I been set for the most terrible, It had been crazy work to bury
most stupendous gesture that man her on Stack Island, lying as it didį
the can make. Cain's gesture. A declenn in the fairway. But struction of something which he danger of the shallows ringing it The Steamship knows that he never can replace. kept people off. The insolence of it! The magni-vellous shallows; a dancing shim- 23rd Feb. ficencel If he could only get them mer of dream of song, rosed whites,
to realise that,
and milky pearls, and frai! ambers He had paddled on towards the shot fiercely now and again with beach to find her there. Still there the strong colours of the
rocks after three hours! Squatted among below. He would miss not seeing the white strawberry stare in her them any more. shapeless Indian clothes, with
Puckishly little Kid Counte was Goods remaining undelivered after coarse hair neglected over her stepping about the fire. He washe 26th February, 1984, will be sub swollen face and her bread nose noisily cheerful to-night, insteadiect to rent. snuffling up her tears. And he had of his usual fanciful delicate self. I presented to the Undersigned on or grown suddenly sick, an anyone Pity that he should have to know.efore would, of the burden and the dirt The elder men might have kept they will not be recognised. and the disgustfulness of her, and to themselves.
Mon.. Tuos.,
6th Mar. 3rd Apr.
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He had brought
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the 12th March, 1034,
or
To comply with the General Bond- d Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Oficer al-endance
when damaged roods are examined.
had stopped it all just for a min-mother some little gadget con-
He was ute. How should he or any manstructed by himself. guess that the minute was going to ways constructing something.
The others watched him 88
In the light of the fire,
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4th February, 1934, at 10 a.m., by
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under stopped across to his mother, took the pink stripped bole of a ma-up the toy. He felt their eyes: drona, mother was kissing Counte Tommy Glenn's goggled and for the present he had brought little awed; Sparling's superefl- She never kissed the others, linus; the doctor's purely profes though Chynoweth, for one, would Rional. Studying reactions, damned by have liked it. Men who live wo-his impudence. Counte shrank mantess lives and slave like the de-away, and au Reed said, lightly:
How d'you vil must have some kisses. But he "What's the trick? who had had those firm, passionate do this parl?" mother-klases his life long must "Why, you fix it so," said Counte. needs go craving the thick anims! Their hands brushed and the littlo kinses of Louise. What did the chap's felt quite cold. He had a fellows think when they guessed piteous shrivelled look to-night, with his fair skin damp and sal Tommy low.
Reed grow irritated. What Persistent aid they want....dragging it.out.
that?
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