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Ining wild. She looked across
without raising her eyes, stealthi- | The Doctor started the car.ly, at Bunny's hand, the one hold- After a minute: "That's Matilda."ing the pencil. Was It trembling? he said. "Matilda. Mörris, slater Was he tod concealing his fears to Bertha Bliven who hanged her-She would have to, say something. self. Matilda's the little, girl, or "It's getting late:" Her voice was. She's quite all right in the seemed loud,
YOUNG U.S.
STUDENTS
To Design Suite On "Normandie."
FRENCH LINE'S TRIBUTE
1
mind save for that one memory. He looked up, smiled. "Must be Hello, there's a drop of rain. He all of nine o'clock. How sleepy board of directors of the Franch Marcel Olivier, chairman of the started the windshield wiper. we get out here!" "She often walks this road. Walks. "Let's go to bed."
Line, who arrived in New York like a man. She's strong.
He yawned and agreed; went recently after an extended trip "I'd have offered her a lift but the door. He called from there:
ont into the front hall and lacked of inspection in the West Indies, she always refuses. They say she "Why did you lock the cup-board Caribbean used to go running to that house, under the stairs?" trying to be on time, you know, over and over again. The house was boarded up, of course, and the first sight of it often would straig- hten her out. She'd snap back to normal, but not always; she has [been seen trying to open the front door; whimpering, calling out to
“I didn't lock it.”
com.
and
the Southern States, announced that his
He came back. "Perhaps I did,"
pany, through the Ministry of Merchant Marine, has given to the They went upstairs, he first, Fontainebleau he said. "It's no matter.".
School of Fine said good-night at the head of the Arts, housed in the Falace of Fon- stairway.
tainebleau and composed of Ameri- "Sleep well."
can students exclusively, the hon- PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY her sister that she was coming."alon in the lamplight was strange; luxe apartments on the line's new "I'll try," she said. His expres-lour of decorating one of the de Kenneth's dry mouth finally his eyes moved too quickly. Was Normandie, "word's largest steam- made words. "So you knew it was he terrified, as she was; or was ship," now nearing completion at she all the time Bunny was telling this again her imagination?·· St. Nazaire. u87"
From his bed in a far corner of "These young American students "Of course."
the great attic. he called cheer-will, I am sure, create an interiori "And you said nothing. Explain-fully to her. For a long time the which will reflect the highest cre-1 ed nothing to him."
combed her hair in the lamplight, dit on their splendid institution "He's high-strung, though not as watching herself in the mirror and, on the French Line," said Mr, high-strung as his sister. I didn't Behind her on that square beam Olivier, "and one which will be
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& want to feed their imaginations was an iron hook. Was that the worthy of an honoured place on any more than they had already one Bertha had used? Possibly our great new flagship. It is safe been fed."
She combed very slowly. If she to say that the students of archi- could only lock the door, perhaps tecture, painting and sculpture, way. They left the car in. an open But there was no lock, the latch luxe, will produce a masterpiece. that would make her feel better collaborating on this one suite de carriage-shed and ran through palt-was broken. ing rain for a side door.
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Here was the
Greerson drive.
U.S. Artistic Designs. She heard, or seemed to hear; a A gusty wind staggered against
"Heretofore, the decorations of Bombay, Marseilles & London.
door open downstairs in the hall our ships have been French crea- the window-panes. Greerson sat Bombay, Marseilles, & London.
The cupboard door, One hand up tions throughout, but thear young down before his fire. Kennneth Bambay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
with the comb ake waited. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &paced the long room. He said:
It Americans, many of whom have "Which direction was she goA stair creaked,. quite plainly.
was nothing. It was the wind....shown the spark of genius, are liv Jing?"
ing these formative years of their After a long time another creaked artistic life in France, surrounded "Up the road, home-I suppose." She heard someone breathing out "Sure?"
there just outside her door.
by the most magnificent works of The latch began to move,
French art, and the work on which The door opened. She, the old they collaborate for our new liner
should prove to be woman. atood in the doorway combination of their native Ameri- black bonnet and shawl gleaming with rain. She was. terrified, her fluence of the French artistic tra- can artistic ideals and the in- white hands shaking as she raised ditions which surround them." them and came into the room.
The Fontainebleau School Natalie moved back. The lamp went over with an outburst of Fine Arts, which has been fune- brittle little sounds. For
tioning now for 13 years, has its
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Dr. Grearson slowly shook his head. "Come to think of it, maybe jshe wasn't."
"Maybe she was going back." "Back where?"
"To her sister's. To Bunny's house. For the first time she finds somebody to open the door for her.. You know. I think we'd better go
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"In this downpour? Over that ment it was dark, black dark. In ateliers in the historic old chateau
road?"
►
"We'll say that we've actually seen the old woman, that we know who she is, that she's
Do
come, for God's sake."
.
"They'll be in bed, my boy."
that blindness she felt the old,wo-| man's arms tight around her.
I
IIL Midway between highway and farm, the car hit something with a jelang. For a moment they sat In "Yes. But you see, I did an silence. The rain had stopped. other wrong thing. I told Natalie Kenneth climbed out, flashlight In about Bertha Bliven and how her hand. Presently he said: "The little sister came calling her, too rod's bent almost double. We'll late"
have to leave her here."
"You're a donkey." Dr. Greer- son said.
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"All
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They splashed and stumbled on. At the first stone gate there was the house, and & light upstairs, re- flecting on the wet leaves of an Jelm. They went on through the Jorchard. Kenneth whispered:
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"Wait!" and pointed.
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the slight smacking sound after. | They found him crawling in the
She wished it would go away. long grass. He looked up at them.
In the big room that had been "Natalie's gone."
had
the kitchen, within the outer He tried to tell how he radiance of the fire in the huge fheard her screams, had found her
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sat at a trestle table, as usual smother the fire. writing down and disgramming All the windows were broadly further plans for the farm. He lighted now. From the rain-soak- did not speak as she came in from ed shingles of the great roof rose the kitchen and sat down opposite clouds of steam and smoke, and [him, started to sew on pink silk,within a multitude of voices were The light was on her chin and under started, crackling, whistling, whic her eyes, which were all shadow pering. The green woods, stared. save when she looked this way and As flames filled the kitchen wing a that. Then they flashed.... It dish fell. A small, deliberate Was too quiet. She
wanted crash, then another and another.
Bunny to say something. She did They looked over the ground for not believe in his old woman. Was Natalie, called her name. The he, she wondered, really a little Doctor found her lying at Matilda's queer despite his precise words, his feat. heat diagrams?
.. "What have you done?". Into the silence, apreading out, The old woman looked above,hisi Alling it like a quick torrent, like head at the glare of the fire. She the rising spreading sound heard was smiling. The roof-tree pitch- under ether, abe heard one worded down with a rending Anal cry. one straining whisper::
"I carried her out in time, in "Bertha!"
time,Matilda sald Her: head Natalie looked at her sewing, was filled with a weary coonfusion Bunny made another mark on his of madness and actual memories. paper.
** How many times through the years There were many other sounds, he had come back harel She sounds in the walls. She even sighed. "At last. At last." heard the latch of the front door Dr. Greerson on his knees listened elick, and click again, if it had far-life Terror, he thought. How been closed after someone enter would she tell those others. He ing: Her imagination...was run-pretended to Haten
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