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(Continued from
said Calis
Freath
when Grosvenor paid you [27 10s, or what amounte
|10s; at the rate of
the day when you
foriginal cheque. You see
suppose ?***
“Ive always acen text"
Collis "Ewas because I saw who thought that that I sent him back tha}But $25,000 gulden."
"Which turned out to be worth"
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Collin wrot
Therefore, Grosvenor sees that he very little owes you 68. 8d. Surely to good-
Iness that must be plain to you!"-
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A minute ago," said Cothis, rious of undy "you said that I owed his 10,000 jarie. All he said abou
fal-order and the Igulden
**I never said any such thing." shamps was that they said Beeton. irritably. I couldn't handed to Mr Gross bave said that when it's perfectly even forgot to give directions plain that he over you money the tearing up of the cheque for That's to say, he did owe you a thousand, gulder, which he had money before he sent his last sent the day before cheque. In inclined to think that now you owe him something.” before the glorious beginning of angler was, however, reinstated "But how much?" said Collis his leave-he received a short but a few months later-Trans-Ocean
Service. —That's what I've been trying all rather disturbing letter from Max- along to get you to tell me. Howjorie. much do I owe him now?**
"If I were you,” said Beeton. "I should send him a cheque for ja thousand-gulden and say that
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"But does it?. For goodness sake, Beeton, don't let me in for
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entirely. But de remember that: jold Grosvenor is frightfully par
ticular about money. Not that he's a screw. I don't want you to think that It's simply that he bikes to have everything exactly right.”
“A thousand gulden will square : things exactly" said Beeton firmly.
Collis retired to his own office and wrote a long letter to Mar- jorie. He dwelt at length on the fact that only twelve days re mained before he started for home; that in seventeen days he would see her again, and when he saw her he wonśćavam Having finished the strictly per- [sonal part of the letter, he added short paragraph about the cheque he enclosed
that
Nine days later three days
"Dearest Eddy,----
SPECIAL MEMORIAL SERVICE
At Catholic Cathedral To-morrow
"For goodness' sake, don't send any more cheques to dad. He's perfectly furious over the thousand last, the one for gulden. I gave it to him, just as you told me to He soaried....
ather when he saw it, but he
Tomorow at 10 am put it in his pocket and took #
Something had special Memorial Service for His to the bank. happened to the exchange, and Majesty the late King George V all he got for your cheque was will be held af the Catholic 1040 He came home in a Cathedral, with the following pro passion, and said that you were gramme: making a fool of him before his banker. Then he talked a lot) about bankrupt Balkan States and when I said it wasn't your fault that Megalia was poor, he! simply snorted and said it was WES kept your fault that he lodging and drawing little tup- pezy cheques, and that his bank book would look like a jigsaw Drvade
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3.
Libera Me Domine (Parusi).
4. Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
5. Funeral March.
6. God Save the King,
All Catholics and pupils
So please, Eddy, dari-Catholic Schools are cordials “in- ing don't send ány more vited to attend. cheques, even if you think you
owe him money, which I'm sure pay fivepence for getting it cash-
you don't."
ed. He seemed to "think you'd
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Collis slept very badly that done it for a joke, and where First Class Fare to Sydney's
He recollected the postal said, just to pacify him, that I was sure you really meant it, be
"By the way," darling, would bright you mind giving this cheque to order he had sent off and could not SAILINGS our father? I hate to bother possibly get back. He was afraid
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Calls Fort Swettenkem,
you about money affairs in every that Mr. Grosvenor would be said that made it much worse." letter, and I won't write an ex-seriously angry.
and plmation of this cheque. Your What happened was far "worze father will understand it at once than anything he expected. The 忽 test [when you give it to him, and next day brought him
Now is the time to visit,
lands of Sunshine and Romance,
these exchanges are far too com-stained letter from Marjories plicated for your dear, pretty "Dearest, darlingest Eddy, -- little golden bead"
"It's all over between us, and Next, morning, shortly after our wedding can never come of Collis reached the Legation, Bee-Dad says that he'll never, never ton walked into his room.
consent to my marrying a man
Collis walked round to Bector office with a white face and clenched teeth.
“Things were bad enough ber fore you butted in," he furiously, "but they're far wa since you made me send a midieu- los cheque and then pained
worthless P.Q. on me."
"You can't say pabnet of” said Beeton, "when didn't make you Australia & New Zealand a half the night." he who treats money as a subject for
said Cheerfully, worrying out practical joking. He says that Pay for it. I made you a present that little problem of your deal your conduct shows a Rippancy and at that PO., Callis Don't Jings with old Grosvenor. Ia disregard for the serious in-
"Anyhow, it's all over be wanted to see exactly how things terests of life which disgust him
Ime and Marjorie,” stand between you.”
But I'll stick to you, whatever be Collis "I thought," said
an-axys or does; though I suppose bitterly, "and it's
trult xiously, "that you settled that yes-now we'll have to be married
"Don't give way,” ELİĞ terday afternoon.”
without a wedding cake, and very "You're going home of leave likely he'll take away my trous"
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(Continued from
than ability and industry,
26-K party and sonal loyalty to his leader have) linduced him to hummolate himsel
on the alter instead of defending himself, as he might have done
Hysteriz
PROFESSOR'S FALL WHEN RIDING
Horse Run Into By
Motor-Car
Donald Struan Fellow of Trinity and Regius Professor of
Cambridge, had smar escape' recently when out
A motor-esz zani înto the back of his horse and the professor had a fall, but fortunately,
I was in the House of Com-caped with only a few bruises.
lof Sir
throu
"I thought so, too. And so, of seau, which he's quite capable of morrow, aren't you?"! course, I had in a certain sense, doing in his present temper
I'm going on leave, but Tm att but Thit upon a much better plant als grose over that postal going home What's the use of of settling it last night.
order for 1s. 6d. and the two going home now? I shall go to trouble all along has been that stamps. I wouldn't have given Prague, or Bucharest or Sofia, or, the exchange kept jumping about them to him at all, but they fall some place where a man's while your cheques were on the out of the envelope and lay in the couraged to be miserable and on 15 way to Grosvenor, and his to you; table. All the while I was read where there's no-law against com- so that they were either worth ing your letter he stared at them mitting suicide. more than they ought to have with a baleful glare *: When? T'd "Don't be an ***" said Beeton, the face been or else much less when they finished he said, with most "Go home. I give you a letter ser
to their destinations. Now frightful coki saeer suppose which will set the whole thing there if you send him another cheque that money's for me? Of course,
right write to ald Grosvenor which is the outs for a thousand gulden the same I had to say it was, though if Td as me business man to another of the feeling of thing will very likely happen known what he was going to say He'll see things in a proper light It is never again.
I might have invented some sort once they're explained. Naturally to see
The got a bit rlled "when you and “Sure to" said Collis gloomily. of 'lie "Whereas, if you send him, an "It was then that he said the Miss Grosvenor kept pelting him with cheques and postal orders English postal order for what you frightful"" things I told owe him, it will have exactly the Mother thinks that she'll be able without a ward of explanation" same value when it gets there as to talk him round after a day or Beeton wrote the letter. when you send it on Thats my two, but she says Fim to extreat a very long one, and he plan for settling the thing finally" you not to seadany more money to it a kind of map, "But how the dence can I get So, even if you owe dad pounds off in sinal, squares an English postal order here?" and pounds," "don't pay us It's far line staggling across
He said it That's where I come in" said Better to de Beston, in a benevolent tone. "Trupt, if that's what it's called fuctuations of happen to have a postal order for when you owe money, than not to change for t
Ed which I brought back here be married
by mocident after my last leave. "Ever your beings Ill let you have it with pleasure. hearted Marjorie 1 Macrolimus I en make out, you *PS-Dad has fast com
Hold Grosvenor is"Ed" at the This letter was in its moment, so if you send stack up and stamped,
stamps, akng with thejunde mazopen it and nder the prair will be to say that the sending of
¡date postal coders is
thousand
you.
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