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and then went on as though in the veranda door (Continued from Page. 6)
conscious of the other's presence. the half-caste oversee? come for WORLD'S daughter of Henry VII, and here we were all trailing along the next day's orders. The music GREATEST thus unite the two branches of the same old ret day after day, ceased. the Royal House of England and and likely to go on doing it until Clearing, Weslie," said Cramp SYSTE
the end of the chapter. that country with Scotland:
Why? tom without taming his head The Scots, fearful of losing Because people, especially people we shall be choked out if we mortally don't take the west block and their independence, resisted, without
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The overseer withdrew noise- Thrilling lessly, but the spell was broker.
This bachelor king was. a isn't it?
Crazupton put away his symphony charming figure — a clever mu- Spiers thrust his hands deep and played no more. The next sician, an accomplished scholar, into his pockets, and looked round afternoon Spiers dropped in, hot and a keen amateur astronomer with an air of mock defiance. and enthusiastic from the beach. His name is commemorated in "I pose it is," said Cratip- “Now that you've saved my life,”
schools tox nummerpus grammar
he said, putting down an empty throughout the country. Ee
“But there, I can't imagine you glass, "do you mind telling me probably died from an infecbeing thrilled by anything" con-what all this is?" He led Cramp tion; and had he received skiltinged Spiers simily. "And in a ton on to the veranda, and one by
& weird assortment of South Pacific animalculæ,
ful medical treatment — then unobtainable he might have I envy you. You're a plan-one extracted from a native read wished to marry Mary Queenter your plantation keeps you, basket
and nothing else matters." of Scats, and to rule both king Crampton winced, then smiled. doms wisely and well
"In fact I'm one of your fellows down in the valley, or was it a rut he suggested whimsically.
"It bests me that you never take a stroll, he babbled on. "I Premature Death.
saw my first twelve-inch land crab to-day, and did you ever see any- His premature death delayed the union of the Crowns until
“Now, you're getting at me.” thing like a rock pool for variety the Accession of Mary's son,
"Not a bit. It's the truth.” of life and colour? Unbelievable James L of England, who was
"And it's the truth, that in a little beggars darting in and 'ont) crowned King, James VI of way I envy you," said Spiers, of the coral or buried in the sand. Scotland on his mother's abd-wriggling out of his chair and For instance, what's this?" cation, when he was but a year pacing the mat-strewn floor with
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The question of his marriage sant to have an incurable disease sale. opened up long and anxious spe- gnawing at your vitals, and that's *And this?" culations and tormented his what this amounts to," he indi mother during the last years cated the of her captivity. Two years wall with a wave of the hand To Four shirt buttons are mother-of- after her execution he married be eternally chivvied by something Pearl, but they're not; they're the fair and gay Anne of Den-inside of you that wants to be ex-troca shell; 52 per ton delivered mark, thus bringing a Queen of pressed. I tell you, Crampton, it's in Sydney."
"Never saw such a fellow as you England for the first time since not all jam. Sometimes I wish......
are for the coupercial side cf the conquest from the country I wish—” of our ancestors, the Vikings. "Don't you get to wishing for everything. Look at the colouring: Later that land was to give us anything
eise
than what lies isn't that worth more than money? the beloved Queen Alexandra. ahead of you,” Crampton broke What's this ***
Crampton did not answer. He was staring across the litter at a dull grey substance about the size of a coconut
“Oh, I brought that along be cause I couldn't make it out,” said Spiers. “Found it on the other
sand... 2.
in "You be chived all you can, Charles And His Bride
and get out of here with the re His son, Charles L, did not suits as quick as the Lord will let marry until after he had be you. Ta telling you now.” come King It was as a reign- Spiers
surprised into ing monarch that he went to silence. This was a new phase of greet his bride, the beautiful Crampton's. Henrietta Maria, who brought "I hope I haven't offended- side of the bay, half under the as her dowry the noble blood be began.
It smells queer and looks of Bourbon and Medici, and "Offend nothing!" boomed the queer, and that's as far as I got.” great personal happiness to her other. "You can't offend me, and ·Crampton took it in his hand adoring husband.
as for envying me he laugh-and weighed it thoughtfully. Ee. Charles I returned to his ed shortly, bitterly; and held out was so long in answering that kingdom a bachelor, and re his two gnarled hands; then Spiers's active mind had already mained unmarried for two years turning abruptly, passed out into Passed on to other matters. before his splendid nuptials the blinding sunlight on the beach. *....it may sound fitile" he with Catherine of Braganza.
"Rum old stick," mased Spiers was saying, "but why not? There who brought as her dowry Dan hope I haven't-ah, here they are marine subjects; why not sub- kirk and Tangiers.
marine? No one has ever really
ton."
come!"
da.
have on
Though the first two Georges | It was evening and the fishing done it, and some of these coral possessed kingly qualities and canoes were drifting by to their gardens are infinitely more beau- were of the royal British line, village down the
Their tiful than anything we coast. their foreign educations render-rews chanted sonorously of Vart land. As a flight of fancy, what led them alien to the English, the great Turtle that had lured do you think....?"
but the last King (George III) one of their ancestors to his death. Crampton heard him prattling to come to the throne a bache-mong the coral caverns of Sanan-on, but he was not listening. He lor, was educated in this soun-
From far away came the was staring at the dull, grey sub- try and early declared that helaintive hoot of a coach. Already stance in his hand. It was not "gloried in the name of Bri-the night flowers were opening til Spiers had taken his usual their waren petals and spilling hurried departure in answer to Very Popular
his dinner lali that Crampton their store, of fragrance on the Extremely good-looking, sin-stagnant air.
realised he had not spoken. In a cere and high-minded, the Spiers leant on the veranda rail-stride he was at the veranda rail, young King was very popular ings, the languorous charu of it and his marriage with Char-stealing over him like an opiate.
There was a dazed expression an lotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz At the bend in the red earth Crampton's face, as he turned back was the occasion of great re-beach leading up to his bungalow, to the living room. Why had be joicinge and festivities in Lon-Crampton stopped to release
not spoken? Why was Spiers don.
banana bud from a creeping vine always in such an infernal hurry It was then nearly 100 years The weeding was disgracefully in mentally and physically? since the marriage of a reigning arrears as usual. Then there was would only give a fellow time to Sovereign, and this was one of shipping day next Friday, and find his tongue; but no, he must the happiest events in the his after that more weeding.
go dashing off, leaving behind him tory of the British Monarchy,
2 young fortune in the shape of a dull, grey substance about the
Fore
clearing, the eternal struzzle with
but Spiers was out of sight
The Queen possessed those primeval jungle, the eternal rate of a coco-nut.
If he
womanly virtues and that high
He passed on up the path. conception of her office which That night, a
Crampton placed it carefully on seized whim became a tradition with British Crampton
the table and stood looking dully He played his ay at its netuous sheen under the royal ladies. and the King's phony, the expression in music of yellow light of the swinging lamp. conduct during a long reign en-all that had enchanted him during There was not a doubt that it was sured a respect for the Crown his early days in the islands ambergris Neither was there a 5th Max.which it has never lost. 3rd Apr.
He played it on the only instru- doubt that it was worth all of ment immine to a tropical climate, the organ that had stood untouch- ed in a corner of his untidy living the jester had seen to that. The And Spiers had found it. Fate
room for over three years. It was this that had been his dreamony of the thing wrong a mirth- before the "But claimed him, and less laugh from Crampton. It was back there? Batadi, had deigned 30 natural, so exactly what hap to say that he was promising, pens in this comic-opera world.
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