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THE CHINA "MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936
Frangipanni
wore a blue open shirt and grey alacks: a cigarette hung limply from his fingers. ·
Miriam looked him up and down. How annoying. Probably he had been watching her for some time. Her tongue seemed tied; she could not think of anything to say reply.
in
"Oh!" she said, and then bit her lip: it sounded such a fatile reply.
"I mean it drawled the young: man. "You look a regular Diana and Aphrodite. .. or something. I can never remember which were
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"And," said Miriam slowly. "I take it I look like one of the athle tic ones?"
The young man ross lazily to this feet.
tall, Miriam He was noticed, and his eyes were blue.
"To call you a happy medium” be said. "open air-cum-boudoir. A great pity there aren't more of the type,"
And with a flashing smile he disappeared inside a door and was gone. Miriam shrugged her shoul- went There really were some mad people about, she thought to herself.
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sweet, or was it, could it be, be- cause she would soon be seeing Roger again? She became aware of Tony beside her.
"Quite pretty, isn't it?" "Beautiful,” she answered soft-!
The ship swung into the Lombo wharf. The agents came aboard with the mail. Miriam leaned over the side, watching the busi- ness" of loading, and Tony drifted away to another part of the ship. Somehow, Miriam reflected, the smell of copra didn't seem bad at) all now. She was busy with her thoughts when she heard the pur- ser call her name.
"Mail. Mrs. Missingham." be said. and handed her a letter and 2.packet. The letter was from Roger. With a shaking hand she tore it open.
"Darling," it read. "It seems too marvellous to be true. I hard- I know whether I'm on my head for my heels, and I've been in a daze ever since I heard you were And to think you'll on the boat.
be home to-day!
I've
'sald
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"Big news, darling. the plantation, and I've got other just out of Rabaul. So you'll have as much company as you waat in future. I hope you're as de! lighted as I am, for it'll make all Together they. her honeymoon. read, danced, carried off the deck the difference to us.
"With this letter there should "Hullo, may I sit here too?"
be something to remind you Miriam looked up and half smfl-games, frolicked, and fooled. And, with that eighth scase women have,
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Marseilies, Havre, London, Hamed. It was the tall young man. she knew that was head over happy days, just two years ago.
burg, Potterdam, Antwerp & Hull "I suppose so," she answered. Marseilles & London.
Dinner was over, and she had heels in love with her, and it made As then, darling, you have all my
But love. Roger."
She torn open the packet. In-1 Bombay. Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-strolled out on deck to find a com-Roger seem very far away.
It was a perfect it was not until the day before burg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall fortable chair.
night, full of stars that promised they reached Sydney that Tony side was a spray of frangipanni. Bombay, Marseilles & Lendor Marseilles,
London. Ham- Havre,
The water was gave any inkling of his feelings. She pressed it to her face, and burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp
& Hull moon later on.
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Before she knew it, tears, were in buzz, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall the sides of the ship, and the soft Tony suddenly burst out
"Miriam. May I ask a ques- & London. Marseilles Bombay,
her eyes. She suddenly felt weak, music of a gramophone. It was Bombay, Marseilles & London:
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all very peaceful, and Miriam felt tion?** like solitude. But apparently it was not to be.
"Lovely 'night, stars and all that sort of thing."
Miriam agreed. "Going far?" the asked.
"Sydney."
"Holiday?"
Young
man
"Sort of holiday." There was silence for a minute. Miriam suddenly felt curious.
"And you?" she asked.
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"Nice."
"Bot inclined to become boring." "Never feel like settling down Miriam asked.
He
"Oh, sometimes. smiled. Trouble is. T've never met anyone;
Tm who'd settle down with me. too crazy."
"Certainly mast be a trial" "What?"
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She knew what was "Certainty," she said.
"Your husband. Have you Kim 7′′
She did not answer for a ment. Then, "I think so." said softly.
looked 50
UD-
He caught her arm, and turned her face towards him. She felt a come crashing down; his ambition
would die within him. little afraid, he
'Her mind was in a whirl as she wontedly serious.
"Miriam." he said, "Miriam, I looked at the spray of frangipanni. How like Roger to remember that. know I'm crazy, and I know you're married, and this probably sounds Somehow, she could not remember the most awful nonsense you ever anything about their hardships, listened to for I've never done it she could not recall how before. But will you. could you. thing had grated on her some time or other, that is, when in their days of misfortune. everything's cleared up and you're
But Tony? Could she turn back Dot busy-would YOU-marry
now? She thought of everything me?"
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every-į
nerves
3 con-
The deck started turning slow-he had to offer her. Money, Life ly. and a great torrent of water of ease and amusement, seemed to be rushing somewhere stant entertaining_companionship. in the distance Far away, ever And Roger. With Roger she would so far. Miriam heard a little voice have to be his inspiration, his help, she hardly recognised say "Yes" through hardships and adversity. "Oh, it depends how you look at and the next moment she was be But surely, she reflected, those had It It's got some compensations.
ing kissed in broad daylight, be-been her intentions when she had You can ask a girl her
fore breakfast, and before the married him. What had got into her that she had wanted to leave straight off without offending her."
chief steward. "Miriam." she said. It was no
"You see, darling." said Miriam.him? She could not leave him! to go to him use resisting.
"I simply must tell Roger myself. She would have It wouldn't be fair not to, and Have to tell Tony that she could
never be his. The would expect it, anyway."
"All right." Tony had answered.
name
"Is that all?" "The second name is Missing-
ham**
J
He
"Missingham. laugher. What an absurd name. It's what I've been doing for year. I think
I call you Hittingham."
"Hyde. Tony Hyde."
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"As you like," said Miriam. "And your name?”
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"I'll call you Dr. Jekyll"
He laughed again. “In that
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She saw Tony coming along the
and deck towards her,
quickly
And here they were ON their dried her eyes.
"Well, darling," Tony said, "we'll way back to Kavetu to tell Roger. And already, though they world soon be putting it to the old blis- not be there for three
ter." days. Miriam was beginning to be
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"Blister?**
little afraid. She krew what "Yes, blister. You know, singu- Roger would say. He would say.ar of blisters. Generally used as "Anything in the world to make a term of affection.. case we'll call off the Hittingham you happy." and he would grin. "T'd rather you didn't refer to business." He mused for a minute. And she knew that when he grin- Roger as an old blister,” she said,
she rather stiffly. red she would cry, because Miss Miriam Missingham.”.
"Sorry!" He noticed the frangi- would know what was behind the **MIS"
parni "Hullo, the old frange, eh?! grin.
But overrated She WAS watching
She tried her best to put these Rather pretty. thoughts out if her mind Tony stuff." He smelt it "Queer scent, through his body, and for a mo did his best, too, by giving a run-isn't it? Rather ke toothpaste." ment his face grew very old and ning description of what they "Like what?** grave. Then be recovered
"Toothpaste, Or the inside of him would do when they were married. į
To start off. a trip around theja dentist's surgery.” "Fanny." he said, "but the fast world. That, she had told
Something seemed to snap him. fifteen women I've fallen in love would be about enough for the Miriam's mind. She realised what
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A
go
with have all been married."
He was fooling; she knew that:
he had been shaken. She laughed.
moment
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ahe must do. She turned quickly, It all gave her a queer feeling, and looked Tony in the eyes.
"Tony" she said. “I can't marry an intense happiness, yet a little
"What!**
“I suppose you're always in love hammering of regret. She kept rot." with someone?**
wondering what would happen to. "Yes, and generally to no par Roger. But, it was no use Te pose. My last was Marlene. Die-gretting now. And, besides, how oh please, forgive me, but 1 can't”.
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happy she was going to be with It was autumn in Beverley Tony was Hills
She held out the spray of tran--it's something Fll never know.jold blister," he said, and laughed were Two days passed. They
Something I pay for because I've as he turned up the gangway. “Oh, you are road," said Miriam almost into Lombo, the port half gipani ""This.”
he “Don't you dance?”
They watched his waving hand It "Roger?" he asked, softly. She too much else, and because,” a day's sailing from Kavetu.
until it was swallowed up in the That sounds very like a hint was early when they got in, and nodded.
laughed, because I'm crazy.”
they {night. Then, "arm" "in" arın, he said, and led her to the danc-¡Miriam was on deck soon after “I still don't quite ..'
back to the car. ing door.
As the ship was drawing out of strolled sunrise. Somehow or other every- "Understand," she asked. "No,
"What a nice chap," said Roger, thing seemed changed. The bea-Touy, and I'm afraid "you never Kavetu late that night he shook
hands with Miriam.....
but rather azizsordinary----I-won- the will somehow.” As the days passed Miriam reiches were more golden, and
2 He looked serious, and for "Good-bye, Mirisan," he said, der why he called me an old blis alised that she was growing more palms looked romantic again. The
sorry and looked at Roger; "you don't ter? Amering"
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The suspected troublesomewhere. thought uneasily, because of Tony something I've missed altogether his hand, "Good-bye"
(THE END). Tony took it. "Good-bye, youl She had not been happler since that everything seemed fresh and in life-Missingham, reèiember?
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