THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936
THE PRESIDENCY OF MARRIED
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They were married from Cher- ry's aunt's double-fronted house
own golf matches and cricket in the best street, and upon the matches. They got up parties for social see-saw, in Clapham, how The third most-talked-of the young men, who had of late Cherry's aunt went down, how i Republican possibility is grown off-hand and casual, but Ida's mother went up! Colonel Knox, of Chicago, they could now afford to be. There Cherry was a nice little man, whose chief asset is that he was no more fighting for partners rather roundabout, and always be was once one of the great Teddy at the entrance to the Gym loved by men, who were prepared Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." Young men came late and made to go to all lengths and even lend; and therefore, ipso facto. a a leisurely selection, Under this him money. bluff hearty fellow bound to glut of women they had it all their Cherry had always hoped to ret things done. Feeling that own way.
mary" one day and settle down, Jenough Presidential candidates:
and drink less, and have babies. were impregnating the air with Everything had changed out of He thought himself the luckiest their political wisdom, he has all recognition. except Mrs. retired to the wilderness
fellow on earth when he met Ida,, Mrs. Cleverly was still who fulfilled in every detail to Cleverly.
the shoot mountain lions, thus em- one of those lucky women whe
girl of his boyhood's dreams. For similarity suggest no age whatever to the two months they were deliriously between himself and T.R., who mind of man.
Her lazy, pretty happy. iras a big game hunter as well voice still made poignant observa- much as he did on the journey He had never laughed as as a great President.
tions that were wafted round Ran East, watching the effect of the Then the taxpaper is begin goon by these people who had no-
tropics on Ida, and the funny! ning to realise that money thing of their own to say. But
things she thought of Every cannot be produced out of the of late Mrs. Cleverly had got
thing in the garden was abso- air by some Treasury sleight- little exclusive, and unless you jof-hand, but has to come ulti- knew her fairly wall, the chances lately wonderful, until a jolly old buffer called Grey gave a dinner mately from his pockets. Con- were you never found her..
party to which they were both gressmen who had over-ridden ¦
Mrs. Cleverly did make bidden, and at the dinner party were surprised at the number hat she wanted from life. and Jock Chance.
She had got Ida found herself sitting next to of protests they received.
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weed-like growth bureaucracy, which the Repuh saw quite a lot of her. Time most popular doctor. He attract- licans also attack, is emphasised had been kind to Barbara, for all ed Ida at once, because he looked by the existence of several ensearing ones, and now at thirty-
her worries and trials had been rather forlorn and lonesome.
Ida set herself out to amuse dozen of what are known as are she had a girlish, uncreased him, plecing together alphabetical agencies.
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had quick loans for Xylophones look about her still. Will adored ments of rumours she had heard. and Zithers." said ex-President er. It did you good, said Mrs. He had a very gay wife, who did Marseilles. Hare, London, Ham Hoover, "we'd have exhausted Cleverly, to see those two together. not come East, who had once had
burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull the alphabet."
Billy boy was at school in England, a wonderful firtation at Bombay, Marseilles & London,
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Jock was anew, all dewy and fresh with the alcoholic.
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in any of its forms, until he met Ida ernor Landon is chosen to re-body," said Mrs. Cleverly.
She swept him off his feet! present the Republicans he will Barbarz said, "I sometimes He had been lonely and disillusion- know all about the matter, for wonder if I was wise to bring Kansas is the State in which out. There are such a lot America's central Sahara is in things you don't want them danger of forming. The learn about too soon." trouble is that most
Her eyes followed Pam, dancing refuse to admit that the land is in the Gym with one of those nice where with Ida. News of it reach- being blown away from beneath clean young men, who blossom and May at home, and she SAILINGS their feet. A friend of mine the staffs of the big firms and out at once.
arrived recently from a trip have prospects but no ready cash, time when, however little a woman West. with nerves on edge. He and such loving hearts had been driving with a Kan-
inevitable blonds, "Sooner or later they've got to past, the thought of his going of your voice and I love your hands,,ing Lady, an san when a dust storm thick as
and I love everything about you. round the lakes in his But one doesn't La London fog came racing to them realising it all too soon, and in
Is your wife jealous, do you think, 'Ello... 'Ello..." said Huey. wards
Jock? Does she know about you them. His Kansas understanding about things like May arrived
"Now then, cheer up, old friend, when the fact was called Jock Chance. and May and Ida
She was frankly forty, and for and me?"
chap...." He had obviously cheer- to his attention. exclaimed: King.
laughed. I expect she led up himself quite a lot earlier "Nonsense, there are
It's all so sordid. isn't some reason she hadn't worn well. Now is
no dust it?"
and she had got, of late, a creas. knows, but, good Lord, she isn't in the evening. "Wash wrong the time to visit
storms in this State"-and Mrs. Cleverly said, "Oh.
welled and untidy look. Fattish she jealous! She never cared twopence with you, of chap? Look like a She was out after large week of wet days, thas what you Clustralia & New Zealand on through it at forty There is really no harm in Ida. was, and rather plaintive, and she
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Yankee enterprise is billed as 2 that piece of information the bet
and not wanting to go about...."(anything that mattered with any tourist attraction.
She asked, with a woman's mor- body.... They stood side by side, ter it is.... One has to be sorry. She found Rangoon changed out bid curiosity: Republicans will not have to for poor May, of course.... But of all recognition, and her husband
Cherry sunk in gloom, Huey steep- for campaign if she had known what a fool she changed, too.
"Were you happy when you ed in bonhomie, looking out over He did not greet
were first married?"
the courtyard, and presently across was a bit sooner, how much she her with the rapture she had
"Yes.... I loved her better than the courtyard a figure came, un- would have been spared, don't you half expected at her change
of anything in the world. But she certainly... A think?"
heart. He left her, now, as much hated me and was always wanting rather wispy figure, with that large, fattish; NEAREST APPROACH Barbara sat knitting, but now And what was so awful, of course, I can't imagine what she has come men who grow careless, in middle alone as, of old, she had left him to go away, so in the end I let her. creased look that comes, to WO- Regular Monthly Sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan TO MECHANICAL MAN and her nice young man, at Ida was Huey. Huey sometimes way back for now....”.
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"Funny how all the wrong peo- "Ah..." said Huey..... "Now It had nodded, but he actually avoided pie marry one another, isn't it?" you wouldn't believe it, would you, (Continued from Page 5)
the affair of the season. gone on for so long that people her. She had fought against the said Lda, stroking his face with but thash Mrs. Chance, and once almost accepted it.
knowledge for a long time, but her soft little Engers.... "You upon a time she Wonderful Feat
Ida was little and fair and now she had to face the fact that and I could have been so happy damn fine-looking woman... From the end of the first mile fluffy. She was nothing out
he did. He went away when he together." to the beginning of the last, he the way to look at, but she was
can take that from me.... saw her coming. He refused in. did not
The kindly trees hid them from vary more than 5-2-5awfully gay. Bubbling over with vitations if he knew she was going the big white zoon that peered figure bleakly and wondered why Cherry regarded the distant secs., a trully wonderful feat, par-fun, Ida was, in a rather dreary to be there also.... She often sat down. pale-faced, over the roofs the Hades, If that ticularly when one gives considera- world of disillusionment and over- alone, holding her head in both of the dhobie kuta
Inside the Chance, she did not keep her hus ition to the unruly wind and
Its production. It
hands, wondering about Huey....Gym, Cherry King obviously
wandered band at home. He would have effect on
For the whole thing had been around, schedule running. I can add, too, that got you.
consequential ways and her gaiety mystery to her, from Alice's death looking for ida.
disconsolate and alone,issid so but for his inability to She was like
She that, unlike Nurmi, Eston did not
wouldn't discuss anything that mattered carry a watch. There is a lot of young round puppy-not perhaps/Onwards. She had felt so sure he dance with him for she said he with anyone at all. nonsense about this watch-carry luring because of its youth
pedigree stock but infinitely al-would take her then. But Huey leapt like a lobster trying to escape Huey poked him in
and just didn't. He wrote occasional from the pot.
the ribs ing business, and if any checking its fun, so that you forgave it all
He was miserable facetiously with one finger.... by saying he would come home and as the devil and all messed up at "I shay, you do look like a week is to be done it should be by Captain Cherry King, on leave they must meet again, and then the turn things had taken. someone posted at the quarter-and most unwillingly paying
of wet days. Ten to one it's a he stopped writing altogether, and mile stage, rather than
Wish to God- I'd never brought woman. If a man. lookah like a by the
visit to his Aunt Lacy in Clapham the next thing she heard was that her to this damn place," he said, week of wet days it's nearly al- |rummer,
because she was his god-mother he had been home, and they hadn't and made for the bar. He had ways a woman.... Great mish- Eaton will now get down tol
and his people thought he ought met....
domesticated longed to be steady training for the Olympic)
and take, worrying about a woman.... |to, saw Ida'ín church, instilling And now she wandered about settle down and have babies and You can take it from me, old chap. Games, and hopes to make his gaiety even into Hymns Ancient alone, and there was Jock gazing drink less, but how can a man do If you lose one, there are always mark at -10,000 metres. It is and Modern, and instantly his in a moonstruck fashion into the any of these things when his wife plenty more.... Pleni-plenty more good to know that, quite unexpec- tedly, Britain has found at least
feelings about Clapham quite eyes of that flashy, common little is out all over the place, and half. Have a drink?"...
atmt nobody with the tinkling laugh...the night, with another man? Es one other man with 23
changed, and he made his
Cherry declined, and Huey de- Olympic
The world was all gone topsy-had reasoned with Ida till he felt parted with an air of hilarious chace. We now have hopes of quite anions about his health, winning at any of the track dis the way he insisted on going to turvy.
Vice being sick. All she did was collapse.... Plenty more.... He Down D# tances from 400 to 10,000 metres the Farish Bazaar and Mission
the tennis courts, cry, and beg him to let her leave was quite right about that, the Concert.
where the trees threw a kindly him for ever.
lold buder....He stood in the It-wrecked his aunt's prestige shadow that was like a.. mantle. He leaned against the bar, a doorway, watching the dancing. in the best street irrevocably, for Jock held Ida in his arms. She heart-broken morose little man Blonde girls, dark girls, pretty Ida wasn't anybody, even in Clap- put up her face to be kissed in with the round wistful face of a gíria," "plain wholesome-looking ham. Her people kept a nice the appealing chlidish way she hurt baby, and now he was aware girls. All tastes catered for........ boarding-house (liberal table), and}had——He said, huskly:
that someone had joined him. He He looked wistfully at the Hills they could not believe their eyes "Darling I can't think why you looked round and saw Huey Grey, going out together will leaning when they saw Captain King, and (care twopence for an old fellow fat, prosperous, genial: Huey on Barbara's arm, for of late his {until the very last moment it never like me.”....
whose life was one long alcohol-lame leg had grown more trouble- for a second, dawned on. Ida's)” “Are you old?” She stroked his day, who was an ardent supporter some. mother that his intentions were (hair...." You don't seem ary-age of theatrical companies and might jhonourable.
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