THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1940
THE SHIP THAT SAILED
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of a lavish host and was about to speed the parting guest with urbane courtesy. She meant no more than that. She would never mean to him any more than that.
Below was the liner, shimmering white on the tinted water, and already her en gines were throbbing, Hermione could hear them through, the stillness.
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In half an hour, twenty minutes, sho would be again on the quay, joining her fellow passengers, embarking in the launch which would take them back, yet · alone,
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With all her heart she wished that sho had never agreed to those hours, of pre- tence which seemed to her only bitterness.
And then the car Jarred. to an abrupt standstill. Before she was aware of it ahe found that his arms were round her.
"Are you daring, to tell me that you'd let anyone else be in your life but me?"- Forsythe was demanding, and in the an ger which she realised had overcome him, she felt him shaking her as if she had been a rat and he a terrier.
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His fingers bit into her arms and she squealed with pain,
"Tell me the truth."
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"Let me go,”, she said furiously. He flung her from cushions of the car.
him against the
"I might have known. Fool that I am. Naturally there'd be someone else."
His clenched fist beat on the steering wheel of the car. To her surprise she sow that the knuckles were' white under strain.
the
She looked up at his face timidly, and he looked down at her and tried to smile. In that instant she saw him as a stranger. He was not the cynical host of that sunny day, nor did he seem any longer the 'play- boy' she had scornfully named him to herself. There was a new strength under his wry mask, and as well, which she had never visioned.
suffering,
"I'm sorry," he apologised. "It was un- pardonable. And I've gone and spoilt it all. I'd planned it so carefully,"
"Planned?" The words caught her at- tention. We met by accident."
"By accident I heard you were on this cruise. I took a 'plane to get here before you," he told her. "I thought if I could get you to myself for a few hours. but there it is."
"Oh!" she said. "Oh!"*
And then she found that her heart was beating again at an astonishing speed.
He paused for a moment and then went on, mockingly.
"Bit of a fool I've made of myself, one way and another. I thought I might still stand a chance. But I didn't mean to spoil
this... it's my damnable jealousy."
"You-jealous! That I do call a joke,” she said bitterly.
"Its always been one of my worst fall- ings," he confessed. "Usually, I've been able to hide it. But you got me on the raw, and unexpectedly. Sometimes excit- ing... sometimes fun
... sometimes dangerous!'"*
There was fury ́again-In his tone as he quoted. And more than fury.
But he regained control of himself. "We must hurry, you'll miss the launch," he said.
Her eyes flickered to his wrist-watch. "And you. ... you will go back to Eng- land?"
"Yes, Believe it or not, I'm working now."
"What?" she said incredulously.
"I'm helping, in a Settlement Scheme. In a year I shan't own a foot of idle land."
them. There was a silence between Minute. after minute was ticking away on the wrist-watch Hermione could, still sco Below lay the liner. Already the lights were commencing to gleam dully through some of the portholes.
"I want to hear about it," said Her- mione, her eyes following the hands of the watch.
"I'm afraid there isn't time."
She settled herself a little more .com-- förtably in the scat, as if she was deter- mined to prolong their companionship to the last possible moment.
"So the interlude, is finished?"
Again it was as if she had flicked him on the raw. Delightedly she know him wince. But he spoke with compliment.
"I shall score over you," he told her, "for I shall have no fear of ever finding the memory of it boring." -
Again she Again there was silence, seemed deliberately prolonging the part- Ing.
She leaned forward suddenly. "Look!"
Across the bay a launch was speeding out to the liner,
"Do you realise I've missed it?" She broke into peals of laughter. "You'll have to buy me a complete out- fit. All I'm left with is a powder puff!”
He turned to her.
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"That is at least a husband's privilege,
discarded.. even though I'm practically And anyway, Hermione, I've played a rot- ten trick on you. My watch is ten min- utes .slow."
There was again a silence. But a curi- ous tautness faded from Forsythe's face as she slid her hand into his. Her fingers were warm and caressing.
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"I know," she said contentedly. noticed that this morning. I was pleased that you still wear, it even if it does not keep good time."
The There was a blare from the syren. liner swung round slowly; in a glitter of golden light they watched her nose her way through the purple shadows towards the open sea.
ON STOCK EXCHANGE
London, To-day. Early firmness on the Stock Ex- change yesterday was not maintained owing to the extreme quietness of trading but gilt-edged recovered to around the opening levels. Most other groups showed small net losses: Wall Street was higher. Reuter.
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SEVEN ATTACK 80
London, To-day.
An R.A.F. patrol of seven Hurricanes attacked 80 Ger- man 'planes over the battle- field in front of Paris and shot down five.
This battle is particularly note- worthy because the pilots are. all from the Auxiliary Air Force, com- posed of businessmen who fly for fun during the week-ends in peace-time.
In the words of one pilot, however, they are "used to heavy odds and even when these are 10 to 1 they just wade in."--Reuter.
NO HOLIDAYS
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THE
LONDON, TO-DAY. PARLIAMENTARY SECRE-. TARY TO THE MINISTRY OF LA- BOUR REPORTED IN THE COM-. MONS YESTERDAY THAT THERE HAS BEEN A MAGNIFICENT RES- PONSE ΤΟ THE GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR A GENERAL, POST- PONEMENT OR CANCELLATION OF HOLIDAYS DURING THE CRISIS, SO THERE WILL BE NO INTERFERENCE WITH MUNITIONS PRODUCTION
AND TRANSPORT WILL BE LEFT AS FREE AS POS- SIBLE FOR EVACUATION AND CIVIL DEFENCE NEEDS.
Production had been greatly ac- celerated, he said, "but we 'must be- ware of any slackening as far as is humanly possible and we must con- tinue for some time to come at the same high pressure."
Nevertheless, he added, arrange- ments should be made to provide rest périods. Reuter. --
SECRET DEBATE ON HOME DEFENCE
London, To-day.
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The secret session of the House of home defence, Commons to debate which was postponed on Tuesday, is now to be held on June 20, stated Mr. C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy-Seal,-in-the. Commons yesterday.
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There is also to be a secret session of the House of Lords on June 20 on home defence.
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