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By Ruth Dewey Groves...
CHAPTER XVIII.
"I've lost my job," Jerry found herself saying. It surprised her. She hadn't meant to say any thing like that. It was no answer at all to an important proposal Yes, it was, too. She meant that she was unstrung, in no frame of mind to Kettle
N matter DA momentous as her marriage.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST " 20, 1920.
Iment, make her give up this crazy
idieu before she learned Alester Carstairs was not a marry that ing man....
"It was hopeless. The more he discussed it the more he realized that Jerry's disbelief in the last- the qualities of love and her fear of its temptations was genuine.
"WENHASTON DOOM."
HISTORIC RELIC REVEALED
BY RAIN.
Antiquarians and art-lovers are worrying about the future of an historie relic in the tiny Suffolk village of Wenhaston.
1
This is the "Wenhaston Doom," large painting of the Day of in the early primitive manner, Judgment, planned and executed probably by a 16th-century monk from the neighbouring priory of Blythburgh.
un
boards, which now hang on the
The Doom was painted
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Be felt compelled to warn her east wall of. Wenhaston Church. Baltimore and Ohio.. 137
even at the risk of incurring her The green light was on. Dananger. For the first time in his was accking his answer in her life he regretied his inability to half-averted eyes, hanging on her exercise tact. He tried to laugh next words. Her first utterance to start it off carelessly. And, filled him with misgivings; it; did not seem likely to preface an nereptance.
"Well, I hope when you start your campaign for a rich husband you, will look up the records of the eligibles before you take the dive" he said lightly, or as lightly as he could. He was placing himself in enviable position, knocking the other min. He hated that.
Jerry said nothing. The would have to continue, make it clearer.
carefully protected by n curtain, which is drawn aside for the bene fit of visitors,
a remarkable example of monastic rt, in its present condition, en be fully appreciated."
It is being asked whether such;
Discovered in 1892,
The Doom was discovered dur ing the restoration of the chancel in 1892. There was a large, white- washed partition, semi-circular de shape, roof, and almost reaching the "rom the channel from the nave.
"Wait until we get out of this," he and quickly. "Po sorry I was se abrupt, but I couldn't help it. I've hem holding it back so long,
Jerry smiled. It would be three weeks to-morrow night since they'd first met. The thought gave her courage. Surely they couldn't he
"Some of our richest, young men so, deeply in love with each other don't have the things they're most
This was removed, taken to in that short space of time as to famous for listed in the guides to pieces, and left overnight in the make it heartbreaking to part.
society," he said awkwardly, hop-churchyard. Heavy rain fell that They drove on in silence until ing she would understand without night and washed off some they had reached a place on River, the necessity of his calling Alester the plaster, under which some side Drive where Dan could parka blackguard in so many words.
painted antique figures were dis- the car. A magnificent view of the
Jerry tart Hudson river was before them but She sensed something of the mean-
at him blankly, | covered, neither gave it a thought.
ing behind his words. But the idea that Dan should be speaking ill of anyone hardly, seemned be- livable.
Dan insisted that Jerry look at him. Holding her eyes with his own he asked her if she loved any- one else. That question Jerry could answer without hesitating.
"Please don't talk to me about love, she evaded. “It's only a pit fall."
Dan might have laughed at her if his badn't Respons
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"Why should people always think that rich young
are bad?" she asked, trying to keep the canversation in an impersonal win. She suspected that it would turn to Alester Carstairs if Dan spoke his mind freely.
"That's not what I'm trying to
of
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WEDDING · PENSIONS.
LEAD MEN TO MARRY.
panel paintings of the Doom in MR. CAIRNS.ON WOMEN WHO, England, one of the finest being in Gloucester Cathedral, but the Wenbaston Doom is particularly interesting because the Holy Rouil is attached to it.
become such a hopeless victim offy." Dan returned quietly. "Jerry, Judge above, seated on the rain-- The painting shows the living the trader passion. As it was the If you must know, have one rich, with the Virgin and St. interpreted he answer to mean young man in partiedar in John the Baptist kneeling close by,
the hud mover - experienced] mind. I'd hate in see a girl who mating love. If that werf wanted marriage fall in love with so, then she couldn't be in love him, unless she wore of his awa with Alester unless.
station in life."
· that
love
"Why do you say that?" he asked
Jerry's colour now became as sharply. Have you ever come to vivid as a peony, grief through loving someone?".
Don't you think you ought to Mentally he swore an asth that | call me Mias Ray?" she said, wani he'd choke the fe out of Alester fur, to hurt him because he had Carstairs if he'd made Jerry suffer hurt her.
"I've never been in love," Jerry) "No, I don't Dan answered,
said and now she dropped her eyes."unless you insist upon it. A man Dan reached out and sized her ran't think formully of a girl he hands.
Inves as I love you, Jerry.”
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|
in
supplication fur the sins
of kinet. Immediately below on the left stands St. Michael, weighing good or justice, the gun deeds being (deeds againsť bud in the scales
represent la
a small nude human figure, whilst two demons waits the figure of Satan. represent evildoing. Beside him
A large number of, women sought the advice of Mr. J. A, R. Cairns, the Thames magistrate, troubles. recently about matrimonial)
married emple separated under The warrant officer said that there were between 600 and 700)
order of the court in the district.)
Some of the comments
of Mr. Cain's during the cases were:
The police court is not infre amity. quently the threshold to domestic)
marriage is for wise men and wise women and not for babies hardly out of their 'Teens."
I have said scores of times that
1. was attacked quite recently in the newspapers, by letter, and;
Preserving From Decay, On the right is St. Peter with society people because I'inade his keys, receiving four redeemed perfect tragedy of marriage. It is some sardonic observation on the souls. One wears a kingly crown, simply appalling. It is a common- one is a queen, one a bishop and place that my district is a joke. | one a'cardinal,
Farther to the
Young women know young men right is shown for seven days or seven weeks and. the Castle of Heaven, with let them into matrimony. angel, at the gate admitting
and they think they have a pormanent, left, however, the unfortunate lostome all the days of their life.
The Sergeant: Yes, sir, a sori
monial pension...
"I want to marry you, Jerry," he "Then you'd better fake mo said. "I've never before felt like one," she told him quickly; "and this about a girl.
But when 1, and I don't think we should gathered you up out of the debris er each other again," of that wreek and held voo while, Dan stared hard at the haughty your breath came back and your profile she turned to him. How eyelids dufteyed open after I had dared she look like that-the cold- begun to believe we had killed yonblooded little Fortune hunter! His I get the first bunch that I'd met own features took on a coldness blessed soul. Ôn the only girl I'd ever want
to to equal her own and he faced spend the rest of me life with."
Jerry pulled her lunds away, "You wouldn't want a girl who didn't love you more than anything else in the world, would you?" she asked.
the extreme
about to start the motor and movere being shoved into the aws of pension. Mr. Cairns: Yes, matri-
off with the first abandonment of of Hell,
are in driving that Jerry had ever seen him show.
The painting is full of vigour, admirable in drawing and most bedellate in colour.·
The silence between them came oppressive. Dan broke it, not far from her home.
"So" Dan said. "But I thought
1 hnd a wild idea that you "know you despise me for - felt as I did."
kaneking." he dared out unexpert- "But you shouldn't," Jerry criedly: "but you're such blind
IL in protest. "I never encouraged idiot I've got to do it. Why ena'i you understand that an idle young FOU."
"That's right," Dan agreed. "If whelp like well, like Aleste I hadn't Been a fool I wouldn't Carstairs, for instance, hasn't as have imagined that you'd listen to much chance to escape common me. But you know, Jerry. for a templations as a fellow who is too Hittle while last Sunday, I thought busy fo spend his time with pretty
.ee here, you say you aren't girls?"
in love. Do you think there's anything better than that?"
derey smiled, a surface smile. Jerry remained silent for a mo- "Well," she said, "I don't know ment.
whether you consider me so very "Yes," she said, "I do. I want a pretty bat at any rate you appear- future that's secure. Marrying a
ed to have a lot of time to hang noor man is too big a risk. You don't seem to be any busier around camp, and you're here. seen the romatice of a lut of marriages wash away in the Than Alester,
"That isn't fair," Dan objectml. "I'm busy, all right, but I'd chuck Dan, too, sat silent a momenty job with Carstairs if it weren't before answering. Finally:
dishapa."
“I see?" he said heavily, "You
want to murry money.”""
for you."
1
"What have I to do with it?" Jerry snapped,
when he thought he had to order He was going a little bit too far his life to allow him to be hur
haperon.,
A swift rush of colour mounted to Jerry's cheeks as she caught hint of opprobrium in his voice,
What right and be ter pícncb| her? Was his mother's sauf stary-be told her grimly, "You've been
"I'm trying to save your neck,"
ed for beauty! Did she carry pails wanting to go up in the ship with
doomed by family selfishness?
of wafer to plants that were him, haven't you?" he added -80.
fore she could stop herself. abruptly that Jerry answered be
Maybe, but if it were true Dan Harvey was both blind und gelish
to be forgetting it. Of course there was the prospect that he
He's promised to take me," she
said.
"That's why Pai sticking until
came from a better home than she, he learns to fly," Dan explained. In that case, how could be know "The reckless young pup would the bitterness of poverty, the take you up right now if Edlet agly, dwarfing effect it had upon him, and he hasn't even got a a person?
"Yes," she said proudly. "I want to marry money."
Dan looked at her with abject misery eating at his heart. He .enderslond, of course, that she wanted to marry Alester Carstairs. God, what an awakening she was in for!
"Jerry, Jerry," he pleaded. "You don't know what you are talking about. Why, virl, if you did that you'd miss all that we are born for."
license,"
"And you haven't got a license either, to be saying things about
Weahaston is very proud of i Doom, all does not desire to see any restoration of the picture,
On the other hand, there is no dubt that, without interfering with the Doom, steps might be: taken to preserve it from decay, for Bow, that the whitewash his been removed it is possible that in time the colour may disappear and nothing be left hat a faint outline of the picture.
LETTER GOLF.
letter golf. Par›is fen.
STICK CANDY is hard, even in
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CANDY
him." Jerrý cried in exasperation.change one word to another and 1. The idea of letter golf is to So that was why she hadứt been do it in par, a given number of up in the silver plane! She had strokes. Thus to change COW to watched it winging its way over-HEN, head many times after it had been ROW, HEW, HEN.
In three strokes, COW, repaired and longed to Ay in it. 2. You can change only one door. Jerry almost expected the
Dan slid the car to a stop at her letter at a time. tyres to burst. Dan's shoulder word, of common usage, for each touched hers as ho opened the door jump, Slang words and abbrevia on his side of the car. The con-tions don't count,
He had a vain hope that alie tact ran like fire through Jerry's could be interested in love even if nerve.
she had not experienced it. If he
3. You must have a complete
4-The order of letters cannot-
be changed.
An impulse, startling and primi-
(To be Continued.)
could but and words to save her tive, selzed upon her.
pride, to prevent her disillusion-
One solution is printed o another page.
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