THE HUSBAND
HUNTER
BY
RUTH DEWEY GROVES
CHAPTER XXVIII
"I may be late." Phillipa thought of the words time and again, as six o'clock came, six-thirty, seven, seven-thirty, and Alan had not appeared to take her to dine.
She grew fretful, and rebuffed her mother's attempts to talk with her. The one black look she gave her father silenced him when he offered a sulky greeting to her in
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A PLEA FOR YOUTH.
am willing to go back to A strong demand that "old men" Canada with him if necessary, or should make way for youth in No, she didn't." Alan told her live in England. I still love him." business was made recently by Sir. shortly, but Phillipa sensed that This was the statement made at Charles Higham. there was a great deal more be-North London by Kathleen Nancy
in the words than he wanted her Chapple, now 18 years of age, and He also advocated the holding of
rond, Holloway, living with her parents at Hornsey-a mass meeting at the Mansion
House, where he was speaking, of, She gave evidence in a case in advertisers and sellers to discuss which Jesse Walter Curtis, $7, means of meeting foreign competi solicitor's clerk, was charged with tion in trade. forgery, fraudulent conversion and abduction.
to know.
Alan's mind for the hundreth time Her question had brought up in a certain query. Had Natalie, or had she not, been on the verge of her and Florence? asking him to stay and dine with
Another thing; he could almost
Misa Chapple told how, when she
The occasion was the presenta- Mayor of the cup given annually by tion to Sir Charles by the Lord members of the Publicity Club of London to the person whom they service to advertising during the
the kitchen, where she was putting ear that she had wanted him to left school, at the age of 15, in 1927, kiss her when they met at the she obtained a situation at Jennens Mr. and Mrs. West had decided station. He wished now that he and Jennens, solicitors, of Kentish consider has rendered the greatest
had; probably wouldn't have an-Town-road. being
engaged by couldn't Curtis, who was the managing clerk,
not to interfere with her. Both knew she would not tolerate it, and Mrs. West had begged, that for Phillipa's own good, they let her alone. "She'll leave if we quarrel with her any more, and I want her here, where I can keep an eye on her, at least part of the time," she had said.
Mr. West had snorted and kept his peace. All that Phillips had
said to Alan' about
her parents was said to serve her purpose re-
gardless of the truth.
Her mother saw she was upset, and wanted to comfort her. It cut her to the heart to have Phillipa spurn her sympathy. She felt that she had in some manner failed her girl, little dreaming the truth that Phillipa, while of her lesh and blood, was no more kindred to her in spirit than the veriest stranger The air of the household had grown difficult to breath by eight o'clock, It seemed charged with a poison that set nerves un edge and impulsed quick answers.
other chance. And he forget that warm, eager, reaching handclasp she had given him; the slight swaying of her body toward him, and the instant her eyelids had covered her eyes and hid what they had to tell.
Sailed for Canada.
she said, "the solicitor who con "In the early summer of 1928," ducted the businesa disappeared, and the other clerks left.
"Curtis carried on the business, and I was alone with him.
"At the end of July he said he was going abroad, and asked me if I would accompany him."
She consented, and on August 2❘
All the time she lived with him only two evenings a week, and she he treated her well, but he was free
was lonely.
year.
"
"We are at War."
praise of his publicity work during Referring to the Lord Mayor's
the war, Sir Charles said:
We are at war now, and a lot of us don't realise it.
"It is a more difficult war than a real war. It is a war of trade, and we are not doing all we should do to win it.
"The greater weapon-advertis- 18-is not being used as we should use it. We are not pooling our sales knowledge in the fight. We the need of pushful selling." must really 'Wake up England to
"We need to combine the old spirit of the Merchant Adventurers with the mighty power of modern advertising and selling, then we can whack the world.
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A WEAKNESS, FOR "GLAD RAGS."
Perhaps it might have been dif- ferent: he might have braved her displeasure and kissed her if Flor- ence had not been there. He had wondered then, and he wondered now, what Natalie's family thought i of him. Mrs. Jayhunter wanted a they sailed for Canada as man and Natalie, of course. But reconciliation between him and wife, continued the girl. She knew had acted strangely.
Florence he was a married man.
most unusual way for Florence to The girl had been different-a be. But then she was thinking of What Nutalie had told her on the truin. Faced with the possibility that Alun would refuse to become
Cable to Parents. He suggested that she should conciled with her, Natalie had write or send a cable to her parents been forced to tell Florence of their and they sent a cable between them. uble. And she had warned Flor-hen the reply came he arranged ence against being affectionately for her passage home, He was to think that she'd been put up to it. demonstrative with him, lest he follow later.
Sir Charles suggested that the Sergeant Peacock said Curtis was Mansion House meeting should dis- deported from Canada as an unde-cuss ways and means "of "beating Mrs. Jayhunter had tried to sirable, Through her
and Was arrested at the Germans and the Americans mind there went a continuous reeling Natalie on her return home, but
keup Florence from accompany Greenock, Scotland, on his arrival.
at the game they are going to play." She was of pictures of Alan and Natalie, to Natalie preferred to have her. She searching for him for two years, the suggestion were put into con- ingley, Leeds. She attributed her
The police, he said, had been
Mrs. Clare Teresa The Lord Mayor replied that if Wilkinson, aged 35, late of Head- gether here, there, everywhere.
had a dread, that fairly made her and bail was strongly objected to. She could not console. herself
crete form, and it appeared to him bankruptcy to personal extrava- with the possibility that the train would want
sick, of failing with Alan. She Curtis was sent for trial, bail likely to be of benefit to the coun-gance and money borrowed at a Natalie's train, was late. She had
someone, even Flor- being refused.
try, he would support it.
high rate of interest. meet the called up the Grand Central Sta-ence, with her then. tion, and learned it had come in
ness? thing but
costs of her intervention in a. divorce action.
It was all the strain that Phil- lipa was labouring under, throwing a cloud over those who came in contact with her.
on time.
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Ten minutes after eight she was getting wild. Then Alan camce She saw him, from a window, jump out of a taxicab and pay the driver, with a wave of the hand that she knew meant the man was to keep the change.
all barriers between two persons As it takes a great crisis to level who have failed in understanding, in most cases. at least, and there missed their moment of rushing to- was none for this, Natalie and Alan gether with all else but their love
forgotten.
blinded by her loveli-
"We must welcome, not resent, new ideas. We must give youth its chance.
WIDOW'S ADMISSIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.
A widow who came up for public examination in bankruptcy at Leeds admitted to the Official Receiver that she had a weaknes+, for "glad rags."
Mansion House Meeting? Later in the day, Sir Charles Mr. Wilkinson'stated that she She gave him her hand in part-wrote to the Lord Mayor suggesting had been left £750 a year provided ing, and Alan trembled over it. He that the proposed Mansion House she did not marry again, and her let it go quickly.
meeting should be representative creditors would receivé, accord- with Phillips, of the way Natalie's industries, including shipping, coal, sum of £500 a year, and would He thought, as he walked along of heads of all the leading British ing to an arrangement made, the expression had changed then. He stcel, iron, textiles, &c., and every-all be paid in full Natalie was chilled to the heart wished he knew what thought had one else concerned. with
disappointment. She
She agreed with the official had flashed through her mind.
His idea is that it should receiver, Mr. Clifford Bowling, hoped that Alan would take her in Well, he certainly looked happy his arms when they met and kiss it was impossible for him to hang movement to the need and the rags." and owed, amongst other Good lord, couldn't she guess that formulate a "Wake Up England" that she had a weakness for "glad Seemed to have not the slightest her until she'd have to beg him on to her hand and keep his head? method of extending exports, and items, 1879 for clothing. idea of having committed an of- fence. Phillipa was so glad to see
to stop.
But suppose he wasn't expected to that the meeting should invite the him that suddenly she was a bit less her return, she would have to ask were willing to let bygones be by- Isles to offer their collective ser-husband died six years ago. She- Now, if anything was to come of keep his head? Suppose she really best selling brains in the British clerk at a Leeds hotel, and her She was formerly a reception ready to pounce on him; though she him to forgive her. She was will-gones? could cheerfully have wiped the
vices.
Ihad no intention of remarrying. smile off his face with a resounding to do that, but her dream of a - A touch of panic seized him. Had.
"The Department of Overseas The respondent in the divorce perfect reconciliation was over. It he spoiled, everything? It was all Trade, as that part of his Majesty's suit in which . ing alap.
she. intervened She hurred to her room, and couldn't ever be what she had a mess, but they might find a way Government. which deals with ex- became bankrupt in 1927, and she permitted her, mother to admit hoped.
- On
out if Natalie didn't give up. port, should be invited to the way up to
co was then pressed for payment by Alan, knowing that neither would
He only half heard what Phillipa operate," he added, "but the move-
the be likely to say anything that would in Alan's car, which he had been
moneylenders who had was saying to him. embarrass her. Besides, she would keeping in New York, she talked
ment should be a business move-advanced the costs of the action. ment. not give them time. She wanted with forced ease, telling Alan of only a moment or two to collect Andrew, and why she had brought herself, along with her hat and Florence along. Not, however, as wrap, before returning to the liv-Florence would have told it. The younger girl would have said ing room.
When 'Alan saw her, the fire had frankly that she was pursuing the gone out of her eyes, the hard, set young man.
to
Hillshire,
look from her lips. She was pen- But Florence was bobbing around sively quiet, but not martyr-like in the tonneau with the hand lug- enough to be irritating. Remem-gage. This was not Natalie's ar- bering what Natalie had done
rangement, but a matter of neces- Alan, she wanted him to think that,ity, since Florence had climbed she, Phillipa, had implicit trust in in before she could offer a word him.
of objection, and it being ridiculous to crowd in after her when there was so much more room in front.
But it was hard for her to keep from stamping her foot and de- manding to know what he meant
Every foot of the drive was poig nantly familiar to Natalie,' She and
by keeping her waiting like that. Alan had been over the route many Especially, as she saw in his eyes times. She wondered if he recalled a light that reflected bubbling those times, too.
spirita.
Alan, touched by her attitude, glance at him.
Frequently she stole a sidelong felt that an explanation of his tar- not much, but enough to hurt her. He had changed;. diness was due her, even though There was a worn, haggard look he had prepared her to expect it about him. Perhaps she took a little
"I had to take Natalie home," he too
much responsibility for It
said simply, as they walked a few unto herself, not knowing that Alan blocks to a restaurant where they had lost a great deal of sleep tak- had eaten once or twice.
Phillipa maintained a silence in Phillipa out.
At any rate, it softened her feel-
to invite him
which she somehow, kept from beings toward him still further. It ing sullen; perhaps because she almost caused her tucked her hand in his arm for to stay to dinner. But he hadn't kissed her. She couldn't forget
answer.
"She had her sister Florence with that. Oh, if he'd only kissed her her," he added, and Phillipa tucked in spite of everything! her arm a little tighter.
Another thing that caused her
"It would have been beaatly to to hesitate--the desire to have him let them go up there alone to that remain did not leave her was that house," Alan went on, and was not Alan showed no sign of wanting to aware that he was speaking apolo-stay. Although he did, very much. getically.
"You had the furnace startedIt would have been like opening didn't you?" Phillipa asked, and up the rates of paradise to him. she said it pleasantly.
But on his mind was his promise to Phillipa to return. He see how much he wanted to stay. dreadfully afraid that Natalie would and, perhaps out of pity, tell him he might.
"Oh yes, yes, of course, But there were certain little things that I should have looked after before." Phillipa smiled. She knew he was not looking at her. If his gaze
was
That would be disastrous. He
was anywhere in particular, it was couldn't fail Phillipa, and if he re-
up toward the star-springled sky.
"And you had the maid there,tain to misunderstand and not ask
fused Natalie, she would be cer-
and the 'groceries?" she queried,
"Naturally I did everything Nat-
'alfe asked me to do,"
him again.
He was tempted, as he was tak Alan aning his reluctant departure, to tell
But.
-sered. "But you know how it is, her some lie about a dinner engage-
Phillips, coming back to a house ment with "one of the boys." that's been closed up, I had to see the searching quality of her eyes her through it.".
made such prevaricating unthink-
"Didn't she ask you to have din-able.. ner with them?" Phillips could not suppress this sarcasm.
Lord, what a beauty she was! How could he ever have been any-
(To Be Continued)
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