THE HUSBAND HUNTER
CHAPTER XL.
Natalie lips stifly the inevitable question.
what, "Alan?""
B
BY
AUTH DEWEY GROVES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930.
RAILWAY POSTER
WITTICISM.
LIVING ARTISTS IN THE PICTURE.
NOTED FIGURES.
Five or
of 'more
the most prominent living British artists, "So," he raved on, "becnusedepicted with intimate frankneAS framed you fiendishly substituted a rotten by a friend, forming the substance stock for a good one in that letter. of a widely posted railway adver- I've lost a small fortune," A grim tisement! laugh burst from his dry lips. "It
nsn't 80
elever, was it, forget- ting that I have a sense of honour even if you haven't? But the work was damined clever, I'll grant you
"Do
aneer: He answered with "Yes, I suppose I may expect you to try and bluff it out."
His laughing brown eyes were like dark agate, glinting coldly at her.
now
she
"I am not bluffing, Alan," said simply: "you will have to tell
me what you mean."
Alan laughed, shortly, con- see it temptuously, "Going to through along that line. are you? Innocence
accused. Very well, then, let's bring it out in the open and see what comes of it. I mean why did you change the name of the stock in that letter?"
that!"
It seemed
answer
This is the essence of the Under- ground's spring "witticism," which has just been placed on 176 board- ings on London stations.
The poster, representing artists now to Natalie that in a springtime country acene, is she must speak, must stop him by Mr. Philip Connard, the well- even must speak, must stop him,known R.A. Every figure in the even though she had to
foreground, except a little girl, is blindly, For she only partly understood the nature of the living artist. So far as can be charge he was bringing against judged the list portrayed includes:
Mr. Wilson Steer.
her.
"Don't, don't, don't," she cried imploringly. "Oh, Alan, you can't believe that I would touch one of your letters? Surely you can't be Natalie stared at him- prehendingly. Had he been even lieve that? Why, I didn't even
uncom-
a little less inflamed with anger, see a letter!"
accuracy
to
Mr. Adrian Stokes, R.A. Sir John Lavery, R.A.
1
Mr. Augustus John. A.R.A, Mr. Stokes is shown in Panama hat, squatting on a stool beneath a quaintly-jointed um brella which is stuck in ground, while two goats chew his
sketches.
the
like
Augustus John. Someone suspiciously Augustus John, in his characteris beneath the trees with a blue port. folio.
"Never mind the high-minded he could have judged her expres-stuff," he snarled at her. "The sion with enough
more know she was not simulating it time for that is past. It only As it was, he thought she had makes what you've done made up her mind to carry her hideous. Look at you. White and bluff to the end and he reacted by gold and clean! You ought to be black, black, black! As black as becoming more infuriated.
"Why don't you deny it?" he hell! Oh, no, you wouldn't touch demanded fiercely, as her gaze reja letter that didn't belong to you. Itje wide-brimmed hat, steals away
Look at your hands!" mained upon his
His voice was stingingly sneer- ing, fascinated,
Natalie merely shook her healing. They're lovely, aren't they, She was beginning to be afraid of your hands? Who'd ever
they could turn themselves 2 tak
out of a you baby's
touch a Jelter. You wouldn't wouldn't erase the name Berna- dine, wrote and put in one that's
him.
face, unchang-
"What kind of woman are you, bread and butter
mouth? Oh, JNI.
think
The figure, who, from the back, bears a striking resemblance to Dame Laura Knight, is painting a girl who poses in #1 classical attitude beneath a tree.
re-
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M. Clemenceau and President Wi Jealous! Jealous! Beastly Jeal
son accepted it. hus Mr. Philip Connard, who
Mr. Lloyd George delivered an
At first this claim of natio.13 Qus. And you, had to pick on a woman who has never done you a .bit of harm. A woman who is sick.a joke on the market, would you? just moved from Chelsen to Ken-inspiring oration to the Imperial inside an Empire- baffled and my-1 Press Conference on the effect of stified foreigners. They thought. the sole support of a kid whose You didn't know that I'd full forsington, stood among the father died to make the country it because she got a tip from a mover's debris in "his drawing the war on Imperial relations. It it was a fake. A British trick, Į
man that even you know by his room and politely evaded all way the outstanding prenounce and, as they said, a. characteristic safe for people like you--so you initials, did you? You haven't attempts of a Press representament of the Conference and made British trick to secure more votes
mention him by them, tive to lure him into an explana- great impression on the dele-in the. Conference... can cheat and rob his widow."
heard me His wild words heat on her cars
tion of his putting his friends on gates. Miss Megan Lloyd George, Gradually they began to realise like blows, and the hollow, bitter, have you?"
He broke off, breathless and all the Underground stations. M.P., was with her father.
that it was a fact that these were Soergaalsed Detaber 26, 1925,- undar special The determining factor in the young nations, and then they said, Jaughter that followed them was
charter of The Nathizal Government se za like an echo of
"Yes, it is true that the people Home faraway panting.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK, Natalie's face was regaining its sound: His denunciation numbed
colour under the smart of his
issue of the war," said Mr. Lloyd "Just like the British, so illogical, her with its shocking violence.
words. She understood now. But
I was the British Empire somehow or other, without plan Sabarbed Capit Could this be Alan torturing
doing the right thing doing it in false conclusion. Bernadine
Viewing the war now, 12 years the wrong way but still doing it." Alan's eyes were black-she had
after it was over, and having been "Now that," said Mr. Lloyd never seen them black before. And had done this, she believed. How, would she did not know-she
through it as a Minister from the George, "is the story of the evolu that red light-ok, perhaps they need time to think it out. But were bloodshot. He must be ill! Bernadine Lamont had done it.
beginning to the end, he came tion of Dominion status. It is 4 Something dreadful was the mat-She had used her genius for evit
to this conclusion definitely. With new idea of Government, a fruit out the intervention of Britain,ful idea which is going to tell a France would have been overrun,tale in the history of this world domatle and foreign banking and chapre. Russia destroyed before Christ so long as we do not cut it short other Pablla Fands of the Chinese Govern- mas, 1914. But the British Em- before we come to the next chapmant both at base and bro pire decided the issue of the war. ter
in the poster are living artists, They are my friends with whom where-sketching.
her so? She scarcely could think not clearly. Her mind jumped to have been away-no, never mind-not Britain, but the British but always getting there, alway Berra Panda
ter with him.
Letter? Letter? Letter? Why was he talking about a letter The word, tormenting her brain, escaped from her lips in a weak
utterance.
to turn Alan into a blind fool, a mad, blind fool. He
was Berna- dine's now, heart, mind and soul.
Natalie told herself this with sickening despair. She saw that it to convince useless to try "That's right, Bernadine's let him of her innocence at the pres- ter," Alan thrust at her. "Come ent Line. Perhaps when his abated--the thought on, tell me, why did you do it?" anger had
He advanced toward her, his held little of hope. A cold chill lips twisting in his passion of tem- was creeping into the very
from of her heart. Knowing how hate per. Natalie shrank back
ful was the thing Alan accused him, visibly frightened.
"You deserve it," snarled. her of, she was beginning to feel "I ought to choke you, but I've that he could never have loved to believe, for one minute, got to save my hands for cleaner her, work. I've got to work, do you that she would be guilty of such understand, and make up for your a crime. mischief."
ones,
he
burning eyes, seemed dead. It was
core
Her soul seemed dying within
pain.
"Who are they? I can't say that. Well, one is Adrian Stokes and another is Wilson Steer. There, that is more than I have told ang one about the poster, and I will tell you no more,
"If you make up a cock-and-ball story about it will flatly con- tradict it."
"A Sketching Scene." Thus saying, Mr. Connard con- tinued:
"Augustus John? I will not say anything about that.
"Am I there? No, I'm not
เ'
That
sketch
Mr. Adrian Stokes has been the "victim" of a fellow-artist once before, when he was made one of the elders in "Susannah and the Elders" in last year's Academy. The artist then was the same man, at Mr. Philip Connard!
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"I am not going so far as I can- must not show Alan Natalie's face, aside from her she
her together, but I will not tell you ed in his heart that war was really
(Loud consult the Empire on questions laughter.) wounds. They were for her only where it is, because I do not want coming, and there was not time to not cut off my retreat.
it to be spoilt, white and set, her lips frozen to know about.
of policy,
"The first thing I would like to Alan laughed at her tottering against any words that might have
Nevertheless the Dominione, say about the future is this. The come to them. But there was noth-progress to a chair. He did not
to equality and independence of the ing she wanted to say-and yet a know her sight had left her, that
India and the Colonies came was literally blinded with
our aid promptly and powerfully young nations of the Empire are Authorised Capital thousand thoughts were on parade she
now accomplished facts. They Subscribed Capital - A Revolutionary Change.. in her agonized mind.
accepted unreservedly by Haserre Fund and Erst "You havn't any defence, have "Good acting," he applauded.
At the end of 1916 an invitation Britain and acknowledged by the you?" he taunted her. "Not a "Too bad to waste it on me alone.
was sent to the Dominions and to world. thing to say. Well, you're wise to But you always were good
India to join the War Cabinet. "The next step is effective unity! Bangkok koep quiet. God, I couldn't stand everything. Everything, that is,
He always felt proud of the fact(hear, hear). Make unity as Batavia to hear you deny it! I've had but matrimony. You've made
that he was head of the Govern-Jeffective as you made equality; if Bombay enough of your saintliness that fine mess of that!"
She seemed to know.. his beliefment that sent that invitation. you don't the Empire will not re- Colombo Natalie reached her chair, and covers the cheapest kind of soul.
The entry of the main. If things remain merely Debi But if you think you've a chance slipped limply into it. She did in Natalie's guilt was affecting (Applause).
Alan go. but she heard him as it would affect her if she Dominions into the War Cabinet where they are it will come to Bengkung to hide under silence, just listen. not see
him, dimly, as though the sound were to see her son, Bobby, com was a tremendous constitutional ultimate disintegration. You can flowrah I know what you did, all right.
"You came into my office when anfe from a world not her own.mitting some ugly net. She felt change in the British Empire he not remain stagnant. (Applause.)
Darkness descended upon her, deeply surry for him.
could use even the word revolu- "We should strive until we have I was out and got hold of "Mrs.
welded all the nations of the Em- Lamont's letter. It gave you your engulfed her. Her body drooped
"Well, I have," he declared tionary. breathing heavily. "I know who chance. You saw what you could over the arm of the chair. She was
Mr. Lloyd Geoge proceeded to pire into one free commonwealth of tell the conference of the terrible equal and independent nations, a do, but here's where you made very still.
did it."
was commonwealth with vast oppor your big mistake. You thought
Alan went directly to Berna-
. Bernadine uttered a little cry. position in which the war you would cause her to lose a
was at home. Oh, Alan, are you sure?" she when this invitation was sent to tunities but also with burdens and
responsibilities, the Dominions and India. “ pretty penny, but you're wrong, dine's house." She
Dr. Wagnall had positively for-asked pleadingly. damned
bidden her to go to the club. She "It was Natalie," he answered, The war, he said, at the end of
-Britain Will Pull Through.. 1916 wás becoming more and more. He swept his arms in a circle to was both relieved and alarmed to this voice as hard as steel.
"The British Empire haa vast there must be some a matter, for the British Empire. indicate the room. "All this," he see Alan.
"You look like well, never mistake," Bernadine cried. "Nata- and we called in representatives territories under its sway; terri- savagely. "Background! mind," she greeted him.
should take Dominions. That's what you call it. But to know. Like nobody's busilie is too lovely a woman to do of the self-governing Dominions tories which have not yet become
"We Must Hasten Słówly."-" finished for her. anything like that. I know she and India that we me it's my earnings. Oh, yes, I
counsel together as to how
"For some time the burden and could always make more you "And this time that's not just
"Do not let us make the mistake knew that it was never hard for slang, Bernadine. Nobody's busi-
She saw at once that her re- could fight the battle through, to responsibility of government of
unfortunate. "That's the end against these over-those immense territories will fall of imagining that there is only me to make money. But what's ness is just what I'll get if this mark
upon the centre of Empire, That one way of attaining these pur- just it," Alan declared, "That's whelming difculties. become of it? We've saved pre- keeps up. I can't stand it!"
did it," centre must be strengthened. poses," said Mr. Lloyd George. cious little. And now, now I've
"No," Bernadine said sooth-what makes it so unforgivable. If ""And between us we
"Britain is passing through "Do not let us make the still got to make good what you triedingly, "I know you can't. But hadn't always thought her some said Mr. Lloyd George,
The
Dominions representa very bad time, but it will pull greater mistake of declining to steal from Bernadine. You don't, try to be funny, Alan This thing to be worshiped, I could
discuss, all or any of these gues- know what that
has got into you too deep for stand it better. But I'm glad I tives," he went on, "did not toddle through. (Applause.)
"I have seen It pull through tions because we dislike particu. Authorised Ospital you?"..
that. But come and sit down and found her out at last. She'll never into the Peace Conference at
Versailles like babies in the hands worse things than this. The diflar proposals in reference to any Reserve Fund Natalie continued
fool me again." to stare let me make you comfortable.” ・・
She was, herself, barely able to Bernadine looked at his nard, of a nurse; they came there like ficulty always in this country is to one of them, strickenly at his ferociously con
"I hope the coming Imperial. torted mouth and reddened eyes.stand on her feet, but she made set face and trembled for Natalie, young men in the full panoply of get it to make an effort. When It Her attitude drove him frantic. the effort for Alan's sake. She She wished she could say some war, having their trophies with does it is a tremendous country.
But you must wake it up, and it is Conference will not shrink from",
LONDON BANKERS 5- "Why don't you say some did not want him to guess that thing, do something, to palliate
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history of the world, so long as take their part of responsibility in and you must tread very warily "
It's me you've
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to
near
means, don't
Still she did not speak, though "her head moved a little in a piti. ful, sidewise motion and the numbness partially left her blood- "less 'lips.
ness," Alan
"Oh, no,
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