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CHAPTER XXX
down at him.
"Well, we're quite a lot better to- dny, nren't we?" she said.
WAR Alck.
very
he was married. The phrase, p that he was sure everything |
12
It id Tips asked rather timbily if Michael over a wanted to have a look at the horses,
Back in her enormous bedroom
about the whole business. The nurse gloves. What wan it he had expect Irald he was a good patient. Thated to find? Michael opened his eyes and starmennt he let everyone else to as he Sally cooed over him after he came ed about him. There was a square or she plensed,, and kept silent. but up to the verandn' once more. of light that amrked the window. One day Downrigg came and they] Was be sure he'd be all right? He shut his eyes again because that
Inci
Michael, dressed They didn't like leaving him here. light hurt him and he fell sore all for the first
a long talk.
time in his street He ought to come back to their house over-almost as if he had been bruis- clothes, was sitting in a comfortable with them, only people talked so, ed in a fight..
chair out in the pavilion. Downrigg And, after all, the wedding was to Yesterday...Yesterday.
talked a lot about the estate (what be text week. Then she could take There was something he wanted to estate? Michel wanted to ask but care of him for always-her great remember. And could not. So he didn't bother) and said there was a big, naughty boy who had been so closed, his eyes and lay still. Pre good deal of money tied up. al-jvery sently the sound of crisp, starched though not, of course, as much Michael was gind when she'd gone! akirts rustling came to his ears, and one would like, Death duties and sofawny. The coloured boy
whore he opened his eyes again, Just 4an, he bud, sid little. There was a nurse.
And name, Michael had learned, was Tips, She had Michael had wondered again idly enote out and said that his father
potentiously. A cool, wide free with smiling gy; what it was all about.
had had to go to Hartford because She had thermometer in her hand "You'll be sailing, I suppose, nu somebody in the family and she shook it a little, smiling soon as you are well Downrigg had He'd be back next Thursday Michael
sald. "And after you're married.” | snis, not caring at all but
After be for an instant, stirred some memory! be all right. Michael would have frowned it in Michel, but it passed. frowning, like the square of light,been like, breeze passing hadn't hurt him. Nurses always whent field, bending the stalks only and Michael followed him out into talked that way, as if the patient for a moment. After he was mar shabby stahleyard, where a mare were a child. Was he better? He red-well, men married every day. and a big roan whinned at him. didn't know. Wasn't sure, even, that This Sally girl was solicitions. She This was good, Michael thought. It he had been really ill. It was ton kissed him when she came and went. was a homelike place. Obviously he It wasn't poplenannt. He ought to helonged here, although that cloudy much trouble to talk.
The purse wrote something down remember more about her, though. sensation, wavering always at the on a chart that hung on
back of his mind, mmle him feel a the foot And couldn't. of the bed; Michael could see that Downrigg went on. He was leay-bit unsure. much, out of the mere crack he hnding, for England on the morrow, he Then akt. They could find him in Lon- opened in his shuttered litis. she went away and came back again don. He left Michael his card. On with the mullioned windows and the with a cloudy draught which she held this side, he said, the affairs were rich, tasteless furniture. Sally sat, in the hands of Whithread & For- surrounded by a rainbow of frocks: "Oh, gond?" The words came rest in Wall Street. He wrote the shoes, still in their tissue wrappings, :
Michael could. drawing in the boxes. drowsily, almost involuntarily and he address down. could feel a very vibration of tri un them.
It had been easier than she hadi "That's nice," Michael said, look-expected-all of it. umph go through the nurse's body as
She gloated, she kept cool professional fingers on ing down at his oddly thin, oddly with a sort of wild gler, over the his wrist.
helpless hands. Once they had been thought of her coming triumph. At Well
ines' now,
that splendidt brown....
first she had been" attracted to Michael He likes his medicine, does he 7
merely because of his hand- It was easier after that because some masculinity-partly because of Well, if he's very good he shall see somebody after a bit, and that will he was stronger. Only there was his indifference. But her nature took make him better still."
Hurt of cloudiness at the buck of fire always at any sign of opposi Michael hudn't the remotest ides his brain-not wholly disagreeable, tion and, although she had been what she was talking about, and he but rather worrying, If that cloudi-more than once tempted to let the didn't care in the least. It was farness would lift, Michael felt, he engagement drop, after she had heard too much trouble to ask.
could remember great deal. Hle of his good fortune she had deter He drowsed again and the pain didn't tell the doctors this. He had mined to cling to him doggedly. WILK leas. There
Michael had been right when he was somebody-a never been ill in his life before and, girl in a dark frock-nt his bedside for all he knew, this dizziness, this had shrewdly gauged Sally's reactions when he wakened. He'd known her,
might be a part of convales- She rolled the words on her lips now, trying on a dangling crystal Te satisfied Sally by being gentle earring." "Lady Carden." and subdued and entirely tractable.. She swept herself a deep curtsey She kigned in and wept a little. He no longer frowned and urged in the glass, liking the effect of and this tired Michnel. The urge delay when she spoke of their com-dangling crystal drops, against her Look het away, making soothing ing marriage, but let her have things dark curls and her glowing dark skin. Those old eats down at the noises. After that he slept for her way. long time and when he woke again There WHA something familiar Point could ant snuh her now. there was a splash of rain against about the streets through which Sally They'd have to admit she'd done well, the windows and the routa was cool and her father presently drove him. for herself.
Suddenly she remembered the little It was, the nurse told him They expected him to smile in res brightly, another day, Funny
the cognition, and so he did, because I packet the nurse had given her when way these days ran into one another, didn't like to disappoint them. They first she arrived at the hospital. had been so kind. And when they claiming Michael. She turned it out drew up t a shabby house under of her pucas, examining it again A handful of clunge,
to his lips.
well before he had been taken sick, log of not being quite sure of to the thought of a title,
hut just now he couldn't quite re- cence. member her name. It would come to him after little.
er.
without movement or sound....
After a procession of such menn. oak trees out on u country road with curiosity.
he felt a flash of something that a crumpled bill or two.. And a plain
ingless days, punetusted only by was almost like pain. A young gold ring. tray and pills and visits from a tall, coloured bay came out and shook his melnnelly doctor with a gentle hand and said he was glad to se voice, and white-coated internes who him back. Michel was very polite poked and prodded Michael and ask-all through this, When he went in ed him questions, he was able to sit side he found that, sure enough, the up. The dark girl (her name was room with the parrow he and the Sally Moon, it scenied) came often saken chest of drawers meant some now. And there was an Englishman thing to him. He had slept in this named Downrigg who nude them room-long ago.
move Michael from the word to a He went to the bureau almost as private room. Michael couldn't quite sleepwalker might have gone, and understand why it matterist (why fopened a top drawer and looked into Mr. Downrigg eared, but there it jil. There were only a few neat, WBS. He was singularly apathetic folded handkerchiefs and some WON'T
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A wedding ring. "Funny, old-fashioned thing." Sally said with distaste. Well, if Michael had thought he was going to put any such thing on her finger he was múch mistaken. Not a chance. She would pick out her own diamond and platinum band when she went into the vity to-morrow. She'd tell Michael about it. He could pay for it Inter.
This gold ring she tossed careless. y. into her Jewel box -He'd never think of it now.
(To Be Continued).
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ders on board, visitors 11 crews two-faced s John Jumper, “The | In impanded while young lieutenant Mystery of Edwin Brood will still mution pictars cameraman is Whitfield, son of Mr. Samuel Whit- turns detective, trails a killer be a mystery when the print reaches played
the King's Theatre in Sunday, after a desperate fight, carers
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"The Gay Bride" sleuth, and Jean Parker, plays sweetheart in her most ambitious role The Inst Inugh with the criminal in its tech lap. figies enckelse to supper Cing Bride Meiving surge percher, played by Alver Young, ft. on Tuesday with
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The east includes Jean Hersholt of among the vicious but dumb gentry help loving her, despite her attempt coption was held at the home of "Men in White," fanft, in the prin-
win of the underworld. Carole Lombard to Healy, Una Merkel, Mary
Mr. George Benson, Mr. E. H. Arthur Byron, Frank Shields, Mischa the fold can be dug. Chester Morris, scrupulous plots. Others in the cast Lockwood, Mr. So Tin-Wong and
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori Auer and others of note.. The story as an. ambitious young man whe Harry Green, Henry Travers, one of the students of Mr. Roy
by Sedgwick, Lieutenant
MASSAGE Paul Harvey, duties
Russell Hopton, Andrew Whitfield made short speeches con- Acupuncture, Moxocausis and Bone Seiting mander Frank Wend and fe Shenan racketeer's "hang out."" The Holable Tombes, Howard Lang, Marion Burns, gratulating the newly wedded Holder of Japanme and Hongkong Govern
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Geneva Mitchell, Lowell laughter with
Sherman piness. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
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his death. Now, if you think we are laughter.
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After their honeymoon Cheungchow, the bride and, bride- groom will return to Canton and both will be connected with the Church of Christ Mission.
THE CHINA FLEET
Bix
LEAVES WEIHAIWEI FOR of "The Mystery of Edwin Columbia production will be at the it has intercepted an 8.0.9. from the
SUMMER CRUISE Drood" intriguing was the fact that Queen's Theatre from to-day to Satur- American steamer Calmar, stating only half a dozen people of the Uni-day. An interesting story of a pup that it has been in collision with the
Weihaiwel, July 24. versal studio knew what the solution poter playent by
The China Flect, except the by Lee Tracy this pic Japanese steamer Koryn Maru ten Dorsetshire, Falmouth and of this hundred-year old mystory was turo The
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thrills, miles south of San Francisco light-aubmarines has gone on a summer. L. Balderston, romanco and action enought Gladys Unger, Bradley King and everyone Leopold Atlas, were sworn to secrecy. Durante, Sally Ellers, and
in the family.
Jimmy
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little director, Stuart Walker, war Dickle Walters, two-and-a-half year boats to the Koryu Maru, apparently about August 10.
The Calmar'a crow wán taken by They are returning to Welhalwei| sworn to secrecy, and Edmund old child, who makes his outstanding without danger. Groinger, the producer, saw to it that debut in this
Admiral Sir Frederic and Lady none of the players knew until the principal
pleture have arts in this production. The coastguard cutter Shawnee is Droyer are remaining here in the final sequences how this story was Walter Lang directed from the story speeding to the scene.-Reuter.
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