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**Thank you... I never dance) "M you were mine, nothing)you an allowance to allow you to My wooden leg, you know." would make me too tired to go live as you like to, apart from and she smiled so sadly, so brave-[about with you." be whispered. me."

WORLD'S y at that purely mythical limb, "Oh, May, how sweet and soft

GREATEST that lots of people almost believed and white you are....... Why aren't

His eyes darkened, and he said TRAVEL Fin it.

you mine***

SYSTEM gently: Barbara wasn't dapeing, either. Distant strains of music reach- "The unattainable is always so Billy boy was barely two months ed them from the ballroom. And much more desirable than the She sat looking or, and presently, silhouetted against the thing we can have, dear. Don't old. thought "Romance and glamour bright square of light that was the overlook the fact that Huey is pro- for everyone except me.......... doorway, a large figure appeared, bably constituted just as mine out |

"Poor Alice... There she is looking this way and that of ten other men are” again. I can't imagine what she Peering through the shadows, look- "You are so coarse, so has come out for," Mrs. Cleverly's ing May knew very well what You want to drag it all down to voice broke in. **If must be for... She laughed and nestled the level of a COTHER ON intrigue, really most unpleasant for her." against Huey, young, triumphant and it has never been that Hues Alice was tall and gaunt, and no leafe...

and I have something fundamental *There's Alice," she said. "jook-in common.". amount of lying would ever again make anyone believe she was lessing for you.” than forty-five. She had the I pleased her to triumph over something fundamental in com- anxious, rather vacant, look of Alice. Once, long ago on a sea mon." he said drily. sheep strayed from the fold, a voyage, Alice had, snubbed a little She sobbed anew. wispy. untidy look that suggested nobody who was travelling out There you are, you see. Mak-E/Japan June 26 June 28 the White Queen out of "Alice in alone marry one of the Rangooning it all seem coarse and horrible E/An July 10 July 22 July 14 July 16 July 18 Wonderland." Rather 蟲 tragic doctors, and was thus beneath her and low. You haven't any im E/Canada July 24 July 26

July 29 July 31 Aug. 7 Aug. 19 E/Russia Ang. 7 ADE. Alice. and yet. Barbara, mused notice. Women do not easily for agination. Just because a

9 Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 15. thing

Aug. 14 these people said she had once had get

Aug. 28 Aug, 28 Sept. 3 Sept. # things... There's hasn't happened to you, you can't E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 25 marvellous time, and that in other Alice," said May, and called to imagine it happening to anybody. days a Governor had been amongst mind the white decks, the beauti-Oh, Jock, let me go.” her abject alaves and had very fully dressed Alice of those days. She lay sobbing beside him un- nearly killed himself for her sake. and the snub, once more. The til the dawn was grey beyond the Very nearly-but not quite and tables were turned.

window, and the sparrows bezai Alice in any case it did not do

"Not looking for me," said Hueyto awake once more and chatter she much good now 26

danced"She hates me. We haven't lived their amiable futilities in the round wearing an unlikely pink together for years. I never leaves. He laid his hand heavily tulle frock, much too young for terested her; she was always out on her shoulders, feeling wearily her, in the arms of a Judge of after larger game. I often wonder for her in the half-darkness. the High Court, who in a pro-now what she married me for,,, and "All right, old lady. You shall perly, constituted society would I can't for the life of me make home. Tl fix it up, only de have been prevented by law from out why she comes here. Why stop crying. I can't bear you to attempting anything but ring-o'- can't she stay at home. now that be unhappy. You shall go home. roses Alice's wide, harried, and I want her to? .."

Things will come right after all "Isn't it queer how rather vacant eyes searched this

the later ch, I am sure, if only you'll way and that way all the time wrong people seem to marry one give them a chance.....” she was dancing, and trying to be another "said May, in a small gay and return the Judge's heavy voice.

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May went round to Barbara Hill's bungalow next morning and pleasantries, and Barbara knew She was thinking, then, of Jock told her all about it. Barbara was what she was looking for well They kissed, and in the little silence nursing the baby. enough. She was trying to find that followed she was thinking of "You are happily married,” said May-and her husband-who were Jock again. He had seemed mar-May. “Lucky girl You doa't always together, whose affair had vellous at home in Bath. He was know what it is to have to go on come to be practically recognised.Jone of those large, fair men that living day after day with someone

"Poor Mrs. Grey," said Barbara dogs and children take to at sight, who bores you and does not under- | softly.

mast and he had the,

beautiful stand you, and all the time you "Yes. They fell out over the hands. Surgeon's hands, artist's are in love with someone else." Governor, and they never got over hands, square and clever, and al- It. It didn't matter to Alice at ways scrupulously clean. first. She had romance after There was a lot of good

He He simply bored her. romance-a wonderful time, short... And for

Huey ber more and more. the years never looked at anybody until May they lived together. came along. and then Alice began struck May that she had to think perhaps she hadn't been noticed this boredom before wise to leave him alone so much met Huey. Life, she said, hadn't and came back. but, of course, it turned out as she expected it to secret." was too late. He treats her shame Life with Huey would have been- She would have liked to tell May fully до

they say .. poor so different. They were soul mates, in strict confidence how much Sometimes it made her cry. She there was that was disappointing Alice."

"Why doesn't she divorce him?" would have run away with Huey in her own marriage, but May, Mrs. Cleverly said, "Fer the any day if he had asked her, but it was obvious, did not want her heart-breaking reason many he never suggested it. He had too to talk 'She only wanted her to married women know, IMI" dear.much respect for her.

listen and sympathise, so Barbara,

SO

It

Barbara said nothing, yet apart from the fact that she was not in Jock in love with anyone else, she case

bored seemed entirely to £t her longer For how Will got on her serves

never sometimes! She thought:

never

Own.

"May is really a much nicer | she character than I am, for she says outright what I only think in

She hasn't got any money, and she Jock Chance was awake when who was a kind girl, did. got used to leading an easy, luxuri-his wife returned, although it was Will came limping in at tifin ous life at Huey's expense...* long past midnight. He blinked time. Barbara, who- read him 80 Will arrived for Barbara. Heat her sleepily and said, "It's easily that to her he had become was a nice, square, homely crea-boy," because pieces of informa- little but A collection of well- ture, with an honest face and ation of that sort usually interest-thumbed pages, knew by his face flame leg which he got in the War.jed her. But May had forgotten there was something amiss. Fun- Mrs. Cleverly watched them go it was a baby case on which he ny old Will; you couldn't help away together, and her pretty eyes had been out half the night, and liking him he was so clumsy, so

A nice, wholesome she hadn't the spirit to ask whose well meaning, so transparent. Touple of children, she thought. the boy was. She undressed and

As soon as May had gone she "I must give Barbara a dress.jerept into the twin bed

beside turned to him. That rag of hers looks like mangled him, shivering. although the night

"Well, what is it?" But with three was close and hot and the hair green sage...

grew soft

CS.

He was so upset that he could

children and only their pay. it's about her forehead damp with it hardly say it hardly to be wondered at. poor All her old resentment against "Mrs. Grey was drowned early dears."

Jock welled up in her heart again this morning in the Royal Lakes, She sat, a good-looking woman He

was old-fashioned. He Babs They're bringing it in She bad would not take the hist about

an accident, but I Thurs., 4th June of no age, looking on.

social sleeping in his dressing-room, no really there is much doubt ..." Mon 15th June no desire to join, in the

cliques and intrigues of Rangoon matter how plainly she put it to He looked at her pitifully and felt Sep... 24th May She was quite happy.

him. Surely it must have been for her hand. Moa..

Sen. Sun..

8th June

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Huey and May passed close to jobvious to the densest man, long "Beastly!" he said. her, hand in hand, gazing into ago, that she didn't like married Barbara went upstairs, and each other's eyes, bound for the life. that she wanted to be left again she felt that little stab of

bats flitted alone. garden, where little

envy that came to her when she 24th May about in the darkness, and the And there he lay, a large man, seemed to have everything fall 21st June

moon bung like a decoration over in scarlet Shan trousers. "Scar right for them. Now Jock would let. I ask you!" said May. Night let May go, of course, and then the empty tennis courts.

**Poor May" thought Mes after night. Suddenly she knew she and Huey would be married Cleverly inconsequently, Most wo that she could not stand it

envied May at that time. longer, and she buried her face in and live happily ever after" Huey adored her so, and it was her hands and said:" {all very romantic.

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