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| A TWO-DAY HUMOUROUS STORY

13

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The Christmas Visitor Margaret

WEB

Bonham

In our time

Picasso; and

Lucy was in the farmhouse warned; and she could not put adorned Christmas tree, which kitchen. On Christmas Evo the off much, 'longer showing' Mark was Lucy's. Jeb, She began to "one sees that game blue, acüyltics of farmers' wives have to the spare room, which must wind tinsel in and out of the blue difficult to achieve. a traditional pattern, and are fret and circumspectly be given branches and to keep Mark's have seen it ever before in eyes." concerned with mountains of a lick, While she made the tea, mind off his soul with a flow of Lucy decided: quieldy that a food: one theas energetic Lucy tried to decide how to Bur- objective talk.

The only dis- straightforward amateur chat on women, in the mind's eye, with mount both these obstacles with advantage of this was that quito á romantic Christmas-card | discretion. Before and had made sonal questions could be Der.jart was a safer subject than the counted colour of her eyes. Sho spooned nir, all the trappings of while up her mind she heard Louis pass out, and his identity remained out egg for Michele and said, apron, red cheeks and blazing below the window and shout to rather dim. When the house was "You semire Vermeer?" fire, bowls and feathers and herbs Guy, who was coming back from decorated and Lucy had put rod he has no equals, "But naturally. Guy and the singing of rustle snatches his walk. Vaatly relieved, Lucy to bed, she had only discovered about Yule loga, Lucy, however, said, "Excuse me a moment; I that he lived now in London and Matin eren more." was doing none of these things have to go and help Foggit with that his oxolle nationality

"You find him not too She

was sitting on the table un- the childron's things, and rush-half Spanish and half Jewish- tore?" packing a box her mother had ing out, seized Louis at the front Crech She had also bandaged "Matin, paints like ́n dead fish," aent from Fortnum and Mason's, door and drew him into the near- his finger, which he had nailed said Louls, coming in smelling of Those parts of the kitchen withinust convenient privacy.

"Listen,

to the beam, and he had told her farmyard, Complacent over her her control had tholy traditions sho_said.

he was enjoying himself. Lucy diversionary art chat, Lucy show. sternly repressed. Even the beam "Peggit," said Guy's voice, na amiled encouragingly and sented him the snowstorm and fetch neross the celling was painted. 籍 piercing a flute, "why has him, out to the village pub with ed his food. Still, it was plain frivolous bine; Indian-red rugs Mummy taken Daddy in the—” | Louis,

that, to avoid the Cultural Pass, an the naved floor instead of rag "Never mind. You take they

When they came back it was Mark must, as she said to her plain that Mark was one of those self the time the children were rants, winter Jaamine instead of boots off."

bo kept on the hop. a potted fern, and not a ham, "Dat I want to go to tho-"who look on cider as practically By herb or feather to be seen. Lucy

Usi wore blue dungarees and plenty

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go to the one upstairs." non-alcoholic. His manner wax bathed and ready, for bed that "LAKY."

said Louis, "for at once bewildered and confiden- evening he looked, though happy, Like a dog. he attached very slightly green. Guy in pink

ial.

of lipstick. Outside a thin and Christmas we must then support ley wind in the dusk blew thin, it; but it is more supportable if himself to Lucy when she came pyjamas sat beside him en the in from the hall, where she had nursery door, watching Intently

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intende for how long Josephine ired to kiek Louis venomously while Mark drew à procession of of Josephine is not running this

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ther it must be very clever or a "Lucy," said Louis, raking out.

boing a little ahead of time

Boxing Day I shall to drink, that one," Louts had horridly similar procession of folshed unpacking Fortnum and tell him we open the place to on | said. Injured and unabashed,

rotund little dogs. Lucy went Mason and nut the box away in epileptic colony for the Now Mark sat by the fire, staring round like

vacuum clearner, a cupboard. Though the kitchen Year Anyway, Louis, you can at Lucy amiably but intently collecting clothes and toys, and was immaculately tidy, the cup go and find out while 1 exert "Your house is very happy," he stopping to look over Mark' board seethed rather, and Its myself over the spare room; don't said, "I think you have the shoulder. His painstaking efforts door phat only under pressure. forget Josephine wrote, and start right values. Balance. There is ly charming.

touched her, and were unexpect Now Lucy could sit in the Fin. Guy on his tea, and put Michele a sense of....

"You ought to tish chair by the fire, light a in the high chair, and Loula, pay

"Do havo a cigarette," said take up drawning," she said, and cigarette and smugly admire her Poggit and give her the Christ Lucy. "Do you play bridge? I unbending into pity, dismissed awn organization in not being too mas present, and feed Mr. Thing thought we might have a game him to the sitting room. hot, too tired and too overworked. and don't all un his con with hot when wo'vo enten.“ The fact that this was mostly water.

be down in ten. "I play, yes; but we are only due to Fortnum and Mason, Mrs.minutes.".

three." Easter from the village, who Employing the obvious man- can ring up a friend of oura came frequently and cleaned oeuvre to drown with rushing called Fenner. He lives by him- Louis round the farm in an icy under the beds and in the cor- the sound of a double exist and self. Our bridge is quite irres- wind and a bag of technicalities, ners, and Peggit Easter, who now to provide a convincing excuse ponsible. I assure you, so you made coffee at eleven, walked shepherded the children from for absence, Lury flew to the don't have to worry if you haven't with Louis to the village pub their walk towards their. tea, spare room and began on it at played much. Can you fry washed up again, assisted at the seemed to Lucy only further high speed. A natural gift for bacon?"

birth of five kittens in the cow. proof of organisation, being not high-lighting s room without

all over the ground floor, eut other farmers' wives this after five minutes, to pause at "Perhaps you could fry this bread and butter, lighted the moment coping obstinately with the door and survey with pride while I do a thing or two and candles on the Christinna tree Loo much food, poultry and tradin gleam of polish in all the ring un Fenner."

and helped Lucy bath Michele, tion.

She put her feet on the visible places. She filled a hol- At midnight Lucy was sitting Now when his pipe was alight hob and picked up the New water bottle at the bathroom tap, on the bed in Louis's dressing-Louls came in from something to Statesman.

The door bell rang. which was of a temperature gown, smoking while Louts clean-do with cows. Louis was infected To bo exact, since it was one convince the unsuspicious that the od his teeth. She had filled the with Lucy's ideas about activity of thoro

hose fundamental bells that bed had been thus, airing sinco children's stockings and Bur- for Mark In the paba shell shake naked on the end of a wire, the morning, and went down to reptitiously relabelled for Mark enclosing warmth from the mur it clanged with

corroded the kitchen to find the visitor, the hundred cigarettes she had derous wind.

with the melancholy of disuse. The bell now both physically and socially bought as an extra present for

met Fen preceded entrance We not a half-thawed, eating bread and Louis. "One way and another," ner

for looking

an evening's social finesse over practised by buster beside

Rivas sayingt Michele, while he was

"I seemed to get

entertainment. What with bridge, The villagers they rapped, bawl Louls washed Guy's hands at the the impression

bridge WAR # beer and a surfeit of broken ed or merely walked in. Lucy

Aculi

top.

little more polished than oura.' |ments, Mark as good as fell said something in French that in

jours," Louis anid to

When one ouderstand whe-bed

one's own asleep on his midnight way to English would have been no bet-Lucy as she passed him on the honour I never cer, She put down the New way to the larder. Reassured on Statcaman, got out of the chair the shortness of the visitor's stay, mistake of the most dreadful." the ashes, "if you overdo him ho and the klichen, and opened the Lucy" returned to look on him

In your case, Louis, and judge will have a backset and have to door on a depressed and pathetic with still more maternal air.

bed." little man in early middle age. She found him rather touching the bur results. I certainly would stay many weeks in the spare

It wasn't the first." say Hla nose was cruelly red; the Tea-time with Guy and Michele "When I find

There must be some leave myself I wind had drawn an ley tear un

พ.ศ barren ground for the with only the king on the table why you always say backset and his check, and swept howling flowers of conversation; but she and only the ace in my hand, radishhorse, but I can't put my neross the moor behind him.

studied his unpractised though there is nothing else to do. Ifinger on it. Of course, the first- Asking the way, was Lucy's quite adult manner towards the make

a day is bound to be tiring. error. I play like

But first and faintly hopeful reaction; children and his restrained and foot. All right,

think how ho'll sleep." But, Lucy. but his pause, his arriving smile, reverent efforts to get on terma implore you again when I mis-

"Why I think he is overdone denied it, indicating that he was with the cats. clasalfying his take myself not to say to every thrown the king of diamonds on in because this evening he has for a reason of which it nat

nature her mind with one eye one, Louls is used to playing seemed she should be, but wasn't, on the impending festivities. The bridge in

the ace." French.' Lucy, it does Though appalled, Lucy results of this she alred to Louis of help would not let herself be outward-after she had complacently shown ly at a loan. In any case, she Mark to his

always feel at the time it felt sorry the little man. Louis sat in the Finnish chairse things slightly, but perhaps

To come in," she said; hls am holding Michele out of the way would be better.

a whlatlo or subdued clapping What did you bittered, backward look at the while Lucy restored order. and talk to Mark about in the pub moor was not lost on her, his swept crumbs off the floor; her

diacusa French literature tacit acceptance of her invitation movements were so exact and was further proof that she ought rapid, each task so dovetailled into english farming." to know all about this affair. the other, that though on the

Christmas Lucy herself began to feel more principle of female rights she Mark

came down to breakfast than slightly embittered towards

exacted an offer of assistance, in

οξίνη wearing

corduroy and whichever of her eccentric motro practice anyone else's help put carrying a round parcel. politan friends was at the bottom her off. Louis sald his piece and stood in the doorway surveying

then allowed to sit, "She "Come Late the kitchen," she could have picked a worse on the kitchen with what Lucy felt to be 巋 elightly overdone air of said, und led the little man to aid Lucy, referring to Josephine; mystic delight. Simple pleasures, wards the fire. The sight of mean, most of hers have ex thought Lucy sourly, frying egga, franca and four walls seemed to posed toenails one way or an- and realising that with any unfreeze his vocal chords at last. other and start talking about

Ho and, "This is very kind of Values and Significance on the the sort of pass at her that went couragement Mark would make you. I hope very much it is not hall mat. He does seem

with his appearance. This kind In preat troupe,

to have me at naturally ordinary, unlike most

In- so short

of them. The thing is, ha's of approach (the cultural or

tellectual) had been familiar neurotic. But of course, they al-

to Lacy before she married Louis, ways aro

and Involved a great deal of sit- ting around discussing Gide and Kafka and couls. Children and static discussion, and oven have housework leave little ime for

before Mark had time to

him had

Aware.

of it.

for

If anyone was being had, Lucy thought, it was she; but she said briskly, "Of course nat," pushed the kettle over the fire, and no-

terd first that he was nervous as

TOOM:

Then you should be content, Lucy, because you say often how

a deer and second that his accent you, are good with neurotica."

"I don't feel Christmas is just was foreign. Since her eccentric the time for free treatment. friends went in for foreigners

to

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To Be Continued On Monday

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Then you must permit him to corroding effect on the luciina. and she herself had married one, he quietly neurotic and not put open his mouth on any obscurely Lucy did not think this anything in your nose."

clever observation Lucy

out of the way; but as for know. "Cheri, one puts in oars: but laying the crust on the table and ing him from Adam, she was no further on than before. Shes are pushed or stuck." fabed tentatively: "How long can you stay?"

Hell, Lucy said to herself, oh, hell; 60 It's Josephine. He door

Comment?"

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making. coffee. Out of the corner nover mind. Only I do of her eye she mw him put the round parcel by her plate (she The Visitor looked a little aldashing at idlomatic turns till

koop telling. you it's

no good was dying to know what present armed, and sald with anxiety, you can get a plain sentence in inevitably cultural) and admire, could be at once small, round and "You have not had Madame the right order." Jonvert's letter?"

"English I shall never under-the disarming gaiety of the kit

while carrying out his labours, stand."

neurotica. aren't "Anyway, look like one of her protexes: quiet; they need no encourage dark, cold morning, the fire spar-

Encompassed outside by right this minute 1 could kiliment to do an emotional strip-kled in the range, throwing a Josephine with my own hands. Lease, and if I leave him he will moving light on the polish of Lucy was, however, an accom tell me all about his soul. One holly leaves, the blue china on plished social llar. Aloud she has to keep them heavily occuplacandy-pink cotton cloth and the L. D. SEYMOUR & CO., INC. eald, without a pause, "Yes, ofed, so they don't Introvert round, dark heads of Guy and course

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properly later.

her younger child and an armful of put Michele in the high chair and slapped eggs and fried bread and then. Guy got hold of it and things already organised into a

it simply

ply disappeared somehow. nfle by the door, and calling over on the table almost in one move. knew you were coming her shoulder. In French, Don't ment. Such a display of efficiency my raid. I didn't even

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∙said onerved by the

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arming Mark, and she felt she could safely undo his present the thought of

of without having her thanks 'push. move too happy to of an intellectual, exchange, But ously, and clearly a sensitive divert the visitor.ucy return the parcel disclosed Victorian type, my

"my name is Mark Kralinek

ed shortly and found Mark bal glass ball which, shaken, erupted and I am afrold. I am very in-

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