1914-01-10 — Page 3

SHORT STORY.

HE KNEW SHE WAS GOING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914,

but thought the last of it too weak, Osgood was getting off too easily.

"I'm sorry!" he heard the my fault! young man sigh. "It was all

od to me, and she'll marry you- eho can't help it and you'll be, round old Indy, who will come to happy, and I-I'll be à nien, TO SAY THAT."

visit, and be godmother in your (Continued from Extra)

children, and spoil them terribly." roached it, his er was struck by "Oh, don't wait for that!" "It was not all your fault, but "No," said Molly stoutly. an anfamiliar sound which caue-ho ed him to stop.

sighed. Spoil me!

mine. I did wrong to come and love

you!"

Thon, it here with you. And I know The sound was a peculiar kind drugged with the leadly com- I was doing wrong, but, to tell of little song, and it seemed to bination of woman an I sent and the truth, I took the risk just him to come from somewhere near moon and music, he bent im-because-" She broke off with the far end of the hedge, where petuously, and kissed her mouth. atood the pump-house.

And an instant after he was glad,

-out finishing. for she realized, even qe his lips touched hors that she did not love bim. She had been a little bit afraid she did.

Until the week before, there had been a gas-ongise in the pump-house; but it had balked, and balked, and balked, until, at last, Wickett hal been irritated into ordering a more up-to-date contrivance to replace it-an electric motor which turned itself on and off automatically, as water was required in the tank or not. The new machine had been there

"Why did you kiss me?" he asked reproachfully.

if the words were answer to all

"I love you!" he repeated, as : the questions in the universe.

And those were the two uttor ancos which wafted, on the

The words

!

"Because what?" usked

good eagerly.

"

"Never mind," she said; and Wickett could tell, by the little rustling that he heard and the crunch of gravel, that they had ripen to their feet..

min

"the young 'Please! Surged. "Tell me just to show

that I'm forgiven!"

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found the time to go and look at for some days, but Wickett had tillness of the night, across the and in that silence Wickett, heard | it. Not that. any thing would be accomplished by his looking at iti but it is the universal customs for men with country pinces to go and look at things like that.

Even now it would not have occurred to bim to drop in at the pump-house, had it not been for

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A moment's silence followed, badge to Wickett. crashed upon his senses ng un-

his own heart thumping. Hardly expretedly, as astoundingly,

Pleas eagerly than Oegood, hely

hoped his wife would answer. bruisingly as if the bricks of his What was the truth which she own house had toppled down and begun to tell-and stopped? upon him all at once. For an

lad she been jealous of him? instant he was dazel. Then be Had she soon more than he folt, rising and burning within thought that she had seen? Had him like a mass of molten metal, she, in hos heart, rosented his

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He turned off and skirted the outer wall of hedge. The song grew louder in his ears. Then, suddenly, the tank must have fill ed up, for the automatic cursanting dress, thrashing wildly in a worked and the motor stopped mass of privet, would make a Very well," she said: "}}} abruptly. The abruptuoss with picture more absurd than mon- tell you. And what I'm going to which it stopped surprised him. Jacing. For another, the remnants tell is the great Masonic secret ol Silence succeeded for the briefest of his scattered reason told him, the married, which you have no moment. Then he heard voices just that a "seeno" would only dignify right to know. It is the reason beyond the hedge.

the follow's impudence. No why my husband wished to go To Molly and young Osgood, Ile would not take part unless he alone with Mrs. Barton to-night, seated in the gordon in the saw that Molly needed him She and the reason why Mrs. Barton shadow of the inclosing privet, had been a fool to get herself into wished to go with him. It is the the whole world seemed to be this! She might have known reason why I stayed at home-on composed of flowerscents, and young Osgood for an impression their account as well as on my music, and the dust of moon and ble idiot! He was one of those; own; and it is the reason why I stars, And oh, the mystery there

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through the hedge. But two his arms, and bold her closo, ruddan mad desire to seize ber things deterred him. For one, and tell her he had never loved the hedge wa thick and high, another woman, and that he and, oven as he raged, in realized that an angry husband in even-never, never would !.

Then she spoke again.

It was all impersonal at first, but presently he said:

a

lesson to her--a much needed 'dason; for she was altogether too ingenuous was time she founil out what men were time

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Then Wickelt, studing silent

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"You knew I didn't want to go she understood the fascination of mixed feelings. Whether he zorned, kept for the three months to the dance. You know I want execised upon them by such had a right to ha or not, he was ed to stay!"

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Now, bearing his wife's voice, going to say that !-Maclure's, he held his eager breath,

"Of course I knew you were fond of me," she said in a clear, It is because you like me just tone. But as for loving as I like you.

von-simply don't; it's all, "Like! "

Heres the I have given my love one-given word ironically. Then

all I have. And you don't love "Did you ever feel that idense, either. You only think were fluttering the gh your do. So both of us pra going to mind like a flight of gorgeous forgot that anything like this has butterflies? That you'd like to ever happened." catch them and show them to Listening, Wickett approved some one, but feared to try, lest the first part of what she said, you injure them? That is the

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"You're not!", he protested" vehemently." It isn't so! You're only four years older!

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