1927-12-31 — Page 19

OUR SERIAL STORY.

THE MOATED GRANGE.

MRS. DE BURGII, an widow, and

By KATHARINE TYNAN.

Author of "A Mad Marriage," "The Houss

of Doom," "Dooys the Dreamer."

Irish

BEATA, her daughter, decide to take an old country house, the Monted Grange, occupied in the

absence of Its owner by

CRONCH, A queer caretaker, and MRS. CRONCHI, his wife.

CHAPTER V.

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own faces, while she snatched at the vella, calling them silly cuckoos and other such names. They were big and brenzed and comely, but one bad an empty sleeve and an- other walked with a stick. The charming thing was their absolute, anconsciousness that they were being observed.

"It is a good thing that they can laugh still," said Beata, "though they are the War generation."

"They are talking with a brogue," Mrs. de Burgh "sald, in could high delight. "Oh, they be nothing but Irish. They mind me so much of the Dublin Horse Show and Punchestown and the Galway Races: they make my heart Hore."

"Or the Moated Grange," said girl. Mrs. de Burgh, with a which her daughter understood 10 look back at Glen Assarec.

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Mr. de Burgh looked up from under the pink silk eiderdown which they had brought from Glen Assaroo. Her hair all over the pillow made. her look very young. "My kind Beata, she said, while Beata lifted her pillows and brought a pretty flowered dressing

"Well, so long," said the one jacket to lay about her mother's shoniders while she drank her tea. who dragged his log a little. He "Icy-cold, is it not? I feel as had a delightful smile, and some- though my nose was frost-bitten."how at that moment it happened "It is that wretched fog again,"to fall on Beata and Mrs. de Burgh, grumbled Beuta. "Why does any and rested there. "I've got to feed one ever live in London, music? those kids. We'll meet after the Think of tilen Assaróe on a morn-matinee at the Piccadilly for tea" "Sa long, Tony," said the pretty ing like tits,""

refusai He made his way sily through the crowd, and he was still smiling as he passed them by, or puthaps "Yes, it must be quite sunshiny it was that he had a curiously there." Beata said. Certainly the sweet mouth which had the effect thought of the albuted Grunge of a faint smile, and very blue and contrast with the foggy and frosty merry eyes under the shadow of morning and the narrow little that his soft hat. with its heartless. gas fires was a

"They brought the country," pleasant orie. With a fire in each of those rooms the house would said Benta, as the young man dis "be perfect. Now in morning light-appeared in the crowd. "1 really or at least in what should, have smelt mezulows and bogs. Ob, been morning light she could mumsie. do you suppose we shall laugh at the rue that had come ever again be walking up-hill by upon her last night-someone waweeting-hure and smelling the ing on her grave, as the old people hay lying out in the fields as weThere is some difficulty." used to say in Ireland if she used to do?"

"Perhaps Ireland won't have us shivered. It was only fatigue and

for a long time, the dreadful foggy days that Endor, at least, kept them indoors so much, and Mr. de Burgh said, and a shadow the gas stove. The cobwebs that fell over her bright face. "but you hung about her would disappear as are going to bring over Grey Lady, soon as she got into the sun, even are you not?"

"I hope so." said Reata, unsure winter sun. She if it was a glared at her reflection in the little for the first time.

They were so engrossed in what square of looking-glass above the gas fire. Her complexion looked they were doing and seeing that rather green. Perhaps it was only the time passed more quickly than the cheap, gimcrack glass.

they thought. Suddenly they dis- She was glad now of the pre-covered that it was nearly half-past cipitancy with which they had arone. The hour for lunch at the re- ranged for Monday; that the thing staurant of the fals was settled beyond recall. They had a certain amourt of packing to do, things to buy, stores to order, when the fog should lift and allow them to get out.

o'clock, and no able after two.

was one

To the police station!" Beata nished the halting English for herself. She had forgotten all about the party at the next table till she saw Tony detach himself from the others and come forward. "Can I be of use?" he asked.

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Let Latipation. sick headache, bile, "Your purse has been stolen.

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"You had better get home quick-BETTING-TAX FRAUDS, de Burgh suddenly made the dis-cocking, of the restaurant attach-ly," he said. "The fog will le covery that it was pouse mind-ed to the flats.

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To Fagan's they directed their could see you home, but I am in WHO HAS HAD THE MONEY? ing the fog. If one lived in Lon don one must be prepared to dis-way by streets still under a dark charge of these kids.”

a great surprise to "That fat little boy called him a regard it as one disregarded rain pall, but so full of busy shopping in Wales and Ireland. Fortunate-crowds that one forgot the night sahib," said Mrs. de Burgh, in the millions of people who have attend- comfortable safety of the taxi, ed dog-racing meetings this year, ly, there was a Tube station close overhead.

which was crawling new they had says the Daily Mail, to read the at hand, and the Tubes were not

left the more braintly fit streets statement made by the Chancellor affected by the fog.

When they emerged from the the rea-soup which had replaced behind. The fag had changed of the Exchequer in the House the black fog. "Only he has no again, and the darkness was really of Commons on November 8 that of had the £2,766/700 which the Bets Tax terrifying. Supposing they chance against the soot,"

Someone jostled them in the had to walk home through all those yielded in its first twelve months streets! "an inconceivably small amount disguised crowd, and they were pushed hither unknown, and thither, but, once out of Ox- Would anyone have remembered the was derived from greyhound rac-

Beata usked herself. ing."

Four and a half million people To Mrs. de Burgh it was a gayford-street, the crowd was less taxi but he?

"I call him a St. George, a St., adventure to be out in the fog. dense, and they made their way They went along Regent-atreet, more easily though in greater Patrick, anything you like," her passed through the turnstiles of and mother said, fervently. "And oh, the tracks in Lohdon, Manchester,

Birmingham,- arm in arm, Mrs, de Burgh's bright obscurity.

At Pagani's a waiter who knew Beata, wasn't he good to look at? Edinburgh. eyes intent upon the things to be

Leeds between Easter and mid- them put them into the little And his lovely brogue! seen in the windows.

They were all good to look at," October; while a great many trucks There were so many things she separato, place by the entrance of

were open in other towns and 1,000 wanted to buy for Beata: she had the upstairs room, which contains said Beati

on three bookmakers operated She hoped Anthony Napier was. always bought for others, not for two or three tables. When they herself. Everything was

they not going to pass away from them nights a week at the White City dehad given their orders

from June until October. Looking capital (tally paid up) ................ light her and a wonder, from the flanced about them at the people into the darkness..

at the above figures, it is perfect- moving staircase in the Tubes to at the alter tables. They were

ly clear that some bookmakers the tall policemen who guided the still enough of county mice to take

must have been defrauding the delight in staring about them at traffic.

State. The French Government have Her stock of money was by no the strange London world.

Attendance figures at the tracks Alexandria Beata sized Suddenly inexhaustible, but shp means

Lady Blades, the exceeded anything recorded at race Bombay bought as though they were going mother'a hand under the table and conferred on into the wilda instead of fifty miles queezed it hard. Mes, de Burgh Wife of Sir Rowland Blades, M.P., meetings. The gatherings general-Huenos Ayra

direction of her the ex-Lord Mayor, the Order of ly indulged in betting from is. to allowed the Beata was too young not to enlager. It was an odd coincidence the Legion of Honour "in recogni-21,000 on a single event, and the Changchan joy the aulventre. For once she that at the next table should betion of her help to French chari- betting turnover must have reach-Patres (Dairy) Nagers

Faith in the revenue-producing Hankow, felt incapable of keeping her sitting the young man of Marshalles and institutions, particularly ed an immense figure. mother in order. It gave the poor and Splgrove's whom his sister the new British Institute in Paris." darling so much pleasure to buy. had called Toay. Stranger stil, Slie was invested with the Insignia possibilities of greyhound racing Harbin

was shown when, in July, the tax Tungkong She realised sharply but it was his guests were the party they by the French Ambassador, M. de

Liverpool-street Fleurian, at the Embassy, Albert was reduced from 31⁄2 per cent. Kal Yuen a long time since her mother had had

fon stakes to 2 per cent., the rate the had that pleasure, and in suffolk yesterday, minus the lovely mother. Gate House, Hyde Park, S.W.

which applies to betting in rings at race meetings,

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her

there would be no chance of buying. The tall boy and the two little There would be a year of economy chubby ones, the latter with shin- So she looked on with an indulgenting faces of anticipation, looked at smile while ber mother flitted from Tony. He was ordering the most counter to counter of the big West- wonderful things-hors d'œuvres; End shops, adding constantly to oyster snup, eels en matelot, calf's the pile of parcels that were always head financiere. being tied together.

"This is going to be the blow-

or, your

At a counter in Marshall and out of your lives," he said to the Snelgrove's, where Mrs. de Burgh small boys as his eyes ran over the was selecting dainty ribbons for bill of fare." "Mind, you two kids, Beata's hair, as though she was you, can cat what you jolly well. going to have much chance of wear-like, but for Heaven's sake don't ing them at the Moated Grange, get sick afterwards, Boata suddenly plucked her mother will beat me." mother's arm to draw her atten The two little sailor boys choked tion to something that was going ecstatically at the jest about their on at the next counter, something getting sick, while the tall boy, that was exhilarating the sober who had just discovered Beata English assistanta and making the and had turned very 'red, remark- shopping crowd pause to look on cd, loftily, that that was the worst smilingly.

of taking kids about: they were so There were three tall young men apt to overeat, not caring for the with a very pretty girl, obviously consequence.

Beata and her mother felt s their sister. She was trying on

were of the veils, and they were taking them though they from her and trying them on their party, and were as happy as the boys, but they could not wait to

To be continued.)

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

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