A FIRST NOVEL!
WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XLVIII,
"Oh, Sybil, don't" implored Mrs. Thorne. "You know I loved Toddy as if he were my own. You and Tad have grown away from me, and I'm such a lonely old wo
30. I'll miss Teddy more than any of you?
She put her hands to her face, and silent tears stole between her poor, this fingers. Then Sybil was on her knees, with her face in her mother's lap, sobbing as though her heart would break, Valoric came and ant on the arm of her chair to stroke her slim shoulders lovingly, and Tad dropped a kiss on her bowed head.
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Tad put his arms clumsily about her. "God bless you," he whis- pered,
"Now don't be nice to me," she warned him"or I'll cry,"
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Craig was idly scanning closing stock roporta when Sybfi, with out knocking, slipped quietly into the room. She was pale as the flowers she wore, and seemed as frail and sweet.
"Sybil. My dear, what is the matter? You're white as a sheet," Solicitously he took her hand and drew her to his cilent's best upholstered chair.
"Have you been ill, Sibt 1s any- thing wrong?.. My poor little girl
"Mother, dear," whispered Va-[you look like denth." leric, "we'll never let you be tone- ly again."
She caught Tad's tear-dimmed glance, and raised her eyebrows Interrogatively.
"All right," he nodded. "Mother, der, listen, "You're going to have another little grand- child. I'm going to have a baby!
"Teddy's dead, Craig."
"Teddy?" he repeated dully. "Yes. We buried him this after- noon-in, his little teddy bear suit. The red one. It was the warmest thing he had. I tucked his little puppy dog under his arm the one you gave him. He loved it so."
"Syhil-darling—”.
Honestly-in three more months. “Wait, Craig-I came to tell you
I think I've been so"smart to keep|ammething,”
it a secret. We meant not to tell
"Bat, Sib-you don't mean that.
He was staring at her as though'
he believed her crazy, and his face was grey and drawn as hera,
"I wouldn't tell you, Craly, if it wasn't true. No, dear, I haven't
you for a little while set. The|Teildy's not really dead—not your longer we waited the cleverer | Hulle Teddy." felt. But now, you pour dear, I want you to stop your crying, tell Tad and me you're glad. Tad's Bou! Aren't you thrillel, Mother -and Sib-Sib, dear-can't you he glad too? Another little baby-togene insane: Teddy's dead. I know, make life bearable TOW that herause they put him in the Toddy's gone Oh, please tell ne ground, you see. Underneath the you're glad!"
And they let me dress him very warmly, and put his toya in his casket, like pagan mothers do.
"Tadi Is it true?"
They turned to him together, Sybil and her mother. And their surprise was so gentine, the Valerie laughed aloud.
"Well, I like that! Of course it's frue. Don't you suppuse I know?"
SHOW.
"Teddy was hanged, Craig. He choked to death, when I went out to see a man I used to love. Oh, they say he was watching the now-flakes, but I know better. He Then they laughed-the two wan looking for his mother. With who never expected this little nose pressed against that, smile again-and, throwing theirice pane, In his flannel nightie, arms alat Valerie, kissed her.
shivering in the cold, waiting for:
Wonen
"Oh, my dear!" breathed Sybil, and, Patching a sob with her teeth,
ful. Val," she cried, "And
even, suspeited. i never
never
Three months wigs, Val!"
ly on her impor
me.
"And I didn't come, Craig. I'd
"June that loveg, she whispTidy was hanged." pered through her
I'm so glad."
"Tadi
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to be married very avon. She's this name now being shown at Bank was held at the Head Office British Legion, is making a tour was so auprised at all ing life. nice little girl-nice like I used the Queen's Theatre. The picture of the Bank in York Building, of the West Midland area.
to be. Her name's Kitty, and he is rather on the slow side, and Chuter Road, on Saturday after-
But he Mra, home and quiets she's his ation.
certain parts could very well have non under the chairmanship of
Aged 100 on November 20, wanted me just the same.
Mr. Wong Ngal-tong. Only
been revised to help the continuity The the telephone
The proceedings, which were Mrs. Sarah Field, of Cuckfield, zang-and
of the story, but these
are of a short and formal nature, were
Sussex, received the congratula- technical faults for which the pre-confined to a few remarks by the tions of the Queen. "Sybi➡darling-don't!" i She put her hand against hisducers are responsible. The act Chairman on the results of the ing of Dorothy Gish, and Antonio year's working, and to the election Moreno, as an ardent lover of the of the Directors and Auditors. courtesan, is beyond reproach, The retiring Directors, Messrs. likewise the settings and costumes, T. T. Cheng, Sun Fo, Leung Yan- which are very lavish and appro- po, Wong Jay-yee, Lee Sze-yuen, priste to the period. On the and Philip Bockchun; wera whole, “Madame Pompadour" mayanimously re-elected to the Board, classed as a good picture, one while Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and that offers a distinct change from Fleming were renppointed Audi other films.
She kissed him tray.
"I guess I've something to Evel
for after all. Your baby."
Tips.
"
"Yes, Craig, I've got to. Let ifer hands dropped fly in here; tell you, Craig.”
With a ranch of wildness she lap, and she fell to musing.
"Tad was lovely baly, Valerie.cbatebed his hand.
I relt then beside her, and Such a fine, healthy hoy. And he
toon horold, fingers. in his and never gave me a minute's worry. Sybil was fuggy--but Tad-land held them warmly. She leaned sake's alive. I often said you'd against him, and he was aware never know there was a baby in poignantly of her loveliness and the house.. Teddy, was a good desirability. And the glamour of he her presence, enfolded him as it baby, too. Remember when was cutting these first ceth? The always did. } poor little lamb.....
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When 'n man of profound nature has loved a woman for many years,
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Sybil slipped quietly from the A few minutes later Tad Toom
and been denied the fulfilment of reopen on Monday, January 7. found her at the telephone, '
his love, there may rise from Sybil had worn a black frock to this denial a sort of protective Teddy's funeral, and un her tenderness. A Ture and lovely shoulder a bunch of the anemones thing like a wraith of massimi, she had stattered on his casket, And it embraces the object of his She sat on a high-backed Spanish adoration gently as the perfume chair that she had dragged to the of a summer's night. It is an ex- table
on which the telephone quisite beatitude, and diffuses the stoor, and she rested her head precious fragrance of a gracious wearily against the shield of red dream. and gold that 'ornamented its tall! In some magnetic way Syull felt carved back.
herself enfolded in the spiritual garment of Craig's love.
On the table tall candles cast a wan light on a bowl of while roses that diffused the heavy odour that comes with funerals, and a profu sion of cut flowers.
She sat with her back to Tad, but he caught a glimpse of her pale face in the mirror. And he thought she looked like a peniten- tial little saint In her black dress, with the candles fickerlag, and the breath of mournful sweetness all about her.
She was talking Hatlessly, her lips removed from the transmitter. you expect him shortly? This
is Sybil Thorne. Please tell him I want to see him. Tell him to
But when he raised her hand to his lips, and kissed her fingers, one by one, she drew them away.
"No, Craig. Not yet, I've come to ask you something. But you must hear me first."
"Yes, darling."
He soothed her gently, stroking her knees.
"I've been a bad girl, Craig." "No, no, Little Sweet,"
It was his turn to put fingers across her lips.
said she was his salvation, and hig conipass and everything. And still wanted him to make love to me, You see
I am a very bad, girl,
He was silent.
Craig,"
"And then," she said, "he nakedi me if i had had lovers, Craig. And he came and took me in his arms. And he kisséd me.......... And then the Was
Lelephone rang.....And it Mabel. And Teddy was dead, only
didn't know it then."
"Poor little girl. Sweet little, dear little girl."
He reminded her of a monk on
his knees, telling a litany. A beautiful litany of infinite sweet
ness.
"Oh, my dear. My dear."
"Graig-darling." She put her tips to his car. "I'm not very de- sirable any more. A little while "No, Sybil. Dear little, good ago...when you loved me....i lle girl-No."
hand Teddy: And I was very happy. "But I have, Craig. Listen. The Now Teddy is gone....And I feel man I went to see was John Law very old....Could you love me wait for me,'
rence. He didn't die at all, Craig.now, Craig?" She hung up the receiver, and it was all a mistake, He-he's turned to Tad.
very much alive. Mabel know him "Craig is getting in from New first-only she didn't know he was York this afternoon," she said, John, you see. She thought his and there's something I want to name was Roger Caldwell. He's a ask him. I'm going to drive in real estate agent. And Mabel was town now, Please don't ask me looking for an apartment. And not to, Tud. I will be all right."when the agent came I was there, don't you see? And It was John "I take you in," he offered. "No, I'd rather go alone., You Lawrence, stay with Mother and Val."
He buried his face in her lap. " wish you could," she whis pered, "but if you can't it's all right, Craig. I didn't really think you would. I'm so miserable, you see. Men never love miserable women....Of course, you don't want me....I shouldn't have come. But I wanted to know, Cralg..... I wanted to be sure."
"He'd had amnesia, Craig. Ile
She rose unsteadily to her feet, "I will," he agreed, "if you'll wasn't killed at all. He'd only for- promise to be back by dinner retten. And when he saw me he and when she swayed he caught time."
fainted. And then Mab and I re-lier, and held-her close. And she' "I promise. And Tad-will you|vived him, and he knew me...... was, as sweet in his arms as her do me a favour? Will you put Oh, it's such a dreadfully long Teddy's high chair beside my story, Craig."
He pulled her short skirt down place again? I don't want his things up in the attic. I'd like to over her silken knees, and held keep them around, unti-until we in peace.
have another baby Teddy."
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anemones.
"Oh, my darling. My poor hurt little darling."
"You love me?" she murmured. "I love you so,” he whispered. "And that night," she said, pul-"I love you so......
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She bent to her overshoes; ing as she told It, "I went to see Then she raised her face, all wit "I'm not crying for me," she de-him. I went to his apartment, with tears, and he kissed her pala clared in a muffled Ittle voice. Craig. And I wanted him to make white lids so gently she scarcely "It's for you and Val-because I'm love to me. He told me about the felt his lips.
(The End.)
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