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MY SON, MY SON!

Continuing Howard Spring's

What ironical purpose there may be behind these things, or what harsh, mean- Ingless caprices of a Fate more stupid than cunning. 1 do not know; but it was while returning from her de- votions at Chapel one evening that winter that Nellie was struck by an automobile. The injury was serious; by the time reached her bedside she was dend.

With an unreasoning feeling of gullt that no amount of monalia- Ing could altogether duen, I wore mourning for ber for nearly 4 year not only on my coatsleeve. but in the brooding, melancholy thoughts hint dogged the

But when, at the end of Die year, we all moved to London, my past life with Nellie erned to recede almost abruptly, i herded Dennot's urgent plea to consider thi new move na advance into new life, a fresh page of my exis- tence; and to Shello's imperious. symbolic gesture of salpping the mourning bands from the sleeves of all my conis,

began to take a renewed in- terest in my work. Many years ago Dermot's daughter Maeve, then

little Kiri A fery

more devoted

to pluy-acting than to mastering her ABC's, hnd tensed me to write a play for her to perform when she grew up.

Now Maeve was a lovely young woman of eighteen, with a pule, elin face and eyes a kindle with had inherited the Inner-fire she from her parents.

She had spent the previous sum- mer touring the provinces in u stock company, getting experience In the fundamentals of acting. Now she renewed her demands that 1 write her play.

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nce, in especial, earned her numeroits curtain calls Arist ringing cheurs,

After the theatre there Who great party at our London house The company WILM Irant, the

one of Kreat joy

Decision

For

the Arst time siner my Yorkature Experience, I was akmast happy

I was fitting with Maeve and Dermot

UK when young girl entering

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"Yes. Yes, of course."

"You're not very hospitable," she exelmed, going to the fre

He

"You shouldn't have come

- had to.

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Because I know what you're thinking about Oliver and Clivet and you're so wrong! bus absolutely no clien on me After all, every womat meets men who ary attracted to her who call facu durling" **

"But Oliver in my son "Don't dramatise that angrity

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"True, Oliver Take me about, Birt a Ittle.

I ever told never encouraged him (1

him about you that I'd met man i could never forget. And to-night 1 told him that you were that tra"

The room i the opposite end, cought my eye I grew rigid, and stared

us she slowly crossed the room could not be mistaken it was sh+"'

1

Leaving the astonkdied Maeve in the middle of a sentence, 1 strir toward her She seemext aware of my uppouch, and stepped out to comparative privacy o

the

Balcony

I spoke to her, my voue tiembl g with excitement

"true! There can't be this much hoppiness for one than What brought you

No Je don't tell me. Let me think it was Euger for something to work on, and spurred by

miracle, seal from beuven the child's en- thusiasm, I sat down and dram- my dear atised my novel, “Every Street,"

For sometime the London pro- ducer, Wertheim, had been beg- ging me to do just this; when finally turned the play script over to him I extracted his promise that Macve should play the lead, provided only that slie showed her- self capable.

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"Every The opening of Strect", was one of the bril liant affairs of the London season,

Not least among its joys for me was the fact that Ollyer had been graduated from Balliol and had nt last come home to live with me, Sul his jaunty, chartning, undis- ciplined self, he had gone through the University mainly on his nerve and on his uncanny ability to bluf himself out of scrapes, backed by Hory O'Riordan'a help in patching up the broken places of many a situation after him.

Now Oliver was home, to my Intense delight, and' affably, casual- ly accepted all the luxuries, the expensively furnished rooms, the clothes, the lavish pocket. money I was ready to provide him with.

While we finished dressing "for the opening of my play,. Öliver rhapsodised to me over the charms of the young women who was to accompany him He met her, it seemed, at the home of Pogson, his classmate whose father owned the coal mitie. Her name Išvla Vaynol, la

Was

"Ah, short for Olivia, I suppose," I smiled. "Oliver-Ollvis. Quite harmonious. What's she Ilka?"

Wait till you see her!"

Hm. Pretty

Oliver?"!

#Rather!"

hard hit

The play was a manifest hit, the audience more enthusias tic oven than most first-night audiences. Maeve's perform-

Oh.

"You didn't forget," she whis pered, her eyes shining.

"Forget Do the stars forget to shine? Do the flowers forget to bloom? If you knew the thing I've

helpless done pursuing females up dark streets, peering under umbrellas and Buying 'Pardon me, Madamn-1 thought you were but you see, 1 don't even know your name! For wil bese

I've only

Io inuntho

been able Think of you

sweet my AN IDY

What is your jove-my darling! nome?"

"Livla."

"Livin." The dreadful realisation

"Livial" began to overcome me.

to

Before she had chance

L speak Oliver barged over to us. with "There you are darling!" My sickening fear was confirmed. With great nir of proprietorship und of ensy intimacy. he told her they must leave at once for a late supper at the Pogsons'.

Livia hesitated, trembling, wish- Ing to say something, perhaps not knowing quite what, I stood miser- ably, with shock, cut to the marrow by Oliver's jeering tone. Then Derimot found us, and be fore. I could speak, dragged me Indoors to acknowledge a toast.

"A toast, ladies and gentlemen, to the happiest man in London!" echoed him.

All raised their glasses and

"To the happiest man in Lon- dont":

The guests had long since gone, but I knew the futility of going to bed, of trying to sleep. Alternately, staring in- to the fire and pacing the floor, I scarcely heard the knock on the living room door.

Again the knock, louder. I went to the door. There she was, look- ing pale and tense. I looked nt her allently,

"Aren't you going to ask me. in?" she demanded at last.

She Jooked 1 tae hopefully.

shaky ttle smile. Att

For ม long time I said nothing. Then, despauingly.

"Why don't you go? Why can't you leave the in pence”

You

Would you be in peace if left

"No," I acknowledged bitterly. "But even if Oliver trients nothing to you, you

something to theon him. I'm not going to take youŁ away froth bum."

"Take me awny)" she cried an- "What am I a chnir, a Krily fable, a desk? Why, you've spent giving thiga ta your whole life

But won't be ginen!" Oheer

She urged me to go to Oliver. to tell him that she and I loved the other. He was unly a boy-- I would forget. Still I refused, will I asked her to go away. "I go away," said Livia 20 out of your

if you'll do just one thinst. Look in my eyes k! say these simple words Livia Vaynai, 1 don't love you,"

life.

That wave, mnd I'll go."

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FUNNY SIDE UP

"You don't have to sneak in doar

atsle.

you to-night!"

If I went too far to-night, You do believe I terribly sorry. Je, don't you father?"*

I did believe him, and said so. Soon I found myself apologizing to Oliver for having mentioned the incident. Ha forgave me mognani- mously, and we shook hands on I settled back in my chair with vast feeling of relief, and asked him for a cigarette.

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Just any

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She stood quite close to me. furved myself to look into her eyes.

"Livin Vaynol, 1

-don't--"

As once before, she was sudden-

ly in my arms, and i was wild-

1 love you ly kissing her

1 shall love you forever

and ever!"

and

and

Oliver took the news of to Livia in my engagement such apparent goud part that I felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

Be professed to be philosophlent about it: the best man had won. that was wH. Now truly Dermat's toust seemed to have come true, for I felt that I was indeed the bup-

in London. piest man in

We did not at once set the date but I intended for our mariage, that our engagement should be a short

In the meantime iny befoved Livia came to spend the lovely weeks of that early sum- us in the birt of 1914 with

nt Heronwater, rambling house

and painting kiing on the beach scuncupes from the nearby cove.

Toward the chise of one of those long, 'azy June afternoons Livia relurted From a day pointing evidently tense and disturbed. She had accomplished almost no- thing all day; and when I teased her about it she amazed me by bursting into tears,

ter

During dinner her distraught mood sceined to continue. But Oliver, who had been out malling during the afternoon, was a rare spirits. He proposed an ironical Loust to his "dear stepmommo"; and on learning that Livia had wept un returning from the cove, pressed her morcilessly to tell why. I listened, perplexed, and when dinner was over I asked to speak to Oliver alone. He led me to his room...

I asked Oliver to explain, his. conduct toward Livia during din- ner. "You weren't with her this afternoon, were you, Oliver?" "Why, I was out sailing." "You didn't come ashore, by any chance, and join her?"

"Of course not, father. If Livia's upset about anything, I had nothing to do with it. I've tried to make this rela-.. tionship between the three of us as congenial as I could.

And I thought, my conduct to- ward Livia had been irreproach-

Oliver reached into his sweater -the one he had worn during the afternoon--for a package of ciga- of the unc sleeve elles. On sweater | suy a smear of blue paint plainly the same paint Livia had been using thant

day, seized the sweater from his hands id numbly looked at the paint.

"Oliver."

out I burst

at lust.

You "You're a bar and a cheat! trere with Livin! That's how her canvas got smeared! That's why seune home unhappy and tor- your what.nli mented! That's glbes meant at dinner"

Caught hands down, be at first Tried to shrug it off, while my on- ger and my sense of miserable dis- illusionment heightened.

"When I was n boy," I told him, "I was poor and cold and hungry. But i bnd a dream that kept I would One day 1730 Wim. bave a sun and my son would have everything I'd give him all the things I'd missed-everything he dreamed of. And that's what 1 did for you-mny God forgive

me!'

Oliver packed up and left the house, refusing to come back or to see me in his lodg- inga.

My object misery Increased; for though I had become fully aware of the boy's true character, the hold he had on my deepest affec- the summer tions remained. As passed and the autumn wore on I chased working: I saw Livin less and less frequently; I tried in 'a thousand ways to see Oliver, or at least to get some werd to bim, but

in vain.

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"I did everything I could to stop Oh, slr-what- it," she sobbed. ever tre we going to do? She's been ill so much lately. I thought After all, he's you ought to know. your son." 1 went

once to sec poor Maeve. With rain courage, al- most matter-of-factly, she admil- led to me what had happened.

"You mustn't blame Oliver, dar- iing. I began all this."

But why Oliver?" I cried.

never even liked him!

hlad all this, Mueve?"

"You What's be-

"You see, when Oliver left you,

I thought I ought to keep an eye

That on him.

it he didn't lose touch with all of us he might come tu hi scnses and make it up with And, you So I saw him-otten. naturally enough I suppose, he leading think I'd been

At any Perhaps I hnd.

cre lo

him on. rate"

The solution, the only one pos- sible, seemed clear to me. She had done what she had done for Oliver, Oliver's suke-nd mine.

she insisted, knew nothing of her present situation; but I did, and I was there to make the only pos- I fold sible

of form

omends. Mueve

"But what about Livia?"

I could not answer; but my have shown In my agony must

surer, Maeve burst into tears and threw her arms around my neck. her like that-and "You love yet you'd marry me! Oh, man, you make me proud!"

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Anti-Vichy Feeling Grows

In Syria R.A.F.

Its

CAIRO, Sept. 26 (Reuter)- Further signs of increasing feel- ing In Syria against the Vichy Government were reported here to-day.

The events of that fateful sun- mer made their impact felt upon. It is stated that when General de us all. When war was declared and Kitchener issued his first call for Rory volunteers, Dermot's, son came home from a protracted vinit in Ireland and promptly joined up.

Gaulle intervened at Dakar, numbers of French officers and civilians were arrested by the authorities.

Oliver Jolned with him in the same regiment. Maeve throw her self with all her vast energy into a rigorous round of entertainments for soldiers on leave; and I heard vaguely that she was seeing a Food deal of Ollver in London,

It was from Aunie, Mueve's old servant, that I learned of the girl's plight.

On the evening of Oliver's and Rory's departure for France the good old dame come to mno, 'Learfully.

The reason for the arrests' is not known, but it is beloved that restive elements, have been openly showing dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs and have been demonstrat- ing their loyalty to General de Gaulle.

Dividend Declared

The Directors of the Union Insur ance Society of Canton, Ltd., have declared on Interim Dividend of 12 ad. (Twelve shillings and six pence) per share on account of the year 1940 payable on the 15th November.

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Berlin Raid

Special to the "Telegraph"

LONDON, Sept. 26 (Domel)-The attack on Berlin which was carried out by Royal Air Force planes last night and this morning for the fourth time in this week, was officially describ ed as the longest and severest aerial onslaught that has been frillicted on the German capital since the start of the hostilities.

The all-clear signal was sounded supplies power for the city's largest. only at 4 o'clock in the morning aer industrial concerns. AAST

Salvoes of heavy explosives were strong forces of British bombers had attacked military objectives in the claimed to have been dropped on the Berlin area, the industrial suburbs Schoneberg railway yards, threa north of the elly being the main miles southwest of the city, and the targets.

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