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Week-End

By Edmund Fancott

CHAPTER FOUR PEGGY'S excitement over the week-end suddenly faded to dismay. ghd her SRI face melted into a pout “But My ar she wailed. ‘I've 1 1 to wear!” glamorous ideas rty. check them replied her ont need anything an your swim suit

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson

Leigh. It was odd she had blance before.

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It boded no good | for some man—or men. She won-| dered what went on behind that] lively face. One got so much in the habit of thinking of one’s own familv as just a collection of younger brother rs and sisters that one often forgot they had lives of their own| and were living their own thoughts| end feelings independently of the | rest of the family. | “No,” said , Myrg, wondering whether it would be wise after all to take her sister away, “you needn't worry about clothes. The place is puried miles away from anywhere.” “That just shows how little you khow about anything” replied Peggy with a toss of the head. Myra's evebrows lifted, but she |

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THE NEXT day Myra was sent f:

the office of Mr. Ransom she saw the coppera desk. There was gomething familiar about her that] puzzled Myra and she could not) place it. Something that made the girl seem out of place at a desk. | However, she greeted her with al smile and the girl was equally cor- | dial. { Myra stopped on impulse, ! “Do you remember that officer you saw me with on the train yesterday?” The girl blushed faintly and! Myra decided that she did. An irresistible urge toward matchmaking was upon Myra and ghe pressed her questi. “We are going up to Ferdy Lerten's place, this week-end, The artist, you know. I was wondering if you would care to join us? It's all very informal, but he has an aunt up|

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and as an alibi for anxious parents! —if your parents are the kind. Again the girl smiled slightly and ggain Myra wondered what it was! ebout her that she could not place, “Don '‘t bother to let me know now.” said Myra “Telephone me at the office if you would care to join us.” That afternoon Myra telephoned Ferdy. “I've booked her,” she said. “She| called half an hour ago to say she would come.” Ferdy laughed. name?” “Fav Ransom, daughter of the stockbroker.” ] Ferdy whistled at the other end of the telephone. “Fay Ransom?" “Do vou know her?” asked Myra. But Ferdy was in a Pupkish mood. He laughed aloud and off. “Darn you.” mumbled the buzstfig telephone. Rat are vou up te, Ferdv Lortol®” She shrugged and replaced the receiver. Wasn't Fay likely to be enough of a problem without adding mystery | = = i FERPY'S PLACE in the lovely Laurentjans was just 88 miles from Montreal, yet as secluded as if it had beer built upon the est erag in the Canadian Tucked away off the beaten track in a countryside of dirt roads, end wooded hills, it was a

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large estate and had a home farm |

complete with a French-Canadian!

family who did the chores for | Ferdy.

The house itself was a low,

‘sprawling affair which had grown charmingly as extra space had been | {added to the original cottage. It there who looks after the place) Was set on a great outcrop of rock dinary happens. Who else?”

iat the very foot of a low hill, and

anxious its windows gazed out on every side|listened patiently.

over the treetops of thickly wooded hillsides. It was comfortably furnished and equipped because Ferdy spent a great deal of hig time there, working outdoors or painting in the studio built onto the house while his aunt attended to the housekeeping.

He arrived there alone a day be-!

fore he expected his guests and an-

Ineunced to his aunt that she could |}, expect a houseful of guests for the

week-end. She looked at her favorite nephew with a quisgical smile. “Well, it's nice to know in advance. Usually you arrive unannounced hordes of strange people with you. She was a small woman, so com= pletely composed under all circum-

Eraneee that it seemed as if the intoicalm of the Laurentian country

‘had become an essential part of

her nature. Conveniently, too, she

was thoroughly conditioned to | Ferdy’ s whimsies in the way of!

| guests.

"Do I knew any of the people who are coming up?” she asked. Ferdy wandered around the wide lounge, aerass to the plate -|window that filled an aleave gave an Jninstrupted view great of the esuntry. “Yes ° is at least one you like, a Mack.”

“Ha,” replied his aunt. “I hope, {nothing is going to happen then” “Wiat on earth do you mean?” [asked Ferdy with a grin. “You know very well,’ said his aunt. “She is a very nice girl with a lot of character, but every time {she comes here something extraor-

Ferdy listed the others. His aunt

“Must you always be asking com{plete strangers up here?” Ferdy grinned. He turned back |to his aunt and lifted a cautioning finger at her. “You know very well you are as bad as I am. You always say that nothing is so fascinating as the latest crop of young things. I'm merely pandering to your curiosity and bringing up a fair selection.” She smiled her admission of what he said. “True. All the same, that Mack girl has a flair for complications. We'll have anything from a eircus to a triple wedding before this week-end is aver.” . (Te Be * Continued)

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