Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 106, 21 March 1916 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1916

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"Oh, rot!" retorted Leveredge. "Ton n't get me to swallow that Hower well, we'll call ' It off eh? So 'g, old chap! Perhaps one day youTl . me Into the secret; or well, who

:ows? I may find It out for myself. t Mrs. Brooke met ber husband at i atchington Station. She had driven 'here from the Laurels In a smart little ralll-car, drawn by a sleek roan cob. She looked pale and anxious, and when she saw that ' Godfrey was alone a look of undisguised disappointment crossed her fact. Brooke came toward her with his genial face wreathed in a great smile cf welcome. If she would have let him ho would have taken her proudly in Ms arms there and then and kissed in front of the porters, statlonister and everyone else. ;"15ack at last, little woman," he ' -ckled delightedly, as he took her i and pressed it tightly to his side. ' ! nd I'm so glad to be back! It ha3 sed such a long day!"

She hardly appeared to hear him. Her thoughts were far away. - i "So so Mr. Crawley didn't come with you?" she asked. "Ob, no previous engagement, the brute!" answered Brooke. "Isn't he coming down later?" she ventured, tremulously. Brooke shook his head. "No; he's much too busy with, far more Important things. He's taking his fair Eva to the theatre." - -,.. She winced, and an angry gleam of color flashed into her face. "How do you know?" she answered, with sudden calm. . - "I've seen him," answered Brooke, carelessly. "Went round and looked him. up. Found I'd finished an hour before I expected, so I went round and had a look at the picture : "What picture?" she gasped, stopping and facing him in sudden alarm. "Why, Crawley's .'Circe,' of course," replied Brooke. ....

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HI wife stared at him speechlessly. She could not credit the evidence of her senses.' Godfrey had seen the "Circe"! It was Impossible. Her brain reeled. ' Before she could say another word, before she had begun to recover from the . shock his announcement had caused, he said. In the . most matter-of-fact tone in the world: A "And I've bought the picture from Leveredge. It's a big thing; but I think I know the very place where it will hang. Good old Crawley! He's

got a great future before him, .If I'm not very much mistaken. He can paint

there's no doubt about that. You

ought to get him to' paint your por

trait, DL Why not eh? You haven't

seen the 'Circe, have you? It's a wonderful piece of work. Jove, he-had a

pretty model! Lovely creature!"

Mrs. Brooke could do nothing but gasp In sheer' amazement. She could

not trust herself to articulate a word. Brooke chattered on, unconscious of the effect his words and manner were having upon his wife. " He told her of his doings In the city, rambling on in a variety of topics, but he might as well have been talking to a brick wall. She was totally oblivious. Brooke Asks Her to Go Carefully. It was certainly not due to Mrs. Brooke that they were not upset a dozen times on the drive from the railway station to the Laurels, for she was quite unconscious of the fact that the sleek little cob was particularly fresh and that the road was rather busy and the light bad. "I say, old girL steady on there!" exclaimed Brooke as they took a sharp corner on one wheel. "YouH

have ns over If you aren't a bit careful:': , It was this that suddenly pulled her up and brought her down, to the ordinary plane of existence. She took in the reins and forced herself to watch the cob. v ' Meanwhile Brooke chattered on gaily, making a variety of plans for the future that long-delayed holiday to the south - of France which . had been the dream of the last two years their ' second honeymoon, as' he called it. They were to start next week, he told her. Already he had engaged rooms at the Riviera Palace at Monte Carlo, - and a compartment on the' Riviera express. . He was full of his plans, like a. boisterous schoolboy on ".tie eve 'of well-deserved and long-anticipated holiday. ? "And I want you, Di, to be queen of the whole thing, he said. "Your word- Is to -be - law-. Anything and everything you want Is yours for the asking. I am your slave. You are my empress. Oh, my love, what , a

wonderful thing it Is to have yon all for my very own! ! wonder If there are two such perfectly happy people In all the wide world as you and I?" What ji hideous mockery it all was! What a veritable devil's farce! The woman heard his words, but they awakened no other response - In her heart but one of annoyed indifference, if not something more nearly approaching to actual antipathy. r ' , . -"Aren't you glad, little girir he whispered, with -all the warm Ardor Of a lovef thrilling his deep, gruff voice. Tell me that you're glad!" 7 r X)fl course I'm glad," she answered irritably, -and struck the cob viciously with the -whip, - "It will be Bplendid, of course. And .yon are awfully good to me, Godfrey-Hnuch too good!". v; Her answer satisfied the man? he did not demand much, in the way7 of expression. His was a reserved nature, and reserve and ". self-control were the twin-god in ..his life, He worshipped them even '.in " his love passages.;" ( 'r--?-r

"And dont forget, my sweetheart.' he said, "that yon can spend as much money as you like. 'Buy yourself all the pretty frocks yon want. You've got your check havent you? Ten thousand ought to go a Ions; way with a dear little economist like yon, but if you iwant . more well, he laughed ' happily, as indeed he could afford to "there's more where that came front, you know. "And you've had a beast 'of a time all the while I've been making it out there under -the sun, with the niggers a beast of a. time; but you've come through it like a brick. Now it's only fair for you to have your time; and, by Jove, little girL I'm going to see you get it!.-; ? -V l"Co Be Continued. .

; - .The French' woman who has received word ' of her 3 husband's safety In a German prison camp after writing 200 unproductive ' letters' is a strong believer In perseverance and one of those who have profited by it.

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