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By Susan kedgrave
Tiea'e. Aides' Cheveley called out, reechod, Gerda shivered. Wtt)inut
e I4 an!
and Gerda ficiv into the !sitting -room, wcitd, and still Bolding a wedge oe
teoling as 1a running a 'refrigerator beef and 'bread and butter in one
to a q„",Nouse.
',That's a sensible man," Miss
Anne approved. ',He said exactly
what J knew he would, and he was-
n't tee'stupiel as t0 thrust his owe
•opinions down any throat. He's
sending Grine along 'tomorrow—if
she can get fhroaah the snow, that
is."
"Who's Grioe?" demanded Dick,
when later the Pair found- them-
hetnd, Dick tau nps'tairs, 'bringing
down a canters chair dressing gown
ugly, large as a tent, but oh, so
comfortable wftien 11e wrapped it
about her shoulders.
"T -thank you very much,' said
Gerda p'lainljY as her :chattering
teeth permitted. "It would be toe
awful if 1 :caught a Chill and was
laid up, too."
"Titers',& teemething in theft," as -
selves: again in the icy kitchen. seated Dick coldly, resuming his
• "Gripe has been Aunt ,Anne's maid ,seat on the corner a the table.
"I :suppose." said !Miss Gerda
Cheveley, swinging her crossed
ankles, a bully beef 'sandevich in one
hand, a cup of steaming coffee in
the other, "you're afraid I shall
anything she wants to do," edte said throw ale the work on to you,"
darkly, doing something with cos- "I'm afraid of nothing of the
densed milk and water in a sauce- kind," he retorted. "You'll Ibe expeot-
gan over the oil stove. ed to do your fair share.
Gerda looked .a little dashed. She
"Is this, what you alwaiys have for was, quite prepared to do anything
supper?" she acquired mussily, and everything that was required of
though she was hard (rut to it to her, but she eisliked having it "ex
keep her teeth from chattering. peetedl'
„This is far you, and Miss "I'll do the easy things and leave
1Jheveley!" he exclaimed. "I') apes , the rest to you and G'rice."
ing a tin of bully bees for myself" "Wale see,' said Dick, briefly,
"I'll have spline, too," announced his :chin seating in hard, lines, He
Gerda. "I'nt so hong'', I could nearly took a. large semi -circular bite out of
eat the 'tin, too!" his sandwich, his eyes fixed Provoce-
Mdss Anne kala: 'slept, striped tively on her.
Geeds. flung up her head and was
about to make Herself as diasgree
able es she knew how, when she
eaupht sight of herself in the square
of cloudy looking glass hanging
I :roan a nail in the wall.
She was, so enchanted by what she
tor ages," said Gerda.
,'What!" ejaculated Dick, ' horri-
ped. "Two helpless old ladies to
look after instead ot only one?"
"Griee isn't helip'lesls, ,she oan do
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she sad -coloured dressing gown,
"'li'hon you have finimhed admiring
yourself In the mirror,' said .Diol
dryly, "it might be as well for you
to take a look at Miss CheveleY."
"If 'You'd been an ugly duckling
as long as I 'suave, you'd admire
yoursele when you turned into a
swan by comparison," said the un-
abashed Gerda, "You'd never
unglue your eyes from the glass)"
hot milk and drowsed again, and
Dick and Gerda, fearing to disturb
Iter, e;jinip'eti taut again into tluat re
frigeartor oS a kitchen, upon whose
ice the Beatrice stove anode small
impreesion. There, perched on 00-
po:stte corners, of the deal table, for
OHAPTIOR V,
Cinderella Back in the Kitchen.
Next morning, so early that the
light was only just 'beginning to
creep 'greyly round blue edges of the
blinds, Gorda sunt up very straight
in .the crazy basketwork chair where,
rolled in Dick ,Seilwyn''s dressing
gown over her clothes., Mho had
spent the night.
Twice during tuiose long 'hours
Dick had, tiptoed in from the adjoin-
ing nonan, that ibelougng tot the
second of the converted cottages, to
snake up the fire. .So quietly did he
go about :the 'business' that Miss
Cheveley slant quietly on in her
nest of Mune and mugs, but each time
Gerda opened a sleepy eye. -
Now, :suddenlly, she was wide
'awailce, and ,the was certain that it
was, something to do with the wolf
thathad disturbed her. She listened
but heard nothing, then shuffled
cautiously across the floor „in the
large pigskin slippers. Disk had
placed on the rug for her last night.
She Deesed a corner of a curtain
anal peered out. There, lhhongh the
light was scarcely toff the edge of
darkness, retie isatw the 'dhapeless
bulk of the car, Mee . a hay stack
badly made, wits', its load of :snow.
As her eyes grew more .accustomed
to the gloom, Gerda :saw that Some
of :the snow had been scraped away.
a door forced open', :she had probably
not shut it pro•bealy the night before
and that—yes, a thrill .ran down
Gerda's spine, •tihere was the wolf
himself clawing and biting at a
ilaa•cel.
That must be the two pounds ot
sausages they had gat from the •only
shoe Miss, Anne drought could' supply
sausages worth eating. The brute
I
was welting the meat •betore her
very eyes—and those sausages
might have been so,useful
She slvuflle-shuffled in the yast
slippers to the inner door. Dick must
have been awake, too, for as her
hand touched the door it opened and
there he stood. He had tsnent the
night in his clothes before the fire .
he had huitlt in this second' room.
"'Tote wolf," anou bed Gerda, •as
he bent his head to hers,
the kitchen did not possess a chair. saw that she forgot to be disagree -
they ate brolly beef and •ohumlce of able, forgot even to go on taking
bread and butter, winding Up with sips of coffee and (bites of sandwich
yet more saps of the invaluable bot I alternatellry. Even try the unsatisfao-
eoffee.• tory light of the one tin lamp nailed
Before, however, this stage was on the wall, Gerda admired herself
,.,c• I with all her heart. ..
' A clear, lovely red glowed int her
! cheeks, her eyes were wide and
Istarry—and her hair! For the bun-
' clt'edth time Gerda blessed the I ex-
quisite "perrm." Not a wisp blemished the effect, and its: brightness was
1 all the more vivid by entreat with
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Dick nodded and: closed (his door
'soundlessly.
"He's not going to. have: all the
fun to himself, so he needn't think
it," thought the younger Miss
Oheveley.
She shuffled into the 'kitchen and
but on her thick little calf -skin
brogues•. She got into her tweed
coat with the fur collar and the
jaunty littlte beret to match.
The wind had dropped, but it was
unbelievably cold out of doors, and
the snow had, stopped falling.
Mere was no woll in tthe front
garden, nor any Diel: Sellevyny only
a enangeed packet of sausages in the
snow, ees,'
Floundering about, Gerda 'followed
the footprints as far as the gate, but
dared go no farther afield lest her
aunt ehoutjd wake, it eeemed al-
together too tame, to go quietly back
into the cottage witeti, a wolf hunt
was on se Gerda struggled to the car
and abetnacted robe vasvome parcels,
foutunatelly most at them food stuffs,
and ',bestowed them in the kitchen.
There was 51111' no sign of Dick,
and, as Mies'Oheveley was sleeping
:sweetly, Gerda went out again. The
light was ietrengtivening now, and
the blood red edge of the sun came
up over the: horizon, slanting red
rays across the snowy fields,
Trite ,sharip crack ot 'a rifle made
Gerda jump.
"He's getting all the fun to him -
sell after ell," she tduo:aght resent-
fully, !Consequently when Dick
abrade into sight, a vigorous figure
outlined in black against the gorge -
ons sunrise, sire was irresistibly
ianmpellete to, pelt slim with snowballs
Oue caught him hull to the £eco.
and wipinv .away the snow, he looked
wra lldullry round to eve who had
thrown It, Gerda was bending to
manufacture a second ball. As her
hands ibut'ied bhemeeives in: the snow
it was as: if ice ran through every
vein in her body.
Tlhe glowing sunlight went black
before GGerda's eyes, awl, the next
tithing :the knew was Dick Selwyn
gslagpdng her by the stem, holdieg her
MI to her .lett, peering into her
oaten facet.
"What's the matter?" he jerked
out.
Gerda wars beyond) robe power of
siebbng any nester, Ila Iver dile rest -
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all right," said Mies Cheveley ,om-
foitably. "TO1e 'se 'saane thing lisp -
,pend when she wast at school. The
entire fore went out snowballing
before brealafast, and those that
didn't faint were violently sick. Not
one, I beilieve, escaped. There's
nothing to Worry ahouL"
"That's Aunt Anne all over;
thought the indignant Gerda, "She
wont let you have one htneh of gilt
on your gingea{bread."
Dick caane in wi:tiv a cup o!
coffee and when' :she shot a glance 1
at his ianpertuttbable brown. face
Gerda was sure she had ,
invagined that queer, throbbing uote
in his deep voice. This, severe look-
ing personage could not have called
her his darling little Gerda.
"Thanks, so, much, but you really
need not have bothered," she drawl-
ed, trying to persuade 'herself, and
lvinn, thea she was perfectly all right,
"So I understand" he said, "As
the coffee is here you may as well
drink it."
With the air of one doing him a
favour, but inwardly very thankful,
red sky was still jet :black and the
.solid earth an unsteady place, mak
ing it necessary far Iver to hang on
to the nearest object.
This. happened tte be Dick Se'llwyn,
and she clung to Man as if for dear
life.
She- wars orally just aware that he
laid, his guns down and •carried her
into the cottage, into the second of
the sitting -roosts'.
Dick put her into the old windier
annuthlair in which he had passed the
night, and thane, befiore the , still
good fisc, Iva went down on his knees
and chafed Gerda's dhilded hands,
"What is it? What's happened to
you?" the repeated in ate agony of
apprehension.
Ag of it really mattered to him,
thought Gerda etazily, her head loll-
ing helplessly on a cushion that
felt ate of stuffed with socks.
"Gerda, say something," urged
Dick, from what seemed to her an
inuuvense distance. "Gerda•, my
dulling little Gerda!"
He couldn't really be saying this,
the still anuzzy-headed Gerda re-
flected. et was this black cloud
which, mast unaccountably, hung
between her and the world nand gave
her ttiltese wild fancies,
'Somehow, with a tremendous
effort, she 'dragged her eyelids open, '
and her eyes tried to fix thems.elvee
Gerda sevailowed the coffee, and ate
last, with footsteps that wavezedt ss
trifle, sive went into the next ruga.
"You leek as healthy as a father
candle," remmiked Miss Oheveli wi
"You Should have known better Mum
ao splay that fool's trick twice anus'
Make as many mistakes as yes. gime
girl, but in the name of commonsense
let them he frets ones;"
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on his face, which appeared to
wob'bie absurdly,
"It's the snow! 3 put my hands
into itt" she .murmured !so low that
he could: scarcely ectal' the words,
and to frim they didn't snake sense.
The heavy line sank again, and the
distracted Dick feared he would
have to• rouse Miss! :Cheveley, after
all, for advice.
Last night he had placed a batter-
ed o'IlI cow bell oil the ,table' beside
Mies tellteveley's comb, and at this
moment he heard It ring,
'Has Gorda been out in the snow?"
allIs asked, 10 Itis relief neat appear:
ing agitated. "Sally girl, she should
have known 'Better Shan to stoat
snewiialtiug on an empty stomach!"
Gerda heard Meese unromantic
words, as clearly as if )she had been
le he moan, and site was sntfficiently
herself to be annoyed at this: way of
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