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last,
of water at
' she announced,
ran.
to was slightly annoy -
produced an enamel jus
water—a white enamel bowl
n towel and a sponge bag.
You think of everything, don't
ou?" she remarked feell1Y.
"I try to," he returned calmly.
Later, when he tappedat the door
and asked if they were ready for
breakreet, Miss• Oheveley was fresh
and comfortable, and Gerda too had
made something of a toilette.
Her pretty little nose did not
ebin'e, for there wasa tiny powder,
comnpaot in her bag, the colour was
beginning to return to her cheeks
and her lovely hair was a great
source of consolatton to her. She ,
might not have passed muster with ,
Connie or Eileen, but Diok told him-
self, and not for the first time, that
Gerda Oheveley had a taking little
face, and that her hair locked jolly
against that green frock of hers. I
Gerda would not ,have believed,
had she known, that the faint dark r
smudges beneath, the eyes on that
Some "taking little face" gave Dick
Sellwyn'•s heart some queer twinges.
'I• thought you'd have the table
ready by now," was all he said.
"I can't do everything at once!"
retorted Gerda.
Nevertheless she flew into the
kitchen for a tablecloth and had the
table ready quickly.
"For myself I don't care in the
least,' She remarked loftily, ohecking
him when he would halve deposited
fried eggs and bacon on a stone cold
plate. "But Aunt Anne must bave
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a hot plate."
"Auut Attie does net require a
plate of any kind," put in Miss
Oheveley, as Gerda put three thick
plates, col' ones, deem on the
health,
"learnt an ees I am, Mise +Obey-
efey," exclaimed Dick. "1 might leave
known you wouldn't want solid
stuff like tough young 'beggars. like
Gerda anal. me."
"Don't count me in on ,your eggs
and ba'con," said that young person
lei ly,
"Watt a aecond; went me Dick, not
heeding her. "I know the very
tibing," and he disappeared into the
kltldhen.
Gerda put the Gish down on time
hearth and sat erect at the table,
intending not to eat a single morsel.
But .she was rapidly recovering, and
the eggs, and bacon both .looked and
smelled tempting. By the time Dick
panne back with an egg beaten up in
milk for Miss Anne, be was more
than ready for her *are of the eggs
and bacon.
After Nine meal time pair washed
time breakfast genes, and tidied the
place generally. !
,'I wonder if you can, get along
without me?" asked Dick, "Only for
a couple of hours?"
"We'll thy; said Garde, with icy
sweetness. It will he difficult, of
course, but we will do our poor
best',
eethuek it, Gerda," said Dick in-
elegantly. "We've got to be shut up
here at pretty close quarters for a
bit, and we can't be for ever sparring
wittm each other."
"Two people whho dislike each
other—" began Gerda airily,
"We jolly well don't dislike each
other," interrupted Dick "We like
each other, and you jolly Well know
it, though wild horses wouldn't make
you admit it, you obstinate little
beggar."
"Suet because I am Betty's
cousin," 'began Ge,da, a pleasant
lithe wamim'.th at her heart.
`J;gttY? Betty who?" broke in
Dick anxious to get to work.
"My cousin, Betty Oheveley, the
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SHARPNESS in every picture, with
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Next, there's the matter of cor-
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Or, try pacing it off. If you know the
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The third important point is cor-
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when using a shutter speed slower
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girl you were so struck over that I
You made Connie get her for your
partner at the opening of the new
cinema. Don't pretend you forgot,"
"I remember,' ,said Dick without
great Interest, "'I wish you'd let
me get a word in. I've got a spot of
work that must be done. It's what I
Carne to this hole to d0, and I'nm
amid I'll leave to leave you to your-
selves a good deal. Don't trouble' to
say you'll thy- to survive the tUsap-
pointeneut," he added testily as her
lips opened, "Can yon manage?'
"Yes, I can," returned Gerda as
bluntly as he had spoken,
"I've moved, all my work things
into the next room, and of course,
pail me if you want me," he west on.
"And• I'll rustle up something to
eat in the middle of the day.' •
7'Ilss Anne still seethed to want
nothing but to doze ;before the fire,
and Garda fired with the determina-
tion to "let him see' went into the
kitchen to see wlhat she could do
about the midday meal.
There was tinned soup, and Gerda
found a 'substantial +beefsteaik in the
meat.safe, nailed on to the outside
of the kitchen wall, It was a mercy
the wolf had not found'. it. There
were in addition plenty of potatoes.
The longest, sure cut into paper -thin
slices in reaclin'ees for frying at the
last moment.
Dick had ploughed his way
through the snow for mlitk, and two
great pitchers stood full on, the sihelf.
The sight of 'these filled Gerda with
ambition, she got the ail cooker in
the comer going and made a batch
of fascinating little milk rolls and
sultana buns',
Tined fruit and oheam were in
the paltry, and 'Gerda forgot the
cold in time excitement of "showing
him,"
Her elheeks blazed, her hair
gleamed, her grey eyes glowed, and
she little guesised 'how near she was
bo being soundly kissed when Diok,
at the close of his m'orning's work,
came in,
"You're ten minutes too soon,"
cried Ganda gaily, "I wanted every-
thing to be ready."
"It ,smells good," :said Dick.
"You've not .got that Obstinate
cooker to work and clone all this
yourself?"
The gtratifled Gerda admitted that
she had.
"But don't look so greedy," she
reproved shim.
"I've done a stiff morning's work,"
he laughed,
"And so have I," she pointed out,
Seung discs of golden -brawn pota-
to from a pan of boiling fat,
"I'll say you have," agreed the
Ma -Milne Dick, "I wase going to open
another tin of beet for you, and: me,
and melt down one of those meat
cubes for Miss Cbeveley. This all
looks, jolly good to me."
"Pm going to give Aunt Anne a
little of the soup thinned drown,"
anounlced the amateur cook, "Diok"
she hesitated', "do you think it's ail
night Aunt Anne dozing away there
all this time?"
"I think so," he told her. "The
doctor gave her a sleeping da'aught
last eight, you know."
Her fears eel; at rest, Gerda's
spirits flew up and she began to
eneoy herself.
'Such appetites t" smiled Mise
Ane a. little later, sipping delicate,-
ly at her soup, "I envy you."
When the meal was ended Gerda
delightedly realised tlmamt Dick was
veluctant to return to his work in
the next room, She made quick
Work of washing-up, and led just
finished when the doctor drove up
in a r:ammdheekle old sleigh, which
had been stored in ids barn for
many a long day, awaiting just
such a snow as this.
Froom, the sleigh he extracted a
bundle of clotting, which proved' to
be Grice, peevish, and clinging to a
suit -case,
"I told you so, Miss Gerda, she
snapped, "You'd ne baseness to let
Min Anne go. out yesterday, A Bine
piece,, this, for my lady to be i11 in."
'Don't he funny, +Guice," retorted
Gerdy, "You know neither you nor
I could iteelp Aunt Anne at home if
she meant going cwt; I hope you
leve brought same of my clothes
as; well as ,hers,"
"That I haven't, Miss 'Gerda,"
snapped Grice with trhoniel , "It
took me all my time to collect ,my
ladys things,"
"What a beast you are, Gniee,"
sighed Gerda, 'It wouldiet Leave taken
you two 1netn tea to throw a few of
nip belongings into a case,"
"WINO'S sleigh:?" asked Dick, come
fug into the kitchen,
"Ttmiisl ie Grice, Moll the doctor
beeugtlt her along, weld Gerda,
ildnking
dejected/1Y that elm.e rat
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peoba!b1y condenenad to wear this
one green jumper suit all the time
she was, at the cottage, and alreadY
there was a grease spot on the
front.
'Timis is no place for nmy lady,
delicate as she is," said Grice, as
if the fault were Dick's.,
"It's very good of Mr. Sellwyn to
be bothered with us," said Gerda,
bushing hotly.
"I'm xeady to wait •on my lady,
but 4'm not pr'epar'ed to do any
domestic work," sniffed Grice, who
believed in malting everything clear
from the, start "Ansi I cant cook."
"I can, so that's no consequence,'
'said Garda promptly, as Grice dis-
appeared into the si'ttinlg-room,
"Of all the snpleasant old parties!'
said the amused Dick.
"She's an old beast," said the ag-
grieved Gerda, ,'She never brought
.mo so ma* as a 'single jumper, I
did trope I'd be able to change."
"You look fairly right as you are,"
said Dick,
"I sleamt look even 'lately right'
for long," sighed Garda, "You think
so much of the clothes' a girl wears
that you ought to know that,"
"•I think a lot about a girl's
clothes," said Dick blankly, 'I don't
know anylihing about girls' far-lalls!
"Why, you were knocked nearly slily
the Mist time you set eyes on rhe
belcause I was the World's worst
d'owd'," driest Gerda, shaking out a
damp cleel1.eloth. "You like every
other' man, judge a girl by the
•snnaattfesis of her clothes You'd
nerve'' fall in love wit!, a dowd,
you'd nevem want to kies a dowd.
What are you staring at ane like
that for?"
"You're not sanart at this moment•'
aai'el Dick, a glint in lie' eyes.
"There's grease on your frock, a.nd
a donut on your nese, and' yet I'm
going to kites, you,"
Geeda'sr eyes and mouth went
round as mangles, but she ,stepped opo
nlm,bly' back, and before Dick oould •
putt its, threat into ertecution the ,2,*
doctor opened. the 'door of the sti
sitting -room,
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Gerda. "I should a'atlrer think we
can,"
"1 wouldn't describe it as gorgeous
myself; said' time doctor, "It's held
together mainly by string, Sellwyu,
it you'd give tuts• note to my despen-
ser and bring back the packet she'D
give you, 1'11 be obliged. By the way,
Collins swears, he'll have your gore
for shooting hie wolf. The village
mothers went to decorate you, so
to speak, and the village fathers
have tossed the dead wolf over
Collin's• park wail with a message
pnomiisdng to have his gore if he
gaits' any more 'taane' wolves."
"Pools who cares?" scoffed Gerda,
her eyes' sparkling, sihrugging her-
self into her coat.
"You'll be frozen, in that," said
Dick, wrapping himself up as' if for
a polar expedition, and he looked
amiaund. Here; have these," he said,
awaking ler in a couple of Grice's
rejected shawls.
It was, fun, gliding through the
snow in the crazy old sleigh, be-
hind a 'brown horse that was gigantic
by comparison, wumose belle jingled
, dlseealfully, and whces heels -peril-
ously ,close --kicked the loose
feathery snow into. their faces.
! "However did Grice survive a
louamey in this?" gurgled Gerda
joyoustg as an unusually large
otlso:wer of snow flew into their eyes.
The still, cold air whipped a
gloriouts colour into Gerda's cheeks,
the bright halo sprayed about the
edges of her beret with the gilt clip.
Dick took her _breath away by
saying without warning—
"You can't say its the attraction
of your rig -out, for you remind me
of a mummy in Mice's snuff -coloured
thele~ —(but I'm not going to be done
out of that kiss,"
The reins were in one 'hand, but he
;slid the other arm around Gerda,
W110, both arms tucked inside those
mumtnylike wrappings, was helplesrt
for the moment.
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