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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1942-12-16, Page 2eart ppm Gold !y Pat Moore C=am When .she bed once more tucked them safely up into their cots, elle went downstairs to tell David the good news. ,n m CHAPTER VI. David Asks A Question. "And now." said Jean, when lhey had finished exulting over the good news, "]rave you had any dinner?" "Frankly;" admitted David, "I have not." "Oh, you poor thing!" said Jean, in tones of deep repentenoe. "1 .dragged you out on a wild goose chase, when all the time you must have been longing for something to eat." "Don't bother to apologise," he laughed. "I couldn't have eaten my dinner in peace- while there was any possibility that the twins might have been at the bottom of Bowmere Ponds, Poor little souls," he aided "it must be dreadful to wart a thing es badly as they wanted to go and sail their boats and not be allowed to have it!" "Don't talk like that!" Jean im- plored him. "You make me feel a most awful beast for refusing to take thein to -day, but really I haven't time, and, anyway, I'm go- ing to take them tomorrow without fail." "Why couldn't we both take them to -morrow?" suggested David. "I eau run you all there in the car." "Does that mean that you want to spend the night here," asked Jean quickly. He nodded. "Yes, please, if you've got a room vacant and it isn't any trouble to you to put me up." "Visitors are never any trouble," retorted Jean, in her most profes- sional manner. "But I'll have to leave you to eat your . dinner alone while 1 go and see about getting a room ready for you." "Then it's a bargain that we go to Bowmere Ponds, all four of us, to - GREATEST VALUES 8. 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For the most part they were ad- dressed to various people who were staying in the house, but there were a couple for Mrs. Roberts, which Jean put on one side ready to give her on her return. Then she fell with joy upon the last letter of the heap, fm• it bore the German post nark, and she recognised her father's writing, looking distinctly less cramped and rheumatic than if. had done before he began his course of treatment. Sean held the letter with On hand while she hurriedly flicked a duster over the dining -room mantelpiece with the other, Mr. Travers wrote fn very good spirit;. Ile was making, he told her, much better progress than the doctor had at first anticipated. "I saw Dr. ;Schultz on Monday," he wrote. "He—you remember I told you in another letter—is the great medicine man of this part o1 Ger- many, a sort of little tin god to whom all other (Motors take o11 their hats, and he was most hope- ful. In fact, dear though don't get banking on it for fear you are disappointed -there is just a chancre that they May let me home at the end of .six months, instead of my having to stay the full year as Schultz predicted when he fret saw hue." It was in a mood of ahnest irre- sponsible gaiety that Jean set off for I Bowmere Ponds. Many things had gone together to contribute to her good spirits. In the first place there was the reaction after the anxiety about the twins the night before. Then, she was overjoyed by the good news from Germany, and perhaps the chief factor of all was the pleasure she took in David Edwards company. The day had dawned gloriously hot and bright, with just the neces- sary touch of breeze in the air to preseeve it from being sultry. The twins, too, were in excellent spirits over being at last able to put into practicetheir project of sailing the new boats on Bowmere Ponds, David took them rather a long way round to their destination, for he knew that Jean wogld enjoy the ride, and when they arrived at the Ponds they found the whole place deserted, "Good, we're going to have 1t all to ourselves!" commented David, as the dismounted from the car and lift- ed down the twins each in turn. "Don't for pity's sake fall in," Jean counselled them, remembering her fright the previous evening, "It wouldn't matter so much 1f they did to -day," replied David, because we shall be here to fish them out." "Don't tell them that" cried Jean. "Or they'll fall in for a certainty, just because they think they're ex• p60tell t0 do so," But the twins were not listening. Already they were kneeling side by side on the narrow strip .of land which separated the two great stretches of water, an,d were bliss fully happy sailing their boats on llhe upper pond. "They're all right," said David with a little laugh, 'they won't want us to help diem. I think there are few things more depressing for the poor kids the when a grown -tip will come and insist upon showing them how to play with their own toys•;" Jean laughed, • "1 smite agree with you," she said "1 know how 'I used to ]tate it when I was little. 'Grown-ups are alwaj"e. eo well meaning, but some of them don't seam to understand," "Let's go and sit down in the shade somewhere by ourselves," stilt: gested David, "Ais long as it's net nut of sight of the twins'," replied Jean• ""i don't Want to run the risk of any trap attics,` ' "How about that old oak tree?" nggelste( David, "We'll be able to n•ateli then from there," Jean agreed that the tree in question would do excellently and, crossing over to it, sat down with her back to the gnarled trunk, while Davit] threw ]himself on to the ground at her feet, There was a silence between them, a silence which held a faint and undefined hint of emberaas ment. At last David threw down a piece of grass which he had been chewing thoughtfully, and asked abruptly— "How long have we known one another?" "That requires some calculation," replied Jean. "I saw you the first time the day Dr. McNab toll us that Daddy must go and stay in Germany for the cure." At last David asked eagerly— "When can we get married, Jean;" Jean sheiolc her head and smiled a trifle wistfully. "Oh, not for a long time yet, David." she told him. "But, why not " protested David. "Of 000150 I can quite understand that you want to wait till yolr farther comes home, but, from what you've told me of his letter this 9 1 morning, I should think it won't be more than a few weeks before he's 1 back." I HE BRUSSELS POST that they can be bridesmaids, or pages, or w'llatover you call Mem " ,leap 5110011 her head, with a little 1 ugli. '"No," she replied firmly, "you e sot your mind quite at rest on tha Point. If it meant having the Saud nll!ldl'en there wouldn't be au bridesmaids of pages at 00 wedding, But, anyway, I hope the will have finished neving scar] l'e.vcr long before we oan ge married," 'Well, if it isn't you father, and 1 isn't the Sands children, for who] have we to wait?" demanded David. "What about Mrs. Roberts?" Jsa quarried. "Well, what about her?' asked David blankly. "I feel that I can't possibly leave her in the lurch now," said .lean, her voice troubled. "You can't give up your life 10 helping her," protested David. "You have proanised to marry me now, so you belong to me, and I shan't lot You waste yourself on the Roberts family very much longer," Jean shook her bead with a little resolute gesture. "I must stay for a time, David," she pointed out. "You see, if I were to leave now everything would be in as big a muddle again as ever within. a couple of months." "1'11 tell you what," said David 'why couldn't we have your father and Mrs. Roberts and the twins to ive with us after we're married?" Sean threw back her head and aughed aloud. "And anyone else in a small way " she wanted to.know. David looked slightly hurt. It's all very well for you to laugh he protested, "but I thought that I was being really helpful." antsy at the very fords—"cluttered up with Mrs, Roberts and the twins. Why, if the house was so full of people I shall never bu able au to get you to myself for a moment!" t "I know what It's going to be," s grumbled David good-naturedly, y we shall have to wait till the twins r coarse of age, and by that time Mrs. Y Roberts will be old and infirm and et you'll want to stay and push her t round in a bath chair," "Don't talk nonsense." laughed t Jean, "Mrs, Roberts is very little n older than I am myself, and I'm not proposing to wait till the twins n conic of age. I only want to wait a• little longer till things are more settled' for them" "Ola well," said David grudginglY, after he lead argued the point a little longer, "j suppose I shall have to give in and wait a bit. But I can tell you this much, Jean I don't intend to wait very long." Sean put up her hand and rubbed his cheek with it, in much the same consoling manner as though he had been one of the twins, • "Yon needn't think," she told him, "that I want to wait long either', I'll marry you the very first minute I fees it would be right to leave Mrs. Roberts." "Mind you do—" he began, but P he got no further, for at that moment there came an interruption from the twins "Re only said there was a pos. sibility of his coming home at the end of six months," Jean pointed out, "You must remember he se'l I was not to bank on it," "Well, even if we have to wait ail he's been away the fun year," said David grudgingly, "I suppose I can put up with it, though 1 shall simply hate waiting for you, Sean.? "I'm afraid," said Jean slowly, "that it isn't only daddy for whom we've got to Wait." David looked alarmed. "Don't tell me that you've got to wait till all the Sands family have finished having scarlet fever, so '•ter ,— .�.....0 'MMy dear"—Jean leaned forward, and putting up her face to his kiss• ed hire impulsively on the mouth— "it's perfectly sweet of you to sug- gest such a thing, but I simply couldn't hear of it. To have clarity to live with us would be one thing — r think we shall have to do that because I can't bear to think of him all alone— but I won't have our home"—and she squeezed his hand which she stili held In hers exult - There are war weapons in your household waste. Save them. Give them. Canada a can use them hi war production material. Every scrap counts. Help win this war at your own back door! ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL .WAR,SERY.ICES GET INTO THE SCRAP WITH SCRAP r Wedues••lay, December 18t11, 1812 "Prey arrived under the shade of the oak tree hand In hand, as usual, "Inoase," they announced, speak ing both at once, which was also a habit of theirs, 'we've splashed ourselves and we've got rather wet" "'Ratlher wet" was, a very mild way of expressing their condition, 10 Mani fact they were soaked to the skin, and there Was nothing for It but to take then] back to Upton House at once. With a resigned siglh David wrap ped them up in his raincoat, which, fotrunateiy happened to be in the back of the car, and having installed Jean in the front seat, "reluctantly prepared to drive then all home again When they reached the house' Jean bundled the twins up to their room at once to change their soaked - clothes for something dry, and when she came downstairs again she found David wiating In the hall' for her, his small suitcase ready packed in, his hand, "Are you going?" she asked, in startled tones. He nodded, "Afraid I've got to. Strictly speak- ing I ought to have started long before this, but the temptation to - take you. and the' twins to Bowmere Ponds was too much for me," TO BE CONTINU'E'D. :~:N4N4~+1..1.4 i♦•04**4••:.1 ....4:-..k):044.4.4.... II _8'U$lfle .1. Allan A. 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