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Massing The Mark
W JDNIESHA X, sun,. h7tb, 1939
BY LILIAN IVERSON
Bridget warmed under the Ines -
Moe e od Anne's f,iiendly grip. It
was" lovely tq have Anne simile upon !
her again and to realise they were
Sisters and comrades and had once l
been playunates,
"Why are you so jolly to -clay?" 1
Anne asked, as they left the Peadle
woods 'bebl!nd and scaled the large
broad strip or upland ^where the
golden prickly gorse spread in
NbnndaInee, and berries of all den.
cri/•t,ous flamed on the bushes and
straggling hedges close by.
*Ana I jolly?' gurgled Bridget,
'Who was finding this game of pre-
tence a period of intense relief
and immense satis action. "Why
shouldn't I be? The day Is fine
and we don't bays to stave.''
"Don't count your mercies, but
get to ,the point," urged tier contr.
panion,
"I am having o day off Pm forget-
ting I'mengaged! It's a sort of
trial trap, and so you mustn't
breathe Adrian Falkland's name to
me, or you'll spoil the whole busi-
ness."(
Then because Anne was her old
self and her best self, .transparent
Biddy gave a quick account of all
that had hoppened that morning at
Harti!wdcke, and why the had gone
there, and all about the torn shirt
and her helper and adviser.
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Anne screwed up her noes,
wrinkled, her fork ®ads and perform-
ed a host other, contortions to
enable her to express her views on
the subject.
"My dear girl," she cried "deal
you know; that Miss ISeadon was
supipoaed to be almost engaged! to
Adrian before he came over to you?
It was the talk of the town that
those two would marry 00 you saaw
her and told her all your heart's
secrets. Wes it safe? Was it
wise? Time will prove. My word!
Biddy, you are so totally unlike
other girls in every conceivable
waY•"
"She is: a priceless darling,"
stated Bridget, loyally, "and if
Adrian Falkland wants, to marry her
let him. She would be of far great-
er use in his life than I should,
Its as clear ae clear that I must get
out of my engagement, Anne. No
1 matter what the grandparents may
have to say about it."
.Anne nodded. "I've recognised it
all along, that's why I've been so
cross with sou. It was idiotic
eevr to get engaged,. You are not
happy, neither is he. Of course
it le a good match for you, and
heaps better than anyone would
ewer have dreamed' would come to
you. Marvellous in a !way, But
after all is said and done, what is
the use of marrying well, brilliant-
ly shalt I term, it, and then be
wretched Break it ,off, Biddy, and
fe content to wait till the right man
asks you. i reckon you won't
have to exercise much patience,
he'll soon come along, mark any
words."
Biddy shook her head, and a sad-
ness crept to her eyes and stayed
there for iseveral mdnultes. Then
she pointed to the fading snnsirine
and offered to race Anne down to
the bottom, and the Sisters, took to
their heels and flew, scattering the
rabbits, and partridges! they met en
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routes to left and right of theal.
"It will be dusk before we get
home," predicted Anne, "We Were
too long on your mountain!, I 'hope
tea will be late and that there'll be
Y30 b'otherinig fuse about keeping it
for us. Grandma has had a heavy
day with one thing and another and
she's'( cross, I wish she were lens
exaotin gand not so afraid of trust-
ing me with her belongings , She
treated: me as If I were a kid this
morning, It's qo galling, But let's
hurry! I don't covet black looks
and cold tea and a paucity of tea
cake."
Tha.daylight lessened and the air
grew colder and, the girls put on
speed andas they flung off their
hats and coats and smoothed their
hair, the bell shrilled through the
house announcing tea,
Their grandmother volunteered
that no visitors of any sort had
been that afternoon, but Bridget
scarcely heard her, all her mind
was riveted on the fact that as they
had hurried through the farmyard
premises her grandfather hadbeen
deep In conversation with Robin
Cardrely,
Wham on earth had they to say to
each •other of such pregnant im-
portance, Her grandfather had
been laying down the .law in his
brusque fashion, and Robin had
,given short answers which sounded
first like assent, and atter a bit
decided dissent.
She put the question to Anne
when they were alone, but the elder
girl had no more idea than she had
why this interview had taken place,
and so the subject Twee dropped
until the next morning early, when
it was suddenly and not unnaturally
raised: again.
For Bridget, leaning out of the
bedroom window to drink in the
cold crisp air, gave a sharp ex-
clamation of astonishfent.
"Anne," she whisvered, excited-
ly, "what is it all about? Robin is
talking again to grandfather, It
almost looks as if he were medal
orders, he is so business -like, go
gnandjiather."
.Anne rubbed her eyes, sleep
and thumped her pillow. "Is,
worth waking up for good at th
time? Do be quiet, Biddy, you a
making a lot out of nothing! W
shouldn't Robin have a busines
wrangle, like the rest of the farm
ens do I daresay his employ
old Burleigh, wants something fos
nothing, and • has, sent Rabin ove
needs another cow or something 0
that sort. There now, It's anly al
o'clock and I could have had a
other half hour's. nap If you'd b
sane and sensible,"
However, Bridget could not for
get the episode as easily as h
sister, and a little later on, when
she went dldwvrstaire to help Lydia
get the breakfast, she mentioned
what she had seen, knowing that
she might Morn some at least, of
what bad been going on from this
quarter.
•Lpola stopped in the midst of fry-
ing eggs and bacon and grinned.
"Why you are behind the times,"
she scoffed, 'didn't you read be-
tween the lines and put two and two
together? That, with overhearing
a bit, nettles, .many a problem forme, Mr, Cardrew has some here
to work for your grandfather. It's
all signed and settled. He has al-
ready started, this .very morning .
It seemsth
, at Burleigh don't want
him after all, and Mr, Gray has
offered him a job at Hopcolt--your
grandpaernta' bare been talking it
over on the quiet for the last few"
days.
Drawing a deep 'breath, Lydia
continued, "Now don't you go and
let on and spread, who gave you the
tap, I won't have Mrs. Gray call
me a busybody. I'm no more that
than many another! All I'm out for
is to show the world I'm not balmy.
I've ears and eyes like my betters
have, and I use 'em Lor' Miss
lin•idget, you are so slow in tihe. up-
take sometimes, and so ie Miss
Anne, You're ae blind as bate more
than half of the day,"
,Bridget made no response to this
plain speaking indeed, it is doubt -
full it she heard a single word of it.
All .that she had grasped, and which
was quite sufficient s that Robin,
had come to Hopco.t wa110 help them
inatoad' of air, Burleigh. Very
strange It seemed when mer grand.
father had never coveted a pupil be -
foie. It wee moat curious too, that
Mr. Bunleigh should be willing to
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give him up when Robin hal come
for a couple of years to get a prac-
ticeI inslghm into farming, and an
ea�tert knowledge 0f it,
The queerest part of it, too, was
that Mr. Burledgh's farm lent itself
M tailing in pupils, He catered for
Vhenr, whereas her grandfather had
no patience with that kind of thing.
His was farming, he bad often
sneered•, not schooling,
Atter breakfast Bridget passed on
to Anne wlhat had !been told hen,
and Anne discounted it at once,
"One of Lydia's tall Stories,"
she said lidtily, "I never gossip
with her. She's iso unsafe, and
grandmother loathes tittle-tattle.
There's not a grit of truth in all
this, so don"t spare it another
thought."
Rt was not a question of sparing
it was more the difficulty of crowd-
ing out these, floods' and floods of
surmises and conjectures that both-
er the brain unless one is certain
one is on right lines.
B.ridg.ett longed to be frank with
her grandmother, but it is not a
simple matter to start afresh and
demand an explanation of anything.
when confidences have never been
the order ,0f the day with the per-
son in quelition, so 'Biddy decided
to wait. ;i SRI
Of coarse there were plenty of
ways and means of finding out just
what it all meant, the other helpers
on the farm would know naturally
before the day was out, if not be-
fore, But Biddy's tongue was tied
on this 'topic, especially as she met
Robin constantly and, except for a
grave nod, he took no further notice
of her.
"Robin is 'working for grand-
father," Anne •informed her in the
afternoon. "Grandma told me. She
dist say why. I dared to aak her
i1 he had, come as a pupil, thinking
grandfather was hoping to make I
some money that way, She was
really cross and declared he did
not 501 !n for that rubbish, Robin
Cardrew was a solid and good
'worker and would pick up as he
went along.. He was to be palid
an honest wage, like 'the rest of
men, and would board with them
He was moving in that evening."
Bridget breathed hard,
"He is going to live there with
,us, at Hop:+O.Lt," she repeated
atu'prdly, "•Ob, Anne, is that girl
going to make it up with Trim "
"id there a girl?" doubted Anne,
unexpeeltedly"I've never heard ,0f
one. Wouln't Robin have told us,
He was very jolly when he first
came to Pendle, quite a sport. You ,
thought he was going to fall in love
With me, goose that you are, and I
let you do so, because well, T was
not feeling at all civil and life was
horribly gloomy, and I hadn't any
faith or belief,"
goic"loDoly, go on," vleaed Bridget,
"Oh, The world looks a 'bit
brig2hter now, •since I had a post-
card, It dint say much, but it
code, and that's a good, deal,
CIIAPTIDR VIII,
Indecision.
"Do tell me more," urged Bridget
Annie smiled,
"Not yet, there. isn't enough to
say, Perhaps in a few day,, I may
give, you the whole - I have been
rather a beast lately, I omit, Bid,
but I've gone through— well, there
is no occasion to frame the word. I
am terribly proud, and this hurt me
as a gobetm"een, It may be he
terrifflcally, 31 made one lose
trust In just everybody, Silly, but
that was so, you see, he had prom-
ised so faithfully to write, or come
goon again that I just didn't know
what to think"
"Da hell me all," !besought
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Bridget awreith,
01 cannot yet," maintained Anne,
firmly;, "because even new it array
pot mean an immediate engage*
Meat In a way or you may bo sure I
should not have faced the acair go
eerlouially. Now we'll lease the
subject and turn again to Robin
Cardlow. What makes you harp
on that string? About the girl
away R mean? Hes he definitely
said that there is one?"
"Yesti" B•rlidgett answered quietly,
"and She has lest him down, That Is
why he Is so altered, and I believe
they quarelled or she pretends that
she has ceased to love itlf. He
Mid' me dint march. He evidently
had not the faintest idet that all
this Ivitould happen. It's slate he
Went to Glaagoy, I sumipoae they
caane to loggerheads :there Any-
way, it has made him a changed
man. And he's a man nod with a
vengeonce, all his; boyishness has
gone."
Anne regardedher wIth impatient
wonder,
"You are so dense, Bid! This
phantom girl you mention may have
Wrought havl0,c in his life, but I
doubt if she is to blame as much as
you, yourself."
Bridget gasped.
"Anne, do talk sense, It's -it's so
.wickedly cruel to be teased like
this," and' elm almost ,gave a sob.
"Would I hurt Robin? 'Would I add
any more wretchedness to his life?
you Icnrbw I couldn't."
Her voice trailed off into silence,
and it was quite .a few minutes
before site demanded—
"Oh, what do you mean?'"
"It's your engagement that up-
sets Robin." Anne's placidity
reefed an added insult. "1 read
It at the very first, even before
Adrian proposed to you, Robin was
jealous. He didn't like his coming
here and 'taking you for walks. All
along, Robin has enjoyed yuor
s0oieiy, - He has sought you out,
you've been so diull, too humble.
It amazed me that you should im-
agine he cared for me. Never once
have yon accepted all that you
spelt for him:"
Anne cleared her throat,
"And you repaid him by going
'Ord' getting engaged at a most
tearing rate to Adn'ian Falkland.. Of
course it upset Robin. If he told
you there µns a girl away he cared
for, I suppose it must be true. It's
strange, for he's no flirt, no, by no
means the type of character to•
tan 'tate lows Rt one 'time, fit.
Wales me, Ask bit ag'alti !Shout
this woman (SWAY, 1 believe you'll
finis that !hoer is seine mlatake,
Ask him'today, Dldkly, !before Ad
Irian turns up Don't pat It off."
"/ can't," declared Bitldlget, t'1
ahouldu'h ;know how to begin, Robin.
1sl eq different nowadaYfa W1>,Y He
searoe'l' speaks to Me at all. • He
1s Quito pude, 1n fact quite unity,"
Bridget blinked her eyes.
»O'h, no I meat leave it. Come to
think of it, he never dis0ussed his,
past and home life fully with us.
He awpided it 011 he couid, he is,
int many ways very reserved."
"Because .of hip father," Inter:-
posed
nterpored Anne. "(He Is a spendthrift.
and Robin is ashamed of it Prob-
ably the old man is most appealing,
but there it Is, 'HH'bin would hate
debt and Living from hand to mouth.,
He is iso temperafentally the op-
posite, that his father must be a -
blot on his universe and yet de
can't very well judge him ,too harsh-
ly to others."
TO 1313 CONTINUlau.
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