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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-5-15, Page 8THE BRUSSELS POST W10DN;10S'DAY, MAY Loth, 1940 L NT IT t F1) Meryl and Retribution By Susan Redgrave Giles stiffened, Billy's, fate meant so, little to her that the sight of an aeroplane said nothing to the cal- lous little detvil, "1 SU j 1 $'e Yon ilY'T" she added, Bringing her eyes down to him. I'an not a relying man, but rve been up many times with my friend , Billy $Snranage," he said curtly, wary eyes on her face. "I$ Billy Savanna your friend?" exciehned'- Meryl, "How thrilling, I3e's wonderful, isn't he." "A first rate airman," said Giles, his face drawn with pain, "Did you - know him "—ana the girl failed to notice that he spoke of Billy in. the past tense. "I don't know anybody," she de- clared. "I've been kept at the dullest school in the world, and we've had no sett1ed11ome for ages, while mother went about with with people," she ended lamely. "For sheer cold-blooded lying commend me to this baby -faced siren," thought Giles savagely: "She turned not one hair at Billy's name, too," and he shifted his elbow nearer her. Aloud be said:— 'How do you make them shay on?' "Make' what stay on?" she asked, flushing adorably" at finding his dark face so mueb closer. "These." He raised himself on. his elbow and with the other hand gave Mery1,s e etrevantly - long lashes a gentle tug, ,'They're fixed," he ex- claimed, disconcerted, "Of course they're fixed, Did you think they were sewn on?" she laughed confusedly. It was wonderful, thrilling, gorg- eous—all the adjectives she was s0 fond of using—haying Mr, Iteydon so near, his hand lightly touching her face, and she hoped lie would not guces how her silly heart Was thumadng in her side. 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Every fleck of colour ebbed from her fact and lips and the dusting of dim gold freckles to break the smooth pallor, "Well, what' about - it?" asked Giles, all the more roughly because be was so deeply, and unexpectedly. stirred, "Don't look as If I've ordered your execution." "To merry you—to be your wife?" she whispered, her lips scarcely moving. "To marry me, that's what I said;" he answered, the rough vote again in his voice. "Well, what d'you say?" "Why. of course—I say—' Yes,'" Meryl blurted out, "Wouldn't any girl? But—' and she broke off. "But What?" asked Giles, his eyes still holding hers that had not wav- ered from this. face, "But why? I'm nothing—nobody— not clever, not beautiful, not any- thing in particular—why should you want to marry me?" The words came with a soft rush, "Why do you ask me?" ''Wiry does a man ask any girl to marry him?" countered Giles. "You loco me? You're In love with me?" breathed Meryl, her sort voice touched with awe, 'It's won- derful, I can't believe it." No marvel, thought Giles, as he had thought before, that this girl had made film history as an en Benue, Never could the role have been more perfectly played. A rush of colour tinged the sweet whiteness of Meryl's cheeks, and down went her face into her bandy. "You're n•ot crying, Meryl?" ask- ed Giles after a few moments' con- templation of what he took to be the high spot of the performance. "I believe I am," came a muffled little sound, half -laugh, half- sob, from the buried. face. Very gently—no wonder Meryl believed he loved her—Giles Rey - don pulled away those two beauti- fu11y-sltaped hands and raised her fate by a hand set to ber pretty chin. Tears sparkled, on the in- credibly long lashes, but Meryl smiled at ,him, "I don't 11iow why I'm being so silly," she confessed. "Perhaps it's because. I've been so lonely. And now you really and truly want to Marry me—and I can't think why oat of all the world you should want uta for your wife—that is what you really mean,?"—and there was a catch in her breath, "I most certainly intend to marry You," he said; and she missed the grimness. Mryl's' small face reminded him ata deav-nvaslled; pink rosebud, and there was• an. Uflwelcoan,e tightening at Giles's heart. Confound the little devil for playing her wiles on him so successfully. No wonder -simple, strafghljforward Billy hadn't a chance against her. The charm of her fairly lured a men's heart out of his breast. "You're going to. say 'Yes' to me?" he asked. "Yon truly 'Want me to?" enquired again, unable she her good fortune, to believe in "I Intend you shall, angel -face,' assured her, and again, the grim note passed ber by. The small round, chin still cupped in tris palm, Giles brought his lean dark fate nearer anti very deliber- ately laid, his lips to heirs•. The touch was light, enough at first, but Giles Reydon had; 'not bargained for the wave of wild madness that surged through him at the touch of those soft lips on his. His, aroma, went round( her, and the Succeeding kisses, upon, .her soft nponth were hard and cruel. This girl was no inezperienceid child; there was no :heed to tree.t ,her with, the delicate restraint 11e Might have exercised had she in reality been, what she seemed; and Giles only ceaead. diose Bering kis* es on the soft pink lips when he realised that Meryl wes utterly ilia passive in his arms, rio Her face, pale now as any Pearl, lay against his shoulder, her eyes were closed and for an instant he feared; she had fainted. ,In• his, alarm h forgot all he• had against hes, , "Meryl darling," he jerked out. "What's the matter?" "Only I'm so terribly happy," she murmured, opening 'her eyes- and smiling faintly into iris Perturbed face. "I felt I'd die,' "My darling," he muttered, re- morsefully. "I must remember that you're little more than a school -gin and only—nineteen, is it?" ri Eng! "Eighteen," she murmured hack, and at what Giles took to be a specially bare faced lie he was himself again. For the remainder of the hour they spent on the beach he- com- pelled himself to tenderness and gentleness, though more than once his mouth took on a sardonic twist. What perturbed him more than anything was the truth that he actually wanted to be tender and gentle with :this, girl, and for her sake to keen an iron hand on the reins of his, passion, Only once, when they, rose to go, did he to some extent lose his self- control, He reminded himself that this innocent childlikeesa ,was all humbug, that there was no need to consider her youth and inexperience and for the second time he swept her into his arms. He crushed his lips violently to her closed eyes, to the soft creamy throat where n pulse beat madden- ingly, to the dim drift of tiny gold freckles., to her quivering lips, "Scared stiff?" be asked ironical- ly, when at last he put her fion, hint and gazed down into her sanail face, all broken with emotion, "X -no, not .scared." ah puarvied disjoiuledly. "But a tiny bit --sort of quivery. Giles, I'll try so hard to be all you want me to be." Giles gave a , short laugh and shrugged his shoulders. ,'No need to try so very hard, I hope, sly dear, Vault soon get used to it," he assured her brusquely, Haw, he was to ask 'himself in the bleal2 days to come, could he have been so blind: a fool? How could any man have mistaken the sweet innocence of this dear child for a mask, concealing the brazen callousness and greed of ;the girl who had 'lade young BItiy Swan - age's splendid life not worth the living? Why, even the very pre- cautions -Aleryl'vs stepmother took to prevent the ,tragic scandal front overshadowing the' giros life all told against her. Afterwards he remembered a thousand things that might well have told him the truth, that this girl was like countless others who had led the some sheltered lif; sac that in this instance she had a mag- netic charm that might, as she grew older, have a clarion call to men. This, however, was all in the future. They collected baskets, rug and cushions and went back to the car. Before starting Giles looked into the softly tinted little face at his shoulder, "Happy?" be asked: briefly, "I know now that I have never been happy before,"'she said below her breath, adoring eyes upraised to his, concealing noticing of the love of her passionate young heart from elm: AFoin Giles felt that powerful and Unwelcome stirring in the regions' of his own heart, that same troubling of the. blood. 'Po shill it, he told himself what a good performance the girl was put- ting up; but still, he had to give her orcin for being genuinely in love with hint. That was all to the good and 00001'41105 to pian, 2311 first plan ,had- been to marry this girl who, was so largely in the Public eye, and then, the ceremony once penfonm,ed, to desert her at the church door, ,pat her to public hum. illation, ",Only in their vanity and their purse can such worsen be hurt," oitl Mrs. Swanage had said, if he could not hunt her flnanciolly, could deal hes' vanity a deadly blow, - Suddenly 111 t plan was changed. Ric nee, 'would tarn actor, .tool this. Mite -hearted little schemer to the top of her bent, marry her, and not leave, her at .the Oharch door hum. to ber until humiliation could, go farther, 'then leave her to the de - Are You Still Pioneering? IIiE log houses, iron pumps and outside sanitary accommodation are relics of pioneering days. 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