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Meryl and
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By Susan Redgrave
"You want nothing more than to
please me?" lie asked,
"Coo snow I could want nothing
more than that," she vowed, the
veiling lashes floating upwards,
"Then run off with ate, let's elope
and let the world go hang," he rug•
gestect more than half in earnest for
the moment.
Meryl caught her breath.
"You know I'd do that it yon
meant it.," she ,said. "But you
don't.
"You're right. I don't mean it.
We'll have the orthodox wedding—
bridesmaids, white satin and veil
and orange blossom, and a bishop to
{ help tie the knot if we can get hold
of one,"
',Ohl" gasped Meryl, her pansy -
blue eyes wide. 'A real wedding. I'd
love it, but. I thought men hated
that sort of wedding."
"But then, you don't know very
much about men yet, my sweet," he
mocked her lightly.
Suddenly his arms went round
her and his lips sought and found
hers.
1
"You're the sweetest thing in the
world to kiss," he muttered huskily.
"I've never held anything half so
sweet in my arms."
To his astonishment Meryl drew
bads her head and withdrew asfar
as possible f1'0111 iris eaubraco.
"Don't," she cried passionately,
"don't. I can't bear it," and tears
stusg• her eyelids.
"Cant bear what?" he queried ua-
steadily.
'Don't remind me that you've
held other girls like this, kissed
them, loved thein as you DJOW love
me," she cried, and the depths of
feeling in eyes and voice startled
him.
"You quaint little kid," burst in-
voluntarily from his lips, and his
arms tightened around her.
"I'm not baby enough to think
you've never been in love before,"
went on Meryl stormily. "You have
—but don't remind me of it. I want
to trick myself into belieing there's
never been anyone else"—and she
buried her face against his should-
er.
Giles sat very still for seconds,
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then bent his head to hers',
"Listen, Meryl," ht. said in quite
ey
another tone. "I'm going to 1lto
you for compliment of talking to
you as if you were shall I say?^
grown -um, '1'm not going to ask you
to believe that a man of my age has
knocked about the world without
losing .his head, if not his heart, 11 ow'
and again. But this is dead sure
truth—I've never in my life felt
about any girl es I feel about you,"
Meryl raised a very April face.
"And if that isn't 111e truth, then
I've never before spoken it," was
Giles Reydons inward thought, bort
whether he most loved or hated the
girl in his arms, he could not have
said.
"I'11 be content with that," sighed
Meryl. "I won't let myself remem-
ber them."
Giles let in the clutch and the car
ploughed its way back .along the
sandy lane.
"How old are you ' he asked
abruptly before they reached The
Glebe,
I was eighteen last mouth," she
told him.
'Then,' he said, his face again.
setting in those ugly, hard lines,
"we'll have to get •your guardian's
—your mother, I suppose it will be
—conseut to our marirage. Where
! shall I find .her?"
Meryl flushed darkly.
"I don't quite 'know, she said
unhappily. "But Nannie will tell
you.'
Nannie, strangely confused, told
him what she knew of Mrs. Val-
liant's whereabouts, A letter sent
to the lady care of her banker would
reach her.
Giles Reydon smiled cynically
he received a formal written con-
sent to his marriage with MerYl
Jean Valliant, aged eighteen. Mrs.
Valliant had complete faith in Mrs.
Johnstones judgment, and feared
she herself would be unable to at-
tend the ceremony, which she re-
quested might be as quiet as pos-
sible.
All necessary information was
enclosed, and Mrs. Johnstone had a
free hand as to all wedding and
trousseau. expenses,
Again, a cynical grin twisted Giles
Reydon's handsome mouth.
He was in the dark as to why the
good lady couldn't turn up for the
wedding, but was obviously jumping
at the chance of marrying off her
notorious daughter to some fairly
responsible and respectable man.
Well, if they' chose to perjure
themselves over the girls age, and
probably other particulars; it didn't
concern him.
%P N 1:
OH RTER IV.
' Deserted!
After all Meryl Valliant's wedding
was not so very spectacular. No
bishop officiated, at a small seaside
church, and no bridesmaids followed
the exquisite bride up the aisle
to where her bridegroom awaited
her. But the gown of soft ivory
satin, the veil and orange blossom,
they were all there.
Giles suddenly dropped, his idea of
having all possible publicity centred
Oh this marriage, wily, he could
scarcely have told, himself, Plenty
of publicity there• should be, but
later.
Old General ,Curtis, a +frequent
guest at The Glebe, led the radiant
bride in her misty draperies to the
man shewas marrying.
Giles called upon no friend to act
as best man, but pressed a casual
hotel acquaintance into the service.
"Gosh," breathed that individual
when the bride moved slowly up the
church and lifted starry oyes to her
0100111.
IIe wondered where he had seen
this face bfor, surrounded by all this
mist of filmy tulle, or whateber the
stuff was called.
In most of her pictures Jean
Webhertlen appeared as a bride,
bridal dress and veil starry eyes
and all , but the sliightly dazed best
Man did: not connect the two,
"Darling," breathed Giles in, the
ear of that snowy vision, and at the
dear word, and Yet mere at the.
throbbing note in his deep voles
Meryl was so unbearably hairp:
that it was as if her heart hurt her.
As a matter of Sant, in all his
twenty-eight adventurous years• or
existence, Giles Reydon had never
been so de,ply stirred, Almost he
could have forgotten Billy Ssynaage
—almost --not Shite.
He seemed 10 waken, to reality os
signed and he a11d Meryl,
111e service was ended, 111e register
husband
and wile, walked .together clown ilia
aisle of the tiny church, smell
ed of Pitcllipine and newness,
lferyts veil was, thrown back on
Lor face, which had been wbdte as'
,1111.• 1111011 silo moved up the ohurgr
h
to her place. at Giles's side, was
tinged a glint and very lovely rose.
They tools their seats in the ca
and the chauffeur hired for the
occasion drove off.
The sun shone, the breeze was
frehh, the tiny 'LOW -13 VMS gay in the
ia•terests•d people in the
etre. 1, 030111(. sympathetically upon
the bridal pair, and a than playing a
piano -accordion broke into the
Wedding March as they dashed bY.
Meryl looked up at Giles, joyous
and a little excited,
"Thrilling-' she whispered delight,•
ally.
Gileis's hand closed on hers as it
lay in her .1.:,P•
"The Most thrilling thing in the
world,' he muttered unsteadily,
It was a revelotion to him, fln.ding
slow unutterably "thrilling" being
being married to Meryl was.
Again he made up his mind to put
all dark thoughts behind him for
the moment, to forget Billy Swan-
age, to rem niter only that he and
this girl whose charm flew to his
head like a magic spell, were bus•
band and wife.
There was a whlr1w'311cl luncheon
at The Glebe, to whtcu every visitor
staying there was invited, and came.
At last Mfrs. Johnstone carried off
her nursling to change into the trim
suit and small hat in. which she was
to travel.
"And here's the lovely fur coat
your mother sent you, my lamb,
"
fussed Mrh• Johnstone. "Pt's chin.
chilla, and might have been made
specially for you."
It had not been for Meryl, and
for a moment Mrs. Johnstone's
comely face darkened,
"Pl1 have it put in the back of
the ear," she went on, "It'll be cold
enough before you get -to Your
journey's end, and you'll be glad of
The ha11 was, crowded with visi-
torsi and stag when, the bride came
down the Stairs, slim, radiantly
happy in the sober little suit. She
saw none of these outsiders, but
',vent straight es an arrow to where
her husband, stood smoking a cigar-
eitte, a tall figure in his tweeds.
"Ready?" he asked, throwing
away, his cigarette, smiling down
into :the sparkling little face. "Good.
Your only ' nine minutes. late,
What's this?"
He looked distastefully at the
great armful of blue -grey fur Mrs.
Johnstone was carrying out to the
car.
A weave of heavy perfume floated
from the chinchilla coat, and for
moment the man's head reeled. He
heated the nastily coat, he loathed the
heavy perfume; and for an Instant
he was half -minded to carry out
his original plan of deserting his
bride 111vmediately after their wed-
ding.
Sons• Valliant sent the coat for
Miss Meryl, for Mrs,. Reydon, 1
should say," explained Mrs, John.atone. ,"It may turn chilly as the
eveaang do'a,w in• Tceh coat's not
quite a few, sir, but its none the
worse for that."
"Quite," said Giles, nis face like
Stone.
"Nannie darling, you're the grit
to call me Mrs. Reydon!" cried
Mes-yI, pink lips curbing to a smile.
"4'11 never forget that "
The air was thick with good-bYes
and: confetti of rose -pink Petals
"Good-bye, Nannie darling -_good,
bye, everybody; And thank
etc' so much for m Yoll all
ding " cried y wavin weer
Mer
hand; and yl, tvavtug her
nobody noticed that the
bridegroom at the wheel was Star-
ing straight ahead, with no word of
thanks or farewell for anyone.
He'd certainly choke, Giles
thought, as he dlr:ove off, if he had
to spend the neat few hours with
the :sdench—that was, how he ce-
sm ihed, to himself the marvellous
sseent compounded 5Peclally for Miss
Jean W'0111011153( by a famous per.
fulmar—of ,the stuff tlliat the coat
was drenched in, In his taa.
Ile knew emouglu of fursnostrtlunder•
slant that this chinchilla coat niu.at
'have cost a small fortune, .and
wondered 14 it bads been ;pails for
with
mnethe young • ggiddigger
hadaextracted from. 13111y,
"741as stopped the car,
"Musk you have this fur with
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you?" he asked curtly.
"Wily, no, not if you'd rather 1
didn't." said Bb:ry,'1 Sweetly. "Don't
you like it? It's lovely. But I can't
say I care for the scent of it my-
self."
"You won't mind if I send the
coat back to The Glebe?" he asked.
"Not in the least," she assured
him happily,
He swung out of the car, hauled
the chinchilla coat out of the back
and called to a passing youth.
''You knew The Glebe?" he asked.
"Take 'this to Mrs. Johnstone and
say Mrs. Reydon doesn't need it"—
and he pressed a coin into the
young fellow's hand and rid himself
of the. fur.
"We'll have all the window ORO
until we're rid of :the stink," he
said. and they started off once
more with a miniature blizard blow-
ing about their ears.
"Please,'' begged Meryl at last,
her eyed laughter -,filled, "I'll be
blown out of the ear."
Giles, smiled down a trifle grimly,
but he stopped the car and did as
she asked,
"Sorry, darling," he oppologlee
taking his seat once more. "Let
put this rug around you. I simpl
couldn't stand that stuff."
"I'nt rather glad to be rid of
myself," she smiled.
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