The Brussels Post, 1940-6-19, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST
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Meryl and Reribution
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"Perhaps you don't know me very
well," said Giles With an even more
deadly quiet than before, "Scenes
have no terrors for me,"
(Somehow the table and Conrad'
were swept out of his way like
Straws, and' Ire seating the unprepar-
ed Meryl up in his aims, striding
out of the roam with her. It was all
done so quickly that the episode
received surprisingly little attention
from the dancers or from these
seated at the tables,
"Do Scream if you feel like it,"
.murmured Giles coolly, "I've no
objection,"
But Meryl did not scream. She
was so completely taken by surprise
that she had no breath for scream-
ing. Her bag, one glove and her
cloak were all left behind, but she
did not even remember them.
The two men. with Giles had left
the club before them, and even as
Giles set her feet to the pavement
they brought his car up to the kerb,
got out, and with a brief good night
went off.
Susan Redgrav e
Meryl d'id not intend getting into
that ear, but she appeared to have
no choice, for Giles'e arm around
her was, a band of iron, and she
found herself beside him, being
driven through the practically de-
sente'd streets,
The deadly ,silence of Giles as he
drove staring straight ahead, began
to rasp Meryl's nerves, but she
determined she would not be the
one to break it. It 'seemed no use
making determinations, for her lips
appeared to open of their own
accord.
"Nobody saw what you did to me
that morning," she burst out, "But
I had the satisfaction of returning
ylour blow in public."
"You don't imagine I mind any-
thing those pitiful fools saw or
heard?" he said scathingly,
"Perhaps not. But you can't
have enjoyed having your own two
friends there to see." she ,mocked
"I did not," said Giles Icily
through 'clenched teeth. "If it's
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any satisfaction to you to knee—It,
I hated it like the devil. I could have
wrung your neck with pleae'ui•e, but
I expectedthat blow. It was coming
to m, and I took It, Now we're
quits,"e
"No," said Meryl in a hard little
voice, "We can never be quits!"
The car turned into aa unfamiliar
street,
"'This isn't my way torus!" she
cried. "I share a 'fiat with another
girl!"
"The engaging, object at your
table?" enquired Giles.
"Elsa? No." She shuddered ir-
rep •essibly. "But J]Isa's not a1 -
ways like this, 'She's quite nice
generally; but to -night she was
tired, and when she'e tired she gets
exd,"
"citeShe wase plain
tipsy, and so were
the three young decedents with
you," said Giles. ".Couldn't you
have found more reputable compan-
ions If you must go to a place like
that?"
"Everybody goes to night clubs"
she defended herself.
"Every night club isn't like that
one„" he countered quickly.
"You were there yourself," she
pointed out.
"What has that 'to do with it "
he demanded, "And as it happens I
saw you go in, so I came to get you.'
"You—you—oh!"—and Meryl halt
choked with rage. ''Having treated
me as I imagine no decent man in.
all the world ever treated the girl
he married, you now dare to ,talk as
if 1 am some degraded being. How
dare you."
"It's because I will not stand by
and see, you degenerate into some-
thing like that unspeakable girl that
I carried you out of the club to-
night," said Giles, clutching hands
whitened at the knuckles.
It smote hint like yet another
blow to recollect how like a fair
little daisy, against the. dubious
background from which he had re-
moved her, had Meryl looked, n in
spite of her daring dress.
"Take Mme house this moment!"
Meryl cried imperiously,
"Your home is with me," said
Giles quietly.
I'lor a moment she felt stunned.
"I will not come!" she jerked out
at last. 1
She lovas quick, but Giles was
quicker, and before she could spring
out of the door she had so sswiftlY
opened he had his arm about her,
bolding her clamped to his side so
that she was powerless to move.
At almost the same intsant the
stopped before 'the entrance to a
cit of service fiats.
lie looked down into the Pale,
tinous face, so young and fair
sttfil, thank God; so Innocent,
lnnocerit she was, the could
e his life on that.
Look here, Meryl," he said, still
ing her last. 'Protedt if you like,
g'gle, scream, 12 you, must, It
make no Utterance. You're my
e, and you're coming ,home, with
remit you rem4nibering about
being your wife rather late in
day?" she taunted him,
did you a great 'wrong, and it's
me to see that through my
you don't make a terrible hash
ur life before you're old enough
ow better.n'
you propose to train me up in
ay I should go?" she scoffed
wouldn't put It like that myself,
Yes something like It. At all
, whether you like it or not
going to have your husband's
g until People have rorgotten
astray meas I've let you in for,
are you coming quietly."
yes; constable, I'll come
she jeered, '",lust bo tell
t I think of you, Then I'll
e,"
did not dispute this. They
up in the lift to tube fourth
nd Giles held on to her elbpw
ey were inside the flat,
es, this is Mrs, Reydon," he
rubicund little ntanaem,-
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b refer Meryl Fitt mono her link HOW dare
so casually^ to than tragedy
no a ? However, di wee
not its her to be anything but pleas-
at
ant to any; servant, anti she smiled
the openlyreanadtritiring little man,
„I f h ember," she' said cordially,
'oPe )four 'broken leg mended
well, Takes?"
"Thank you, madam, it's good as
now," he beamed.
"Get us something to eat, Takes—
soup, sandwiches, . anything," said
Giles. "Then you oan take the car
round to the garage, and I shan't
Want you any more to -night"
"'Very good, sir," said Takes', and
he disappeared.
In' spite of the central heating,
Meryl shivered, not, perhaps, with
cold.
Giles cast an eloquent glance at
the exiguous dress she wore, and
switched on an electric stove,
whose artificial logs and blocks of
coal amazingly resembled a real
fire.
Meryl cowered over it, and warm-
ed het' hands.
"Who are you ringing up?" she
called sharply, as through the open
door into the hall she saw Giles at
the telephone,
"Your fiat," he said curtly.
Meryl lounged back in her chair.
"How did you know where I live?'
she, asked icily, "You may as well
spare your pains, Nora won't be
home for hours yet."
".If at all," he commented dryly.
`'01 course I know your address.
However, it doesn't matter, I was
only going to warn her not to expect
you to -night."
Meryl sat up very tsraight fn the
chair,
"You must he metal', she gasped.
"What makes you imagine I'll stay
here with you?"
"Because I intend you shall," he
told her steadily,
"I will not stay," she flamed out,
and the dear youngness and utter
defenceless et her as she defied him
made him inwardly wince,
How could he ever forgive himself
for leaving this dear child without
the protection he owed her? If no
lasting harm had. befallen her, he
kaew it was no thanks to him.
He took the chair beside her.
"Listen, Meryl, you're my reel)
sibility. Don't trouble to tell
I'm awning my responcs�tbility v
late in the day, because I know i
he put in quickly, before she co
speak. "Until you are older, a
better able to take care of yourse
you must live under my root."
'ISo I'm to stay simply for t
sake of soothing your consoience
she cried springing up.
"If you choose to put it like the
t
he agreed gravely, rising to la
her,
"I'm glad' you feel guilty, but I'
not .interested in the state of yo
clonscience," she vowed.
"I've hurt you more than enough,
he said', "You can't exped5 me t
stand by and. see you wrack you
lovely young life,
'So you're bent on doing you
duty by me," mocked Meryl- "Ve
virtuous and highfalutin. But you'v
forfeited) all right to meddle wit
my life, and I'd' do as I like with it,
She ran to the outer door, but i
PASS locked and she saw no key.
"'ah " she cried, her cheeks
flaming, her eyes two angry blu
fires and, she ran to the. window.
Giles was there 'before her, draw-
ing back the curtains.,
"Fourth floor, he remanked lab
onically, "You'd toms to a sticky
end if you left the fiat that way,,'
"�o you!" she cried tensely.
ad"Ytr• have rause to," he
out of her sbniehoar taking the wind
h'er sails. "For all that,
You're my wide, and I intend taking
care 01 you math/ you can do 1t for
ht, hen ? , sae. asked, standing
e s'wbrd in her gleaming
satin. Her young breast rose and fell
stormily; and her epees were ablaze.
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ly, ''I'll find a way to give you your
freedom.'
"Then you don't plata to keep me
a prisoner all my life?'
"No,' he told her baldly. ',Sit
down, make the best of things. Have
some soup. It's sure to be good; it
always is here.'
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hide it from him she sank bank into
her chair.
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