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Beautiful
By Mander Ross
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"Thank you, my dear. Yes, Bill is
a good boy, Not too well off. Whica
is a good thing, because the joy or
success is in the tight He's an ar-
chitect just started on his own, I've
a small interest in his business, and
1 am sure I shall get good dividends
one day. Not that that matters ex-
cept it will prove he's the stuff in
him."
They had nearly reached the toot
of the steps before he referred to his
friend again.
"1 do hope you'll like Bill. If you
do—well, there's a place fo ra fourth
friend—for you."
* * r
It was as though every circum-
stance had led up to the meeting of
William Gladden and Hazel Viney.
Hazel had turned her face from
her old life and was looking with
renewed interest on one of which
she had not dreamed before. She
stood like some young goddess
come from the deeps of a wood to
look on a new open country, her
arias outflung to greet the freshness
of reueeted spaces.
That evening, watching from then'
garden, they saw Mr. Strange stand.
ing on the steps of the hotel across
the way. The steps led right on
to the pavement and offered a view
down the street to the village.
5Suddenly they saw hmi throw up
his hand and set off to meet a
young man who was stepping brisk•
ly down the road, carrying hie own
bag. The cry from him reached the
girls' ears.
"Jack!" That was the first time
they had heard Mr. 'Strange's Chris.
tian name, Along the road they
saw the boy's hand waving excited•
ly. Evidently this was a Joyful
meeting.
As the two men regained the hots:
steps Strange saw the girls in. the
garden.
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'Van we over?"'
They both waved a welcome.
Come whenever you like," called
Mabel, And width no obvious
reason they both felt excited while
waiting.
After dinner the men came across
Hazel wore a dress of old gold with a
!black rose at her breast. She look-
ed Madonna -like with her hair Part-
ed down the middle and drawn back
straightly over the earn.
Strange came gaily into the little
lobby. "Here's Bill," he announced,
and then gave the newcomer their
names.
Hazel felt electrically in the air.
There wsa magic about.
"How do you do?"
A simple phrase; she heard her
voice speak it. And she saw hi,,t
smile at her and hold out his hand.
Then they grasped in what seeme't
ordinary greeting. But it wasnr t
ordinary. A wave flooded througa
and over her. His brown eyes swam
to her 'vision; she felt unstable,
wavery, uncertain of herself.
A week ago this could not have
happened with any man on earth.
But now she felt in a strange
country where anything was pos-
sible. Seh told herself it was silly
but his lace smiled, his eyes smiped;
they stood looking at each other anct
in the look melted and mixed.
She was a little giddy as if an
elixir had been introduced into her
beins. She thrilled and felt strange-
ly moved as she grew aware that
still he held her hand, and still he
looked into her eyes,
"Come out-o—n to the terrcoe,"
she said in what she hoped was con-
ventional greeting.
He nodded. She had not yet hard
his voice. He had not as much as
shaken hands with Mabel, who hao
monopolised Mr. Strange, and witn
her hand through hie arm was lead-
ing him from the sitting -room
through the French doors into the
shadowed evening.
"Coffee?" Hazel heard her fri'n:
invite.
"Thanks, that will be delightful.
Come along, Bill."
IStrange's voice woke the others
from a trance. Hazel laughed ner-
vously. The tension broke,
"Yes, come and have coffee."
Again the words were banal, but
she glanced up to his face and again
felt the electric current flashing
;between them.
They were out on the terrace.
"What a gorgeous spot." He had
spoken. The voice was low and
musical—caressing.
That was what Hazel thought and
in the next moment she was telling
herself something had bewitched
her, She darted off to help Mabel
in preparing the tray with coffee,
"What do you think of him " Mabel
asked, carelessly.
"I don't know—yet," Hazel ans-
wered, and there must have beeu
some betraying timbre in her voice,
dor Mabel shot a glance at her as if
to read what lay behind that curious
quiver.
!Mabel was remembering the sang
froid of this girl but a few days ago.
Qrer poise, her nonchalance with the
smart folk of her set,
Never had she heard the others
voice juiver in interest as it had done
now.
"Looks a good sort—friendly and
easy," vouchsafed Mabel.
5
'Yes," replied, Hazel, helplessly,
As yet she wasn't aware of her own
,sensations. She could not have put
them into words. Her mind was
whirling.
Their eyes met again! as she went
in carrying the tray. It was amaz-
ing— absurd. The sun had touched
Cher—It had, been so hot all day. But
she was cnriouslp atrium up as she
sat in the settee beside Bill Gladdon
and only baguely took In what was
being said,
"— -heaven, that,s what it Is --
after London, 'Sweltering, Jack, lit-
erally, What a lucky fellow you are
to be able to bask where and whes
you like."
It was 5111 Gladdon speaking, He,
too, then, was one of the world's
Workers with probably his fortnight
of holiday. All so remote froth her
ordinary life in which the men and
girls did what they liked, went when
and where they pleased and contri-
bated nothing to the work of bila
world,
Hazel• liked this plunge lute What
seemeti reality after stagnation,
And she liked Bill's voice and sbe
diked the look of him,
I -Ie was a trifle abort with a rugged
face that might have been described
by some of her ultra -frank girl
friends 50 ugly. His russet bro?vn hair
was ruffled, his clothes were Care-
less, in contrast to her own Perfec-
tion, but there was a new world In
his velvet eyes—a new comradeship
a
frankness of friendship she had
never experienced before,
Only hours later as she lay in hed
%seeking to sort out her emotions did
she know how affected she was a^
this meeting of a boy she had never
before seen,
Sitting up against tre pillows, het:
book thrown aside, stating out of the
window into the moon -blanched night,
she decided that this was her first
experience of reality. The years that
-had gone didn't matter. She felt the
things Mabel had tild her about her
boy were no longer silly, but that they
were possible, that they might happeu
to her.
She had fallen in love.
And then came that flood of fell.
Was it on one side only? Id seemed
incredible that the same magic could
have happened to Bill Gladdon that
had happened to her, And there would
be the tragedy—a fate she admitted
she deserved for her reviling of love,
Was this to be her punishment?
He had been most attentive in the
gloom that followed the sunset when
the four of them had sat orb in the
cool and gossiped.
Now in bed she was counting all
the occasions when, he had evinced
Special interest in her, in her view of
some subject, in her comfort.
Was that because he had sat on tl.e
outside of the send -circle they had
made and she happened to be near-
est? Or was it because Mabel's
early admission of her engagement
pat his attitude towards her on a
more distant footing.
"Oh," she cried out aloud. to her
empty room, remembering it for the
first time, "and to -morrow Mr.
Strange is certain to tell him I am
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How right Mabel had been in waru-
Ing her that she would regret her
engagement when the right Man came
along.
Not that Bill had gt.,en her any
right to imagine he had taken any
special fancy to her. Had he? She
went over and over the incidents of
the evening. True, he had appeared
(keen when she had offered to show
him the way down the steps to tate
beach.
(TO BE C'ONTINUED.)
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