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"'Prison:" she
"'But .why,♦ Inn it:
"I have lived far beyond
come, a little because of my o
extravagance, I know, but chiefly for
your sake, my dear, I wanted you tc
have the best—and the best rot.-.
money. 1 have but a small tnecote
settled on me by your father v. see
he deserted us, and plunged a l•ttle
on what I considered good advte.
in order to start you well in tate
world. I lost. I've had to borrow.
I was even forced into such a corne.
once. that I gave a chesue I couldn't
meet. Then one man came to iny
aid. Most splendidly. Don't Yon
guess who that was?"
"Not Reggie Moreton?" Hazel
whispered. "And
"Yes," admitted 'her mother,
there's something worse—"
"There can't be."
"Once when I was desperate -not
knowing where to turn to settle
some pressing 'bills—for your dress-
es, darling—a fellow guest in a
country house dropped a pendant as
she 'walked along a corridor. I saw
it drop and picked it up with the in-
tention of returning it. Then the
temptation rose. You can see it?
I didn't report • my find, and—Ws
ghastly, I know, but Reggie found
out, bought back the pendant from
the man who had paid me five hun-
dred, for it, and, pretending to find
it somewhere, returned it to its
owner. 11 could go to prison tor
that if Reggie happened to turn our
enemy instead of being our friend."
THE BRUSSEi.S POST
repeated, dazedly
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see a laughing group at the
cafe towards the Plage, Laelty fo.k
not having t0 'face this problem
.hat confronted her. Or did they t
How little one knew of the trials,
the stresses, the Shifts, the heart-
ats
aches that went on in the peep e
passed—even in those one knew
fairly intimately. She supposed
some such trouble as •hers entered•
into most lives,
"Not into Mabel's," she whispered,
led with a
enviously. And cynicism aslshe thought how
of sad syn•
little she could have imagined her-
self envying Mabel a few days ago,
C�JC-3E.�
"I have never worried you with went on, "I nave yearned for it for
the details of our life. You have my own sake."
naturally thought us rich, able to do
I "What do you mean, mother?
as we liked. T have given you a Don't beat about the bush."
good education and have striven to
shape you for a comfortable exist- 'Very well. Put plainly, it amounts
ance, 'which, as I have told Yoe, to this—that unless you marry Reg -
means a successful marriage. Tbat gie—or someone equally blessed
is why you have found the best wish this world's goods—you will
among the young set about us. The see your mother in prison."
boys -were there at my instigati•m
Mr you to choose from. I wanted Of the vague restless fears that
success for your own. sake. But-- had penetrated Hazel's mind during
especially recently—" Mrs. VineY's the past few minutes this was worse
Voice caught a little before she than anything she had conceived.
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• The significance in her tone me
derlined the words, but cleverly
Mrs, Viney made no obvious appeal
Surely the facts would be suf-
ficient to make Hazel throw up this
absurd love affair with an unknown
man casually met and marry Reggie
An she did say was: "Even put-
ting any disgrace aside—thoagn
that would reflect on you, of course,
What would you do? You -would he
penniless, and what -would your new
lover think if he found you were the
daughter of a—a—criminal?"
That last point struck hardest
Hazel lay back as if indeed a physi-
cal blow had been administered to
her. She felt her new world re•
ceding from her grass—like sand
.slipping between fingers.
'SI've tried—struggled to get
straight. That was why I went • tc
Paris—to raise money. I failed,,"
Another nail in the coffin of Haz-
el's dreams. And as she lay there
other nails were adroitly driven in
by the hauntingly pathetic voice of
her mother.
Here was no possibility of com-
promise. Here was a crisis de-
ananding a clear decision. Reggie or
Bill—her mother's disgrace or ner
own selfish happiness.
And in that moment Hazel gave
no thought to that other sharp divi
sion whioh the situation had creat-
ed, On one side luxury, on the
other something approaching pov-
erty.
The ane question was—could she
let her mother down?
"I shall not come to dinner,
mother," she said, brokenly, "You
go and tell Reggie I've got a head-
ache or something, Leave me alone
while I think it out."
She realised as she spoke that
this another of hers ,had done what
she could for her in her misguided
manner.
Mrs. Viney rose with a sigh,
�Pl1 try and show a smiling face
to the world—as I have done for
years," she said—and went once
more to powder her face,
Or was it in order that her back
should he turned, towards It ,r
daughter so that the gleam of tri-
umph In her eyes should be hidden?
'Certainly it seemed no effort W
her to look pleasant as she eatln}er-
ed across the hotel lounge and join-
ed Reggie Moreton.
"Olt, you men " She greeted hint
facetiously.
"`What have awe done now that's
newt? "
"Nothing very new—old as the
hills, soy dear man. Somehow You've
managed to •eitcl'te the Child until
her head is swimming.' She's had to
Ile down. Bade me gi're you her
love and tell you she'll expect to see
you in the`tnorningl'
The frown left Reggie's face,
Did she really say that?'
The 'mother nodded.
"And 'Much more—not for your
ears;"'
Mrs, Wine'; Was 'in great moJt1
that night. She Was certain. Hazel
wetild ho "the sensflile thing,"
• * s
t HAS3'i`NER V.
'The Haute B'eautlfUl
l(azel telt as i2 all the world
Were against her,
She eat at her bedroom Wlnilow
looking serosa the bay, Peoblo
passed along the promenade. She
"Bu` I do envy' her,' she admit-
ted frankly," and every other girl
who can go to the man she loves."
She permitted herself to go over
the details of that one afternoon of
confession -with Bill—the dear way
he had told her of his love. How
modest he had been, how glowingly
enraptured when she had told him
she loved him. He had never asked
her shout herself, That was trust
and—
"Yes, indeed," she said, recalling
her mother's ,words, "what would he
say to find I have a mother who ° And as soon as
could do—what she has done."
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there seemed a loophole as long as cronvde behind Reggie came to the
it was not dispatched, point.
"Hada word or two with your
Rt was• the second day after her 1
return that Hazel detected a dimother last night' 'he said. "I—er—1
ffer• I thought I would mention the matter
once in Reggie. He was more to her—sort of formality you under-
attentiVe; there was almost a dour'' stand. It was about—well, the
ence in his altitude towards her. Ile date, Hazel. Told her I meant to
dropped his poise of the lackadaisi- ask you fix it. Will you? I should
cal, avoided his fllppancies be so—happy if you would. Sooner
the better for ire, because—well,
speech, and for the first time con -
She
I
corned himself with her comforts. 1 I wonder whether you 'know how
wondered whether this wast keen I am, my dear? Doni am ---
't taIk
the result of some advice of her well about it, I know, but
deuced keen. What do you think?'
So it had, come. Here was the
last chance to back out, when other-
wise she had to let the seal on her
fate. No use to prevaricate.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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mother's. Reggie was certain:;
pondering something, It boded a
move towards crisis.
In the afternoon, when she did uct
see him as a rule, he rang her roma
and suggetsed a stroll.
She went.
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He would surely turn from her if e,- -
they had left
-
he knew. Or would he cast aside
every consideration and take her?
Should she risk everything both tor
herself and her_mother and go to
Bill, tell him the truth of her 1
mother's sin, her own engagement,
and let him decide?
No, it was for her to decide—and
all along she had been aware what
that decision would have to be.
There were a thousand instances—
millions very likely—where a
daughter had made supreme sacri-
fice for her people. She must, She
couldn't see her mother in prison.
No, it was for her to decide; no
one could help her.
Yet ale the evening she couldn't
force herself to say even within her
own mind the definite 'word which
should end all chance of joining her
life with Bill.
Mrs, Viney fluttered into her
room towards midnight. Hazel was
still seated at the open window ap-
parently enjoying the warm, sum-
mer night,
"Darling, it's been pretty grim
playing about with the crowd with
this horrible shadow creeping ovet
us. How do you feel?"
"Rather fed up, mother," the girl
answered, listlessly,
Mrs. Piney knew her girl would
do as she wished, but she was too
wise to let Hazel see her certainty.
"We'll both see things clearer In
She morning. If I have to go down
—well, it's that you will go with me
that hurts most. Have you had any
thing to eat? Let me ring for a
tray."
Hazel shook her head—she could-
n't eat—her, head throbbed. Her
one desire was to sleep if she could
sleep and forget,
Surprisingly, she did, The room
was filled with sunshine when she
woke. For a moment she smiled;
her first thought had been of Bill.
She subconsciously imagined the
was at the bungalow.
Then the truth flooded over he-;
she was drowned in misery and it
was a sad Hazel who dressed and
went down to breakfast towards tee
o'clock.
She forced a smile to greet Reggie
'Better, old thing?'he asked.
"Going for the usual porpoise act "
Why not? Couldn't sit and moon
all day. Swim, dance—anything.
The old silly stuff babble and cock-
tal$s—mlotorinil—dull hours in the
casino—flying; Perhaps they might
crash and settle everything,
All that day on the beach or
wherever they went, she kept meet-
ing people vim had heard of her en-
gagement and congratulated her,
That engagement seemed to cry
aloud to the heavens. She telt ere
must scream every time it was
mentioned.
"Proud o' you, you know," Reg-
gie ventured once after they had
turned, from a crowd that had teased
them. He wasn't going to growl
lover-11ke, the hoped. But ser
,mind, had accepted the Inevitable;
there 'was nothing for it but to ace
eept.
And the swirl of lite about her-"
the .hundred friends and their gay
gossip, the quiet possessiveness of
.Iteggie, the utter need of her
mother's—Swept her on her course
of acceptance,
'Only she couldn't bring herselt
to write the fatal letter•, somehow
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