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Twenty-filve Years Old it np, fez' to me. Invitee hailll ana dozen
pos.l bles' among the girls that /on
Torry aliened . Aulit Lat•lnia s know. You said lwenty..Ave, and Peiletter, amazed to see the Post -mare gating to see feet yeti stick to it,
Was England, So Aunt 'Lavial0. Ever your loving, '
was back after three years' galti- "Aunt Lavinia."
wanting about the Continent: Had "P.S.--.Don't let the fact that you
elle tired of it. at last- caul fly any m ee make any differ -
The to you, boy, There's lots to do
Tho vary $rtt lino made a rue at the New Hall." -•
ful smile curve his lips—"Time's Bloss your old heart, Aunt Levin-
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pvlyvP'.' i.a,'' eald Tony, with a smile, I
He put:down the letter and made believe yu've tome back because
a vigorous onslaught on his bacon• you knew 1'd be worrying."
and -eggs. Then he plastered his
.oast with butter, piled on the Tony looked down ruefully at his
marmalade, picked up the letter ami. He bad had a smash a fe s
and read it right through. wet :a before, hail escaped with uo
Wasn't that Aunt Lavinia all serious injurlr:•s, but he'd never 'fly 1
over—suddenly descending on him again because he had permanently
without any warning? Yet. it was injured his arm. So flying was over
a letter that was characteristic of as far as he was concerned.
the strong-minded determined wo-
man he had always felt she was.
"Sty dear Tony.—Time's up! Yoe
Promised me that if T didn't worry
you until you were twenty-five you
would settle down—get married.
You are twenty-five to -day. I have
given you your freedom until now,
but 1 am tired of Continental travel-
ling. Going abou from one hydro to
another on the Continent. drinking
the water of this tepee and that
`spa,' has made me a bad-temperel
and unpleasant old woman, I have
day, a.a everybody else click
The telephone bell rang, and he
Picked up the receiver.
4 ""'� `M"' ; ; "Hullo, Tony darling. " What ab'rit
A• z i t ,P' 3rr that spin In r 9 e 2 Your neav car? Yin
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•o E -1a, . prsrtrlsed' you'd let me try her out
•f J lei . for you I'm aching to get my
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•„ { .. 4 • fingers on the wheel.”
o 8 ,'• :*�: •2' Janice Morley, that dazzling, p'•o-
vocative Janice; with her sloe -black"
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•p eyes, and hair like a raven's wing.
e r 0 Janice, with her easy; gliding move-
• -, ® mint, and her slender curving
o c✓ body. Yes. he could marry Janice
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r ' 4 if be could marry anyone, and h.
A harppy for ever atter. Of course
, NOW IS THE TiME TO HAVE: she was selfish—but weren't they
6 YOUR HARNESS RE?A1REDOA an? Wasn't he selfish?
4 • No -elle couldnrt promise the
AN APA Y .ever after.
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o Brussels, opt ® "I Say, Janice, Aunt Lavinia
• ® Smedley is coming back to England,
Tien Ire made a rather dismayed
thee. Invite down half a: dozed
pl+ssible;! Who? That was the tries -
1100. -
P..a:her a tall order, but he 'hal
promitesd the old darling that he
be would think seriouriy about get-
ting married when he was twenty-
five, if she'd .leave him alone until
then.
Oddly enough, the idea, of getting
married didn't appeal in, the least,
and yet he supposed he'd do it
some
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+^^°^^'^'�•^�Nx^•�++++++..+. wants me to go back there and tete
a hnno]t of ]1koly g'ir:e with
'Likely girls? What Lara )'ou
t31.44J11,shout Tony?" There was
an e' a tt• ,Janice b voice.
":lily dear. as it happened, 1 prom -
teed that I'd get married at twenty-
five.
wentyfive. l'et the Daly one left ou ho:h,
si(ies,',
"You'll be frightfully rich, wan't l
you, Tony?" Janice's Voice, the
edge gone, all hoflty and, sweetness,
"Frightfully rich if 1 pleaiae Aunt
Lavinia. 1t snot -well, 7 heliev'.e if
Aunt Lavinia stopped my allowance,
I'd have two hundred a year in the
world. What about owning down
and seeing what The Hall's like in
the summer time ' '
7f I can run you down in your
new tar. I'll come,' said ,Tanlce
eagerly.
So that was settled.
Ho sat fur a moment Lain]:ins.
Janice and he were great pals, They
did everything together—danced
,ogether and dined together, flew'
together and motored together, He
supposed they'd run -In donole
harness pretty well, seeing they
like the seine things Did love come
in? Not on your life, he Thought
Anyway, since he couldn't drive,
she'd; he a help.
Well, he rnuat get a few mere
together, men as well as girl
Aunt Lavinia would do them all
well, give them a good holiday, and
there was the sea for bathing, aad
the tennis coutst and no enc! .of
ways of spending a lazy few oars;
Men of 30,40 50
PEP, VIM, VIGOR, Subnormal?
, Went normal p:p, sdm, vigor, vitality?
Try, Tonle Tablets, Contains
i tonna, stimulants, oyster elements—
�Jds 10 normal pep .after 10, 40 or -v0.
fist a special lntroductory size for only
ftTtyFthrs alit to normal pep and vire
t T• or sale et all good drug stores.
After all, he owed everything he
had to Aunt Lavinia—his allowance,
his simply perfect cban lyre in
Town, his new ear, which Janice'
was so enamoured of. He mustn't
grumble if 'sometimes :the wanted
a little of her own way.
All the fiends he invited prates-
ed themselves delighted to come
down to The Hall.
There was Cleo Royce. lie was,
extremely delighted.
"Oh course 111 sone, darling, i'
I can bring Douglas Manson. Oli, no
—nothing romantic, but 'se's gat a
car!„
Eve Meredith, sweet, polished,
Perfect Eve. with her brown herr
and strangely -marked brows.
What about Liane Crawford? A
bit gushing Liane, but pretty, In a
blonde, wax doll way.
11 Enough men to go round. of
course, or the party would he vo'e,l
dull.
He put up the receiver and for a
moment was quite serious.
Marriage was a bit of a serious
proposition. Was there one of :are
party be bad invited who would
stand the wear and tear of married
i Janke turned up to time fur ores
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life?
Weil, there would be plenty of
looney IA one thing, even It ha was
a hit ofaeroek
For it moment lute Tony's young
face came a look of gravity. Just
lately, rupee he had hurt his arena,
he had been drawn into society
more. That was James's fault -
She was an expert flyer, and he
had taught her to fly, Nowthat
he couldn't pilot any longer, she
was very eager to take him out and
about.
Through Janice lie had been
drawn into that -rather reckless
society world that had until very
lately, been anathema to him. Janice
wasn't well off. She had decided
to marry looney, but that she warm
fond of him, it was easy to see.
He got up and began to stroll
about the room, frowning a little
Strange how one got drawn int'o
things without realioing what .they
were leading to He wa n't really
fond of late nights, of dances, 01
rushing, round wildly, motoring.
skating. always with a Party of
young people.
-He could almost hear Uncle `Oa.
Wald declaiming that anything you
got without working for if, was bad
for the morale. He had a lot of
maxims: Uncle Oswald • had, bat
there was truth in them.
Would"Inde Oswald have approv
ed Of any of the girls that he knew
at the moment?
Cleo, wbo was ro gushing, out for.
the richest man! Eye, with her
way of finding out about a man's
grospecs, utterly on the surface.
Liane, with . a new young man
every mionth.
Although I simply adore you,
Tony, althougltt you come first,
mutt say I like a change sometimes.'
He could, hear Liane's drawl even
new. Odd. how one could drift into
things without realising where 7051
I were going? .On the whole, it was
1 a jolly good job that Aunt Lavinia
was coming back A little bit of her
I practical common-sense would be
like a clean wind, sweeping away
he over -scented almosphere he had
been living in lately.
i He gave orders for his man Is
I pack -
"Shan You be wanting me to go
dowel, sir?' 'said Forbes. •
"No. I think not. 1 sh?ll only be
I away for a few days."
She waved a tiny bag in his far?
"I've .:ant eeer•ylhhng i need on
advance so that I could ride
light," she cried gaily "Everything
1 •.v^nt for the night is in here."
Cb ver girl!" said Tony,
"oh, I'm always clever! -I rsT,
Tony. is it really a fact that the
Smedley fortune is close on a
millien?"
"Really a fact." said Tony.
"Just imagine the glory of spend-
ing it!"
"It'd take a life -time,', said ;any.
"Oh, no—I could get rid of it
sooner than theft.'' said, Janice,
laughingly, "I'dt buy me a villa at
Cannes. I'd have a p'alaoe in
Biarritz. I'd have a yacht and
go cruising wherever I wanted to,
I'd go in for rating. beautiful
horsest"
"And• poor Uncle Oswald, `could
rise in his grave. He had a rooted
abjection to gambling," said Tony.
"He knew enough about business to
know tha tbiokies would never go
on with it if tlhey didn't make melt
of the running. No, I can't see
Uncle Oswald's money being 'spent
that way,"
"Darling, don't be trying!" sat!
Janice cooingly. "It it's all Deft to
you, you,11 be able to spend it as
you Mee'
"Ai a matter if fact, I've got a
few scruples," said Tony alewife..
"7 remember Miele Otawald, and 1
conldn't really do things with that
money that he thoroughly drsapprov
ed of. 7 wouldn't waste It,"
"Dear old-fashioned precious:"
said Jan. "When you get all that
1 money, you'll find your wife w111
have somothieg to Say as to how
you'll spend it"
"1 ev.eipose she will," said Teny,
srnlling at her,
She wart the prettiest thing, dark
Wee shining black, great flathoinelss'�P�.!•
eyes that Could look unutterable IV •••••" BE"R'Y SI. .._—
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things, and equally could mean ~•'• 11 �.iAK A4 e ♦
t_Iatle ar 1)1010.
"COM e on xhv eel's t•uadv,
don't want me to preposIt on
spot, do you?"
"Shouldn't objeetl" she said
laughingly
Well, I'm not going to. I've put
off matrimony for so long, I'sn go-
ing to wait and see what ]lelrpens.'a
"Sensible boy! No good gettiu.;
married If Aunt .Lavinia Isn't goin o
to leave the money to you, eh?"
"Put 10 a nut -shell," said Tony,
' He was quiet for a little while.
Somehow the converrlatiou had left
a nasty taste in his mouth,. It all
seethed sordid and mercenary, Not
a bit the romantic idea that Uncle
Oswald bad had when he thought of
Tony getting married.
The oar was a beauty, a lovely
gleaming silver thing that could
plat up a marvellous! performance.
It had, cost a pretty Penny, too, role
there Were all sorts of expensive
things about it, Pity he couldn't
drive.
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Janice slipped into the drlvinG, knew that Aunt Lavinia would hate 4' .
seat and took the wheel. She look.no scrapies whatsoever. She'd re-
ed delicious enough in the red fuse to 'consider her and would not
linen frock, covered with a slcarlef hesitate to tell Tony so,.
suede sweater, with a zip -fastener TO BE CO.NTINUIED.
up to the chin, and a flumbuoyatit
little beret, scarlet suede. 00. pulled
welldawn over hersleek, black
head. If she were as nice all the
way 'through as her looks, Aunt
Lavinia would be sure to like her
thought Tony, Aunt Lavinia heal '
the uncanny knack of digging down
into what people really were. If
Janice were found wanting, Tony
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