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By Susan Redgrave
"Yes," said 'Connie, bluntiUy, and
'closed' her pretty lips with a smelt.
Wild a onses would not 'have drawn
from; her the story of Gerda's, humlli•
anon, '
aim not going to ask what it is,"
,said Miss Oheveley quietly.
ISlhe looked so sbitened, so utterly
unlike her usual Sharp-tongued self,
that 'Connie felt remorseful,
"Of course, everybody under-
istandis, dear Miss Clhaveley, •that it
isn't your fault," she lhaetened to
easy. "Everybody knows that you're
net well offer-- (Ohl" And poor
Connie broke oft in disarray. This
wool only. making things wore, not
better.
So everylody •speake of me as a
pover'ty+stricken old maid?" rasped
oust Miss Anne,
"So you see, dear Miss Oheveley,"
man on Connie, bent on saying
everything while ejhe had the chance,
"if Gerd'a is to be different, she
simply must earn some money for
herself."
"And who, I ehould like to know,
has made it their business to decide
that I am unable to provide ade-
quately for the needs of my great
niece?" demanded Miss, Anne with
immense dignity. "Now. young
woman, draw your chair nearer and
let you end me put our heads to-
gebh er,"
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R. CHAPTER III,
The Transformed Cinderella
They put their heads together to
such purpose that before the slightly
You Roil Them Bet+erWith
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dazed Garcia knew where she was,
Abe and 'Connie were staying In the
tall Bloomsbury grouse with her
grandfather, her another's father.
The grandfather, wlb'o spent his be sent to BloneesiburY mounted
days at the British Museum, Gerda , 'higher and higher, "She cau't have
never guite knew why; vas as deep- enough anoney to pay for all this."
ly absorbed in this' books as. Miss "Mad," 'scoffed Connie, "On the
Cheveley in her rheamiatiSCn, and he contrary, Miss Clreveleyw just come
to her senses. Elie has sent these
shops a banker's reference and all
the 'bills are to gp to tree." Bat still
Garda felt ruin must be. staring her
aunt in the face,
"That's, finished it," the two earn-
est young guides at last decided,
When even they could think of nu
possible further addition to Genie's
wardrobe that could by any stretch
et imagination, be called necesary.
"Mies 'Cheveley will think we have
"Isn't it awful?" agreed Connie done marvel on the money," added
with brutual frankness. "The ool- Connie.
our's all right, but it simply won't Gerda, who thought quite other,
keep tidy."
ed upon calling an ugly duckling
into 8 swan. On the clothes ques-
tion She was meekness itself, and
the three girls had the time of their
lives, fitting her out for every
occasion.
"Aunt Anne must have gone quite
mad," uiurauin'ed the dazed Garda,
as the piles of gaaanents ordered to
was apt to Potrget his. young grand-
daughter for hours at e, time.
The day after their arrival, ;Connie
marched her charge off to a minute
crop, a niers isilice of a large
building, where a cousin of tens was
starting to work up a very promising
beauty business,
"Your ;hair'." groaned Eileen Ash-
field, when eirtst her eyes fell on
Garda.
"The col'our's lovely," Eileen a-
, greed, erftically, "Or rather it will
be waren it's had a washing or two
with one of one of any best prepar•
ations."
"I'm not going to have my hair
dyed, if that's what you mean," the
victim prlotested.
"It is'nt a ,dryet it's — oh, well
wise, gazed entranced at her in-
numerate and newly -acquired, all
laid out int one of the .pare bed-
rooms of the Bloomsbury house.
"I had a letter Proal. Miss CneveleY
this morning," said 'Connie, her eyes
wandering round the room from one
pile of beautiful gaamrents to anoth-
er. "L8he say's we're not to .spoil
the ship for a +ha-pont;h of tar, and we
haven't," she grinned impishly.
you'll Seel It will work wonders for
Efleee''s tennis 'club gave its
you," cried the indignant inventor annual •dance that night. Connie's
"A dye, indeed i" 1 fiance, Ted 'Skinner, was coming
"You put yourlself in 17i1esn'e from Easlborough for the occasion.
hand% and in a couple of days You
"I`ve got my own partner, Gerda,"
Won't know yourself," Maid Connie , explained Eileen, "and they are
soothingly, as if addressing a enact- i ,singing along a anan Por you.
lows child of five. i meet us at the hall,"
"Yes, but—" began Garda.
"Miss Oheve'ley said I was to Connie heaved a great sigh.
see you properly turned out, and P'•m I "Eileen, don't yeti know exactly 'vow
going to do it f it's the last good i a Mother feels when .she takes her
deed of my life,"'•announced Connie your daughter out for the first
firiltly. "Don't be tiresome 'about it, 1 time into society. I'm all 'twitter-
Gerda. Eileen's clever, if she is my I ing lest the eche-ild shouldn't do us
cousin, and she 'knows what to do.'" credit" 7ignVII ,
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There were very different prepare -1
tioays from those Gerda rushed over
on the disastrous 'opening of the new
cinema, Slbe looked; at Ihenself in
the glass and cowl& nearly have
cried for that other poor little Gerda.
She Qrad not been allowed to have
a Peep until she was fully dressed,
and she &cull scarcely 'believe her
own eyes.
Gone were the lar.,. and wispy
lochs;, and in their glace was a de-
lightful "windblown" effect of 'bright
(hair that—marvel of marvels—re•
mained in its ordered beauty te the
end of the evening. Connie's Cousin
had been right waren, she insisted
that there anon he nothing too form-
al and set about Gerda's hair-
dressing.
"You laughed at any prerpanation,
but hasn't it done wonders for
brows and lashes+, even in this little
tune?" demanded the delighted
Eileen.
Perhaps the "preparations' had
.something to do with it, but, auYWaY.
Geteda's grey eyes glowed and
sparkled live a pair of jewels, set
about with dutIty fringes'. Thee
®u
'l l be glad
One of these days bombs may come
our neighborhood.
Yourndown
aybe left in ruins. You
feebly
or your child May be crying feebly'
Your house
for help. Your friends, your
maybe left homeless.ens, you'11 never
No matter whathapp eR'lled never
ave to the
to help y ds
s.
regret that you hand of you generously.
War Service Funds
The
Reams out the grief and pain. olyf
those crushed by g Camrlpaign this year
Ily National .. CaOSS
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9 gaV
turn a deaf ear to the cry of
will n injured and the suffering.
the
The Canadian Red Cross is just your heart with other Canadian hearts
assion for suffering
beating 1n CO.0 want to beet part of
humanity.
n angre Ymission of mercy. Yen
to our Red Cross. Open will give 9d purse strings'•
our heart an
to the
Redts
Tho She
ccoun
easssr subject to scrutiny
by then 51 dice eneral
f
needed
NoW,
1e
couldn't belong to her, she thought
almost shyly, nor could the span
loveliness reflected in the mirror, in
a dinging swirl •of ,misty black net.
"Now we knew what you're really
like, Gentle," ;Connie declared with
sat1J,taction. "We never 'could in
Hoose durnesy clothes,"
"It's really ane?" breathed the
ecstatic Gerda, unable to tear her
eyes from the radiant reflection of
herself in the glans. "I know Qvow
Cinderella felt after that fairy god-
mother had got to work with her,
Only I've got two fairy godmothers."
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She whirled about and easel
Connie and Eileen in one raptureas
embrace. "I never can thank yam
enough,"
"Gently, infant,'" Eileen protested
with an elderly air. "You sit sUUB
while Can and I rush into our glad'
rags"
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