The Brussels Post, 1942-10-7, Page 211
rdict,
Iked from the end
he lamp post opposite
e, from the lamp post
the corner of the road, and
the corner ot: the road back to
lanai) post again.
It was not an entertaining strip of
road, for on one side ran the sheds
of the railway, and on the other
were three butchers" 'shops, two
fishmongers. and an. undertaker's,
but Jean had not chosen it for its
entertaining qualitice.
Rather she had chosen it because,
in addition to the excellent view
-which it commanded of the railway
sheds, it also afforded a view of a
certain house which had a brass
pl-tc on the door. and which was
situated between the larger of the
fishmongers and the undertaker's.
The plate on the door informed
the passer-by that the house belong.
ed to a Doctor MoNab, and every
time she passed the door, Jean re
read the inscription as though she
hoped to gain from it some know-
ledge of what was passing behind i
the forbidden portals.
When the door plate failed to
satisfy her curiosity, she would
75 the heavily -curtained windows
with anxious eyes, but these told her
nothing more than the door plate.
At last, when she was walking
her beat for what seemed to her to
he about the hundredth time, she
saw the door of the doctor's house
open. and her father's, tall, thin figure
walk somewhat stiffly out into the
street. 7.74.1
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Jean quickened her footsteps, and
reached the doctor's house Just in
time to hear him call out --"And
dinna ye forget what I've told yet',
and to see him give an admonitory
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towns of the north of ringland, and
Mogare thn, is what brings me to Mudthorpe „
after all these years,"
If you're going to be her long,"
suggested Mr. Travers, "why not pop
in and have a meal with us one
evening? As I've already told you, beside her at. the table.
you'll find us in the same old house." "Well, we mustn't keep David
"I'd love to," ,scticl David grate- while I tell you all about it," an-
nounced Mr. Travers, "or he'll be
late arriving at his next industrial
centre. It's boo long a tale for
Itim to wait to bear now. Goad -Bye,
David, and good itrek, and don't
forget about that weekend you're
coming to stay with use when we're
settled halek In Mudthorpe. again."
"You bet 1 won't, sir, said David,
as he shook hands wai'nely first with
jean and then with, her father. "And
thanks most awfully for the invite -
Um," He slipped his hand into
his breast pocket and drew out a
visiting card; which he laid on the
table in, front of Mr. Travers. "That
address will alwaYs find me, so let
me know when you're back here
again and I'll come along like a
shot."
Jean watched his broad shoulders
vanish from the restaurant, then
she turned eagerly to her father,
"Now .do tell me, daddy," sha im
planed him, "what you meant by
saying that we were going to leave
Mudthorpe for a time, and all that
Dr. MdNah has said to you."
5 -balk- el his linger before he dosed
;he door.
Mr. Travers raised his hat as he
w Jean hurrying along the pave -
towards him,
"Well, daddy," she enquired, slip-
ping- her arm 'through his, "what did
he saY? "
"Oh, aU sorts of things." replied
Mr. Travers Bghtly.
"Tell me," commanded Jean,
"Let's go and have tea dist," sug-
gested her father.
An anxious look crept into Sears
grey eyes, and the hand which she
had laid upon her father's arm
trembled slightly.
"Id rather hear now," she said;
but he only laughed.
"I could tell You 'while we have
tea," he said. "I saw quite a nice
restaurant—it didn't look too ex-
pensive—at the other end of this
road as wre coming along,"
jean did not angue the point, She
knew that his unwillingness to tell
her what the doctor had said meant
that the report had not been a good
one, so she thought it batter to let
him give it to her in his own way,
I in his own time.
"I wonder,'' mused Mr. Travers, as
they walked along to therestaurant
wie.A5 he had already spotted, "whY
it is that a man with the,reputation
of Dr, MoNat chooses to live in the
skunnmy quarter of the town.
jean laughed,
"I expect because he's Scotch," she
hazarded. "But I do wish you'd' tell
me what he .said."
"Here we are—this is the restaur-
ant I meant." ,said Mr, Travers. "And
now while we have tea, you
a full and truthful amount of all that
passed 'between Dr. MeNab and me."
Eta the recital of his interview
with the famous doctor was destined
to be postponed still longer, for he
had no sooner given his order to the
waitress who was on duty at their
table, than a young man sitting at a
near -by tabla suddenly pushed
beck his chair and came across to
them,
Jean had never seen him before,
but thought that with his tall, broad -
shouldered figure and well -cut
features and pleasant smile, he look
ed as extraordinarily cheerful in-
dividual.
Ile held out his hand to
Travers as he reached the table,
and J'ean's father took it with a
slight look of mystification,
"You don't rememfber me, sir," be-
g -an the young man, "my name is
David Edwards, and donkeys years
ago you used to try and teach lite to
play the piano."
Mr. Traversface lighted up sud-
denly.
"Of amuse I remember you now,
thougli you've grown out of all
recognition," he said. "But I sup-
pose that is not to be surprised at
when one thinks it must be very
nearly twenty years since I saw you
last. This is my daughter, Jean.
You may remember her as a baby in
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David's eyes rested with a look of
undisguised admiration on Jean's
slim. loveliness.
"I remember, sir, that you had a
baby when I used 10 COMO, to you for
music lessons, but I'd forgotten
what she was like."
Jean laughed,
"It's to be hoped, Mr. Edwards,"
she: said. "that I have *changed
slightly since 1 was a baby, because
judging by my photographs taken at
an early age I mast have been a
partinularly plain one,"
David looked as though h.e would
liked to have remarked that he found
her e.nything but plain new, but in-
stead he turned to Mr, Travers and
asked him whether he was living
in Itilualthorpe utf 11,
Mr, Travers nodded.
"Yes," he said, "we still live in
the stone house where you used to
mune and render scales in alt
exanactatingly bad manner,"
David Shook his ead.
"I'm afraid I never hall 0.11(Y Baur
for triage," he said, "I gave 1114 trying
to learn the piano after my people
left Mualthonpe."
"And where do yoU live now
asked Mr. Traventr.
niy poen% live down hair
Brighton,' returned David, 'IRA 2,
atetuallY, IlOAt rearBil the coats),
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Wednesday, Ocober 7th, 1942
lully "but unfortunately, I'm leaving
Mudihorpe to -night, In fiter —he -
jerked 1'I the sit'e'.' of his jacket
to consult his wrist watch—"I ought
to have started ten minutes ago,
hut I spotted you at this table and I
felt I must just come and have tt
word for the sake of old times. I
shall be back in Mudtharpe though,
by the end of the month, and Fa
love to come and see you then if I
may,"
Mr. Travers shook his head, with
a rueful little smile. •
"I'm afraid there won't be any of
us to come and see by the end of the
month," he announced. "We're leav-
ing the place for the tame being, but
You must come and stay a weekend
with us when 'we come back."
David appeared, as though he
would like to make all arrangements
for that week.end at once, but good
manners prevented his actually nail-
ing his prospective host down to a
particular date.
"It's very kind of you and your
father to ask nie" — he smiled at
Jean, as he spoke—"and I shall look
forward to it t.411 you come back."
Then in a would -he casual tone of
voice he added—"When do you
think that will be?"
'Mot I don't understand.' Jean
sounded thoroughly bewildered. "1
MIA know we were going away
until father said so just now. Do
explain what you Mean, daddy," she
added, timing to the tall, gaunt man back of her deep grey eye5s, all the
with the stooping -shoulders who sat afternoon was suddenly lightened.
"Well," returtin Mir. Travers,
speaking in a slow ,and thoughtful
tone of voice, "that was the principal
thing he said—that I must get away
from Madthorpe for a thne, whatever
happens. He seemed to think that
being on the river, and possessing
such a rotteary damp climate, it was
the very plaice to make my rheuma,
tis'ra worse."
Jean' looked relieved, and the anaii-
ety which had been lurking at the
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"Woo that all he said?" she wanted
to know. "I mean; does he really
think that if we just move to some
drier part of the country yen will
get rid of the rheumatism "
Mr, Travers' hand closed over hers
with a swift:, protecting gesture.
"No, kiddie," he .said, and his
voice whs. very serious. "Ile said
all sorts of other things as well,"
Instantly the taxxlety had leapt
Iraclt into jean's, Byes, bu he spoke
quite calmly and steadily when she
enquired— •
"Such as?'
'For one thing," her father told
her, "he said tirlat I had taken about
five year too long in thinking about
going to see him, Had I gone to
him years ago he would probably
have suggested, a course of massage
at the local hospital, but that things
had. gone too far now for that to do
any good."
"Witat does he suggest instead "
asked Jean, alit spealdng in that
unnaturally calm and steady voice.
"He did more than suggest," said
Mr. Travers, "he practically ordered
me to clear out of here at' once and
go straight to one of the big spas in
GerMany."
J'ean's forehead wrinkled up into
lines of perplexity.
"But won't that be most horribly,
expensive?" sire wanted to know.
'I'm afraid so, dear; but"—and he
smiled a. little twisted smile --"he
tells rrre the only other alternative
Is to allow myself to become abso-
lutely cr:ipplecl with rheumatism,
hands and all, then I should no
longer be able to keep any post as
organst at St, Leulte's Church, nor
gO on giving music lessons, and
what would become of us then "
"Oh, of course we must go to
Germany!" said Jean cheerfully. "If
Dr. McNair thinks that is the only.
thing that's going to do you any
good. 'But was, Just wondering how'
we walla going to manage it.'"
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