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"Then why do you--" he began,
but cirecked himself, determined to
ask no awkward questions,
"It's so exciting, not knowing
where we'll stop!" laughed Meryl,
squirming like a schoolgirl. "It's a
marvellous idea, going ou until we
are to exactly the place we want to
stay at."
"Not an original idea, I'm afraid;'
Giles told her. "I'm hoping for a
quiet little pub in a small country
town. It's almost bound to be
comfortable and the cooking good."
Meryl gave another irrepressible
little trill of laughter.
Being with you makes it so ex-
citing that I don't believe I'll mind
much if it isn't comfortable and if
the cooking's bad. Will you?"—and
she treated him to an enchanting
touch of shyness.
Giles shot o swift glance down at
her.
"No," he said, "I don't believe I
will!" And he despised himself for
the tumultuous Sway in which big
heart hammered in his side,
For the first time sines Giles had
Retribution
Dl Redgrave
bought the car, something went side is the bathroom," pointed out
wrong with it. The righting of it ON; smart and distlec.ly modern
delayed them so long that derlatests
fell before they found a place that
attracted tbom both equally.
"Look here, my girl," said Giles
determinedly at last, "we're putting
up at the very first grub which
doesn't seem tnnpossibte."
"'very well. darling," site agreed
meekly; and at a 'wayside inn with
the queer sign. of The honest Law-
yer they halted and Giles got out
to make enquiries.
"I think it will do," lie said, re-
turning. "Come in and have a look
at our room, before deciding."
Meryl felt her heart must posi-
tively beat its' way out of her body,
She went into the inn and up the
crooked old stairs. to a bedroom
that was so large the huge double
bed looked lost in it.
"What do you think?" asked Giles
his hand 'tucked in his wife's arm.
"Just Ws you do," 'she auenered in
sweet confusion,
"The only private sitting -room we
have is next door, other
and
to
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landlady, who wore the h'ighest oBantl-
f
]reels and ;niters hair ;vas b
fully "pertned;" "You'll! find plenty
of hot water, if the pne who has it
tet
first isn't too lavish. All the wa
has to be pumped, you see, We're
not very full, sir, so 11 you like to
use this as a dressing -room, you're
welcome."
She flung open; yet another door,
and Giles nodded,
'it's all very nice,' he said in his
pleasant, easy fashion. "We ca
have dinner in, say, an hour, Mrs,
"MTs', Pertdolil," she put in briglt
ly. "My huakandfs from Corn
well. Yes, we can give you a goo
plain dinner in an hour, The ma
will be up with your luggage in
minute."
"You may have first bath," Giles
promised ,his new -made wife, "o.
the strict understanddng that your
not too extravagant with the ho
water."
"I7d leave plenty for you," she
forced 'herself to say es lightly as
he had spoken.
"Then I'll go down. for a drink,"
lie said, and left her.
Th•e case containing all Meryl
needed was brought to her in the
bedroom, while the one with Giles's
'belongings wetet into the dressing-
She Paused out.'ylda the closed
door, her fingers on the handle, and
It was, a quarter of a minute before
sue 1u,•nrumzed up eduiege W open
the door, Elven thea ,she lingem•e,i
the threshold', but not he
cause •she had auy doubt. as to h.
w eleo ne.
Giles thrust tha last of his belong
lags into the case, closed it witit •
•snap and locked it, all without tui'n-
ing his head, though he mhust have
known she was there.
"Hallo! said Meryl, a little faint
fy, from the door,
s This was strange and terrifying,
n Giles sand' nothing, and she
heli
tatingly moved, into the room. H
t threw a emelt glance round th
!room, but not at her, saw a hal
d blush, he, had overlooked, and with
n a sarp breath of impatience titre
a 1t into the ease he had to unlock.
Mer)'!, feeling in a nightmat'
s moved slowly across to the window
n exngctiug every moment to feel hi
e arm's about her, his lips on he
t
cheeks, a ,sweet dear whisper in het
ear.
She waited so blindly that for
moment she `lid not notice that th
Bentley stood; under ,the window
and that, in s,;mite of the cold Sporn
in,g, it was •opened,
"well," said Giles at last, and th
word snapped the silence like
gunshot. "The farce is played
out to the end, and there's nothing
left but to say good-bye!"
Meryl turned round stiffly as a
wooden doll, terror in her heart.
"Goodbye?" she echoed. "You
mean good-bye to the inn? I can be
ready •in two minutes if we have to
start at •orrice."
"You need not start without your
brezikfast, Have it comfortably.
I'm sure you will," said Gdlets, cross-
ing to her.
,S'urely, thought the shrinking
Meryl, this man, with face set like
iron and the implacable eyes was
not her husbands -to whom she had
given all her adoration of her pas-
sionate young heart? This was a
terrifying stranger, who for some
mysterious reason haunted her.
"I'm off," het said. "No seed for
you to hurry," he added, as she
stared, 'blankly at him,
`W'h'at d'o_yyu—mean?" asked
Meryl's stiff lips.
Giles gave a short laugh that
scared her as nothing else had done.
"'When. I tell you I was Billy
Swanage's best friend, you'll know
what I mean all right," he said
roughly, "Well'' --as, ,she still star-
ed blankly at him ---"you're not go-
ing to tell me you've never heard of
Billy Swanage? Tberybody's heard
of Billy ,Swanage," faltered Meryl.
The sound of Billy's name on her
lips did mora tlhan anything else to
break Gil•es's, self-control. In ad-
diction. to hating her, he was inward-
ly despising himself for the part he
hand played and the clash of esno•
tions. led him to lengths he had not
dreamed of reaching,
els if of its own. accord, his hand
flew up, and he, Gibes Reyelon, who
until that moment of blind fury had.
not dreamed it was in 11120 to strike
any woman, dealt his young wife so
violent a blow across her cheek that
Meryl staggered; nearly fell.
"Nothing can ever pay for half
the wrong Yon did Billy!" he grated
Out harshly. "But when. I've made it
publicly known that I married you
one day and dissented you the next,
we'l'l be as nearly even as I can
hope to 'be."
He thrust a substantial wad of
notes into the, girl's nerveless hand
and turned his back on the motion-
less Young figure, with t'he great'
scarlet mark standing out like red
ink on the white; dace.
He picked up suitcase, hat and
coat, and strode out elf the room
without another ,glance at hie wife.
Unti she ,heard Mlle sound of the
engine, MerYI stood like a girl
chiselled in stone. 'Phan, for one.
moment, she. woke to HBe.
She wheeled round to the window
and in the brief moment before her
h e:band a car glided away she flung
tad of notes auto the open car.
The platiunrsn, ring Giles,
placed on her finger1101 :twenhadty
hours earlier was' a trifle barge, and
thought at the time she did not know
10 11 spun, through the Mr with the
money,
room.
Merril dealt carefully with the
hot water, and as she went back
into •the bedroom she heard Giles
come up and go into the next room.
"Toast clear do the bathroom?"
he sang out, and it was as if trum-
pets rang in her blood.
"All clear, and lots of hot water
for you," she called back, marvel-
ling that she could speak so natural -
Her fingers shaking, she brushed
her hair until i0 Shone like silk,
falling into little curls that framed
her face.
She paused a moment to look
dubiously at the lovely dress, she
had planned,' to wear, 11 seemed a
little incongruous, that'beautiful
dress, for a belated dinner in a
quiet country inn.
She made up her mind. It was
her wedding day, and: she 'would
wear that perfect dress, even if she
and, Giles' were alone on a desert
island,
She was glad she had so decided,
for, when Giles tapped at her door
and casae in, he had changed into
dinner jacket and black tie.
He stood, framed in• the doorway—
tali and lithe and muscular, lean,
dark tate and grey eyes alight—to
Meryl a mangy of men, and.—oh,
mriraclel—her husband.
"Weil," she said below her breath,
'aren't you coming in?"'
She s=ailed; and with the smile
there came that tiny I1ft at the leillt
corner of her mouth, pointing the
way to her dimple,
Giles could never dee this without
experiencing a tightening at the
heart, Between two beats of the
heant the, knowledge came to him
that no ,matter what she had been or
done, this girl was in his heart for
ever, never to be. thrust out.
'Meryl stood) by .the dressing -table,
a lovely shadow in her chiffon
gown, that woes neither blue nor
mauve nor pink, but an entrancing
mingling of the three.
wltc'hl"' muttered Giles
shakily.
In long strides be 'crossed. the
r'oo'm and swept her into his arms,
lovely and warm and vital,
aO"Wea ust go to dinner," she said,
long, long minute,
"We must," he agreed, no more
steadily than, she bad spoken, "or it
will be spoiled. No doubt it will be
good, for our Mr. Petrdrill, from
Cornwell, shakes a wicked cocktail,
*
When, Merylawoke in the morn-
ing it was to find the ch,ernlermaid
bn, hr a telling her that
theraging gentleimane!rated' gone out an hour
earlier,
;She felt rather as it coil water
had been dashed in her face, and
when Giles was still, absent by the
time she had dressed, she began to
feel a NNW1'e frightened.
Lt was stupid, site assured herself.
For a Thousand things, might have
called Giles out uneoepeotedly.
When of last sell heard a sound In
the little dressing -room the color
flooded her face that had been very
pale, Giles ne doubt thought she
was Stihl asleep and woold not die-
tui'b her,
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The astounded Mr, Pendrill and
his wife could get no word otlt of
the girl left on their handstut at
last they found Mrs. Jo: �stpne's
address In !mer hag, and in the
middle of the attornemen i
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