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Show TELEGRAM SERIAL: TONY' peaceful world as If no other Jested. Je-sted. ' ' She glanced at Jacky' untouched un-touched iupper. That looks a bit dull. But see what -I've got for you." She tugged at her pocket "I've been carrying It about line luncheon." She opened a piece of paper and laid a mince pie, gold-brown, gold-brown, on Jacky'a plate. "Oh, Tony!" Jacky gazed at It sparkling.- A' moment later aha looked up at her aiatar and rather auddenly, Tony aw, that park I had died. "You won't be eroea If I eay something, will you?" Tony felt a pang. "Silly llttl goose. Am I often cross?" v (Ooatlaoe Steal Piecedla Pa.) lng entered. She paused then, gazing gaz-ing down on the group below; on Major Cheaveley quit old, ha seemed to her, aged about 45, large and burly; and on Alan Fleming, lean and as talL There were murmured Introduction Introduc-tion and, "Alan la my future son-in-law," Mrs. Quern said. She laughed. Hyacinth said nothing. Th two men exchanged glances. Tony turned and mounted tha stain. She entered the schoolroom. Jacky waa aeated at the table, her chin on her hand, frowning over a book. Sh turned quickly. "Oh, there you are! Did they keep you downatalr?" Her cheek were flushed and her eyea bright "It waa rather difficult to get away." Tony didn't explain further. fur-ther. She shut the door, and it eemed to her then that aha and Jacky were shut into their own "No, no." Jack aelaed a fold of Tony' skirt "You never are. I don't know why I said that" But 1 Tony knew, and knew, too, what had made Jacky a little timid even of her. Jacky had never been phye-ically phye-ically bullied, but month after month, year after year, aha had lived a disregarded Ufa; and that life, temporarily or permanently, had aet It mark on her. "Would you mind awfully," aha asked, "if I didn't eat the pie now? I don't feel very hungry." "Do you feel aick, darling?" "Well, I almost do. But I'll be all right If I needn't have supper. Could I have th pie for breakfast?" break-fast?" "Perhaps But anyway Til put you atralght to bed ndw. Your paw are rather hot." Tony' brow puckered puck-ered anxiously. "You mut Mop In bed tomorrow If you aren't quite well," aha aaid. And then, a Jacky'a face fell, "It'a all right, darling. I'll etay with you all day. I'll read to you and we'll play anakea and ladders anything you like. It'll be fun." "Hurrah!" Jacky began to dance. Then a abruptly th (topped. But Tony was aearchlng now la tha old brown-painted corner cupboard. cup-board. She didn't notice the tudden quiet. "I'm not going to be 111." Jacky aid after a moment. "But If I was, 1 wouldn't mind a bit with you here. Tony. I'd rather Ilka It you know." Tony laughed. "What you Ilka la to be apoilt"-Thu h hid the anxiety In her heart -l Know l do. "Wall, darling,' Tony turned, bottle and glass In hand, "you must have some medicine any way." "Oh! Ia It natyr "No. If only what old Nanny used to give us." Tony looked at the label, "ft aaya, Thl elegant preparation'" "Oh, I don't mind that kind." Jacky watched at, carefully, Tony poured. She took the wine glass. Gravely sh regarded her sister over tha rim. "I'm drinking to your happlne, Tony. And confusion confu-sion and misery to sll your en-am en-am lee partie'ly Mr. Fleming." "Thank you, darling," Tony aaid. To Be Continued Friday Visits on Coast Mra. Vesta Peeblea, 145 Third East treet, Is visiting In Glendale, Cel., with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mra. Wayne Rock. |