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Show 'Alan, Out for a Walk, Finds Tony Alone, Longing to See Sick Jacky Telegram Serial: Tony' Her long hazel eyes came round to his. Again he felt a sensation, strange and slight, as If something struck lightly on his heart. At last the tpoke. "I do do to want In see Jacky " "Very well." he said, "then I'll take you to her." He didn't look at her. He knew what he would see in her face and, for some reason that he could not have explained, he didn't choose to be touched again by what she looked or said. Abruptly he turned. Together To-gether they walked up the back drive. He turned toward the itablei. "You'd better go and get a coat." "But I don't need" "Run along." He didn't turn hit head to see that sh obeyed. An Instant later he heard her footsteps scudding toward the house. $he took longer thsn he had expected. He had been waiting some minutes before he saw her moving swiftly through the dusk. He opened th door of th car. She flung herself onto th seat betid him. Sh had not put on a hat. Something bulged the front of her coat "What hav you got there?" "Only Woodville. He' quit clean." She looked at him timidly, at If the feared that Jacky't old toy might be taken from her. He nodded. She dropped back into silence. The hospital corridor smelt of Iodoform. The sound of footsteps echoed, magnified. An electric sign aald "Matron." At th end wat a whit door marked "Private Ward." YNorait Alaa Fleming la enaed to Hra-- Hra-- elnth Quern. Tony, her titer, la ai-i ai-i from school tax lolni put ona. evening without permission. Tony Mora her looelr little auter, Jacay. nd Hyacinth and lire. Querae are forever eteinet Tony. Thoulb Alaa Ipe bar look afur Jackie one altht whan aba la III. Tony dlsllkea bin beceue be la lined up asalnat her with her mother and Hyacinth. Ma)er Cheaealey. to wbom Hyacinth waa encacad. returne unaipectediy from Couth America. Ha ordara Hyacinth to come to bla borne. Fallows. Ha reminds bar that aha owoa blm two Ihmiaajid pmmda. for which h has site, aa security jewrle willed to Tony by bar father. Ha (Ires Hyacinth Hya-cinth a weak to ralae the money and return the ewala to Tony, or break her amassment and marry him. , CHAFTEB II Alan ' Fleming walked back croat th tutsocky grass of th park. Th day was bitterly cold. H had been over to hit own plae. Everything now wat ready for hit occupation. ' A bachelor establishment es-tablishment but not for long. In three month from now he would lead hit bride home after a month f honeymoon. Till then, though tit visit to Oaken wat nearly ended, h would meet Hyacinth a I moat vry day. He would see her, too, out hunting a he had en her th first time. For a moment there came to him th clearest picture: Hyacinth In her hard hat, her stock and th veil which showed through Its mesh all th more clearly th delicate brilliance bril-liance of her skin. "Lov at first sight"; so it had been with him. That strange beauty of hers, so flawless at that first meeting he had felt at If It pierced him. present happiness. Tonight, he remembered, re-membered, h would take her to the Lendrumi' dance. There he would display hit future bride and receive a hundred congratulation!, and there to th sound of mutlc h would hold her in hit armt. A rook cried harshly in the tall elms above him. He looked up. Across th pal grast ran a stout post-and-ralls, and there, leaning on the rail, her back to him, stood a girl. Tony. He had not seen her for three days not since he had turned her out of the dining room. He had aiked Hyacinth yesterday what had become of her young titter. She had milled, frowning a llttl. "Oh, Alan, Tony's sulking." He would hav walked on now and left her Handing there. But something In that motionless figur fig-ur ttruck him. In thit bitter cold the wore only Jacket and skirt. H crossed th grass toward her. Sh did not move. Hit footsteps sounded on th hard ground. He stood near her. He could hear her breath, uneven. "Tony."' Sh did not move. "Tony." Quietly, h repeated her nam. There was t moment's pause. At last with a llttl gesture at if after all It didn't matter, ah turned to face him. Sh had been crying. Sh wat crying now. Her face wat pinched with cold. "What It ItT" h atked gently. Alan knocked. "Com in!" said a child's Voice. He opened th door and atood said so that Tony might pass him. For a moment h remained In th passag. Where h had expected a cry of delight there wat lilence. He entered. Jacky wat titling up In bed. Her face was colorless. color-less. Her eyes seemed darker than ever. She smiled, gazing up at her sitter. "Mr. Fleming brought me, Jacky," Tony said. Jacky't eyet turned to him. Her polite glance showed aurpris. "Thank you very much. How do you do?" Sh held out a too-bony little hand. "How do you do, ihrimp?" "Quit well, thank you." "Look, Jacky, what I've brought!" Tony tugged at the breast of her big coat. "Woodville!" Traniflxed, Jacky ttared at th limp, moth-eaten bear. .Propped against Tony't hand, it sat on the bed between them. Jacky fingered the acarlet Jacket which it wore. "But he's got a new coat" "I got It I thought he'd like It." "Ooh, Tony, I'm so pleased! And Woodvllle't pleased" Jacky took the bear in her arms. Tony, seated on th bed, didn't speak. There wat no need. The silence wat on of happiness and (Coathni. a. the Following Faf) |
