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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER The Sleeping Lady The Story of a Youthful Romance That Was Blocked by the War, but That Refused to Die in Spite of the Separation of the Years. talk and move then more singing. Voices said good night once, and steps went off toward the steep track of the cove. Robert bent down and began to writ on the sand, lastly, with his left hand. Nan turned to look at him. " Do you want to go home? " Robert asked ber, lifting his head a little. " No," said Nan. " It's lovely hare." May I stay and talk to you? " "I'd like you to." Silence fell Robert went on writing. " What have you written there? " Nan went on. " O, the name of our rock, that's all the Sleeping Lady." " I wonder how long she's been asleep? " he said. " Let's go out and ask hart " said Nan quickly. " Now? " ha said, and his heart pounded With pleasure. WAS too hot, anyway, and serving strairht Into the euneet was absurd. wished the 1017 game wu over. hardly cared about winning any more. Still, on must put op a light These Grevils simply most not be allowed to walk over one at everything. Extraordinarily food at games, though. As he walked to the bark line hs looked toward where they sat and triad to smile 1b their easy way. But Dicky was shouting some family Joke to young Felix, and John wasn't looking. Neither was Kan. She was staring out to sea. Robert picked up the tennis balls and prepared to lick young Felix. This was tbs final match In a hastily IT arranged tournament. The Q revile and the handful of other young people who were spending the summer in this remote Cornlsb Tillage had been the only entrants. Felix, though only some sort of cousin of the other three, was a Grevfl, too, and the most attractive of them all, probably, except Man. Bar face was thinner than Felix's, and mora dreamy. She was Robert's own age seventeen. Felix was only sixteen. This game might decide the sat. Robert gave it his fun attention and lost. shoot went op and they shook hands at the net Robert smiled hard. He couldn't really think why h had wanted so very much to win. Anyhow, it was all over. Wen played, young Felix! The farmhouse in which the Orevlls wars spending the summer looked steeply over a green cove of the sea. It was easy to scramble down through rocks and heather to the strand below. "list's have supper down there tonight," said Felix, "after our swim." Every on dashed Into the whit farmhouse. Soon, with baskets and bottles and swimming kit. the Orevlls and Robert sad the rest were clambering down to the cove. Robert could swim as well as any Grevil and the feel of the sea about him always scattered some of his shyness. This evening he and Nan had their usual race to the Sleeping Lady, a great rack that jutted up out of the sea beyond the ear. As usual ha beat her, and as hs hauled her up be laughed boastfully. " You're the best swimmer In your family, and I always beat yon," he said. " Funny thing." said Nan. " none of the ethers have aver swum out here, have they?" " No," said Robert. "But they could easily. It seems to be Just our swim." " It's our rock." Nan robbed a bit of It genUy with her hand. She seemed to be repeating Robert's last words to herself. Presently she looked .up and smiled at him. " Hew brown aad dark you are: " she said. " How brown and fair you are! " Tea, we're a monotonous family. Ws all turn out the same color always. Been like os that I often for centuries. going wish I war dark Ilk you." " Hot! " said Robart. " You're a f rightfully good looking crowd. " Hs wanted to ten her ss she sat there, dripping wet, tn the tht sunset, her beauty was shining for him with a light that' would never go out. But the other was all that he said. " Do yen really think us good looking? " Nan asked lastly. Hs nodded. " I think you are. you know," she went n. The bar shook his bead In pleased protest. "O, yes, I do. Better looking than any of as except Felix, perhaps." "Ah, Fettr. of course. He Is frightfully line. Nt that I think him the best looking Orevil" "I suppose you think that have to say that to me, as I'm the nly woman tn the tribe." " Never mud what I think I have to say." But Faux Is admittedly the flower of the family." Robert looked away toward where the best looking Orevil was poising for another dive. " He does everything so well," be said admiringly. "Yes, doesn't he?" Nan's eyes followed Roberts. "I'm glad you like him," she " I had an idea you didn't, much." added. " I don't ss '.low I could taU to like him." " u. that's good. It would be hateful If a didn't like Felix tremendously." Robert fait that he had' said enough for honor. " Toull admit," he ventured, " that you do your best to spoil him." Nan laughed softly. "That's true," she said. " It's a bad habit that the entire family has picked op somewhere." " You've got tt quite as badly as any one." " expect so. We always give la to Felix about everything." " He's vary tacky." Naa laughed again. "He's a dear." It was getting chilly on the rock. Robert shivered and stood up. Felix was swimming toward them " I'm coming over to tbs Sleeping Lady," he sang oat. " No! " shouted Robert, with peculiar " We're getting cold. I'U race you to the corner rock." And be dived in. Felix Come on. Nan! " he beaded that way, too. called out. as hs sped away. Nan shook herself out of a drum and followed him. While they sat at supper on the strand the sun slipped under the sea and the tide began to go out. Some one was singing now.- - Dicky's clear voice it was. and some of those other girls were Joining In. That must be John strum mlng a guitar. Robert turned his head. No. it was Faux. " The fellow can do everything," thought Robert, not without bitter Mas. To bis rtsaae eyes the group of white tana they were mostly in tennis things took on the unreality of a dream. Only Nan's gold head shone with a dear, fa brightness. ' God: " said Robert to himself. " I simply art not stare at her so much." He lay sa the sand and closed his eves. He test tired all of a sodden. The singing want on fa heard people Van smiled, )' j 1 "Yes!" and Nan Jumped off her rock. They ran together to the cluster of old boats in the corner of the strand, and began to haul one of them down to the tide. "It most be lovely oat there at night," said Nan. "Marvelous," said Robert, ankle deep in the tide. Thar was a shout from up the half-wa- y " Nan! Nan!" It was Felix. His imperious young vole was unmistakable. Nan shouted back to him at one. " Here" "Want to com up to the Cromlech? " Tonight? " "Well, I'm going now." This in a rather hart Che old pain of love. The vole of the quiet sea did not disturb them, and the star, as they rose, shed their light gently on th two young heads. Nan leaned ber face against Robert's shoulder. His hand and his mouth bar shining head. " I love you! " he said. The girl laid har hand very gently across his mouth. " We're too young," she said In a alow sad voice. " It's no good beginning to lor so soon." "What has age to do with tt?" be cried. " I love you! There can never be any one again anything like this!" She looked up at him. "Perhaps you're right," she said. " Psrhaps there never will And She turned be anything Uk this." away and. leaning against him, stared at the horlson. A cold wind touched her from there, maybe, or perhaps some ghost of prophecy came to great her where she stood on the threshold of grown-u- p Ufa, because suddenly ah slipped from the fold of Robert's arms and away from the lor of his murmuring voice She bowed her head on the nek and broke into wild sobbing. Robert was with har In a stride. Bewil dered and vary tender, he took her hands and tried to comfort he ss if she were a car-ease- d baby. " IH take you home," said Robert. " Say good night to the Sleeping Lady." And he I tone. know, " but "O. dont bother. I nan go aloncThought ron kept your prom " Too know do. "Course, . I'U come. I Walt Felix." a In a few month he was In training, and before ho was nineteen h know a weary lot about th trenches In Francs. Tbs pain of that last summer of his boyhood grew easy', of course, and big thoughts of Nan dimmed, as they had to. Adventuree and worries and Interests crowded on him, the war dominating everything. Quickly It changed the perhaps too gravs youngster into s But It grave and deep hearted man. showed him, too, by fits and starts, a way of gayety and recklessness, and taught him to be spendthrift of those emotions that had flm been given to Nan. And as the hurrying years blurred her memory, It was only In moments of strong feeling that her face returned to him clearly. When tt came be could always hear har saying, " Psrhaps you're right; perhaps there never will be anything like this." And bis spirit would call out to har eagerly that so far, indeed, there had not been. Oddly enough in those years of strange chances he never met either of her brothers, or Felix. They all seemed to be In France he often beard of them, and was sometimes surprised to notice that their surname could still disturb him. When ha learned that John had been killed, he was wrung with distress. He could not bear to think of Nan'i grief. He wanted to write 4 her, but there seemed no way of an address. He was in the front finding line then, and preoccupied. by kate obrien and, from har willing, saemsd even older, just as he, la his ways of thjight, must seem older. Soon he was moved to Japan. While out there ha saw an advertisement of Nan'i first novel. He sent for It at once, and was s hissed by its power and beauty. In his thirtieth year he was summoned te London, and there waa a rumor la th sir As that this meant startling advancement his taxi bore him, excited after years of exile, through drenched London streets, hs oaught almself wondering where Nan Uved. He bit bis Up In exasperation. Three nights after his return be was dining at bis ctab with Charles Redland. whom he had known in France, and who waa now a novelist "What are you doing tonight. Fordsr?" "Haven't thought about It" " Like to com round to Nan Qrevtl's Bat with me? She told me once that you knew each other when you war children." "I'd like to oaU on har with you, if I may," said Robart He lifted hi win glass, and noticed that his hand waa shaking aver so little. Redland waa already talking of other things. Felix was dining with Naa In har flat Family ties and a great affection had kept these two la doss touch through the yean. Their grief tor John aad Dicky had mad them still mora Important la each other's eyes. Felix was almost bettor looking now than he bad been as a boy. To Nan, though he was twenty-nine- , only a year younger than she, he would always be "young Felix," some one to spoil, some one to give way to. John and Dicky, who had bean his slaves, war gone, and the years wer scattering th older folk. Nan's eyes war kind aad interested as shs pondered the man opposite her. She wag thinking how easy tt bad always been to give him his own way. Then he looked up aad smiled at oar, a saw kind of smile that seemed to plead desperately. la th study a few minutes later Felix asked har to marry him. He made this request in what waa as unprecedented way for him. Usually be took one's consent to his desires for granted, but bow he seemed terribly afraid of a denial Childishly he tumbled oat th long tale of his lore and his hopes, giving her no chance to Interrupt him, aa If afraid of what aha might gay. Naa looked at his anxious eyes and burncheeks and found them very touching. ing -He's only a baby," aha thought " underneath everything only a baby." Bator ho paused aha found time, too, as one does often at such moments, to talc a clear look backward over bar Ufa. Ia all Its vivid stretch she could see no stronger claim oa her than Faux had. And looking forward there sismad no hope that ah could not share with him. So whan his voice oeased she looked into his eyas, that war so young now in their anxiety, aad told aim ah would marry him. It waa not pofhia to refuse htm anything. The fear taU from his face, and the old conquering radiance returned. He took her In his arms, and she lifted ber face tor his " You promised you'd come whenever I went." " Yes, th anxieties of the war. f 30, 1928. minute, "Be quick, then" earn the mollified answer. Robert was standing quite still by th boat, th tide lapping his ankles. His feet felt cold now tn their squelehy shoes. Naa looked at him pleadingly, and he gave her . a flickering mile. "I'm awfully sorry," she said, "but I'd promised Felix " ages ago " Of course. Do sent matter a bit, honestly." Silence. Nan did not move, "Would would Uk TOO to coma, too?" she suggested It waa not in Nan to haggle Or grudge And to her great affection for Felix were added now a tender pleasure tn discovering that he eared so much for her in giving. timidly. " O, no." Robert was almost startled. " I'U stay here. I I think IT! row about a bit until I feel sleepy." Nan stood looking aad Just awakening she had taken Robert's first love and given him hers. The simple (act was that the feeling that had flamed between them was too great to be borne by the Tory young. The sympathy had beta so clear th tenderness so acute that their revelation had frightened Naa since tt brought with It as it always does, a glimpse of pain and danger and aa assurance that the world Is a difficult place la which to carry such a load. For aO this she had cried en the rock. And the experience, striking too bard at har and at Robert had. even whUe they wer forgetting It sunk down aad become a part of each personality. So It happened to Naa that whenever the lev of a man had come close home to ber, had become exacting, a dim memory that smeUed of the sea would creep between her and warm reality; Robert's face, generally forgotten, would grow clear aad because it was only a ghost would not vanish at one when sba closed har ayes. Its Strang per aistence In these moments gave her, however much she laughed at herself, a feeling of Is fidelity to other people, and shs had been compelled to admit that until shs could banish bar ghost, tt would be a Kind of dishonesty to play at loving. Now she waa thirty aad weary of loneliness. Impatient of an old sentimentality, she had mad up har mind to ignore it So tonight she had said yes when Felix, for whom she dared so much, naked her to marry him. And then, at bait-panine, Robart had walked into the room. Watching his face, hearing his voice, Nan understood that In all the sesantlsls hs had changed not at all tram the grave and sensitive boy she bad known. This discovery gave bar great Joy. And under th Joy wer crowding a swirl of feelings that made She turned her eyes thought impossible. to Felix, shs made up her mind to listen to It waa no use. Only Redland but Charles one fact stood steady now that Robert had come back. Past it to its Implications, she did not' trouble to took. Felix was talking to Robert " You're making ma remember things. Fordsr," he was saying. ''It was an awfully good summer, that last one before the war. wasn't tt? " Robart agreed. " You wer a great swimmer," Felix went on. " Faster than any of us." Hs turned to Naa, seeking her help In his amused reminiscences. " There was a rock, wasn't there, that you and Forder used to race to every verting? " "Tea," said Nan. "Tbs Sleeping Lady." " And than It ail broke up suddenly, with the war news." " Tas," said Robart " I waa in Penzance. When I came back you were aU gone away." Nan leaned forward than, and spoke aa If giving a message that ah wanted to deliver long ago. "We were simply rushed to town at an hour's notice, by the grownups," shs said, "We hated not seeing you to say good by. I wrote to the cottage from London about five days later." Robart smiled at her gratefully. "We baft two days after you," be said. Never went near the place again. Redland was getting tired of reminiscences In which he had no share. " I'm afraid I must be going, Forder. It's getting on tor eleven." Robert stood a p. Redland said good night to Nan. and then engaged Felix In some battle of wits. Robert spoke to Nan. "I wonder tf you could lunch with m tomorrow? " Nan's eyes were troubled. "I'm sorry." she said haltingly, " I promised Felix." Aa echo rang in their hearts. "O, well," said Robert "another time, perhaps." "Another time," He went away then with Redland. Felix lingered to say good night But Naa was tired now, aad very soon he left, too, feeling unhappy for once la his light hearted life, far more unhappy then a newly accepted lover ought to feel Naa tat by the fire for a long time. Exaltation had given place la her to sadness. Shs loved Robart, Robart "10 bad always held har back from loving any on else. After thirteen years ha had come back. It be had com today at six o'clock it would have been all right but ha had t com at nine, foolish fellow, and by then shs had promised to marry Felix. She did not know that Robert wanted to marry her, probably he was married already. But whether he cared Or not was not th point What mattered was that shs had made up her mind to Ignore and bury this Robert business and, that being settled, to marry Felix. She had felt that she must become more than a match for a ghost, once she gave her mind to coping with one. But the man who had come back to her tonight was no ghost and at the first masting with him all her defenses had fallen. Coldly now aad without exaggeration ah told herself that there could 'be no safety tor her, and no honesty, In marriage with Felix. And her tonight aba bad said that she loved him, that shs would marry him. She did not sleep. IT is rinses had followed exaltation, and torment now foUowed both. The hours crept back to daylight When Felix rang up at breakfast time, shs told her maid to aay that she waa stiU asleep. Suddenly, when the sua flashed into the room, she wrote a letter. "Dear Faux: I gave you a promise last night which I should not have given, be-- " cause I cannot keep it I have always kept my promises to you, but I cannot marry you, berauee I do not love you enough for that I failed you last night when I said that I did, but I should be falling you hopelessly tf I were ever to say It again. One day I shall try to explain this muddle, if you want me to bat not now. " Forgive me sometime, and do not try to sa m Just yet Tours, Nan." Shs sent this by express messenger and for th rest of the daytavnted 'hing- - to do, She did not go out Rain cam rattling against to windows ia the dusk, and at the sound of It her spurious energy fail away. She left ber lamp and her desk and stood between the curtain a, staring eat at dripping plan trees. She did not bear the door bell but ah heard the study does open and shut Sao turned around. Robert was there. Ha stretched a band to her. Sh moved away from the window, and th lamplight fU on her bright hair. "I bad to coma again." be said. " I know," shs answered, and put har hand in his. Desolation had fled now, cot Into the rain, and last night's foolish Joy was filling the and a surprised relief that the problem of love should hare solved Itself la this simple After all, it would be way In the end. JmW T1owwwPaPfc ml j mbJHmmmm KSMKatALSliimmmmamfKM sweat enough to spend th rest of one's r life spoiling Felix. Ail these feelings rose In Nan's spirit at him. when Felix kissed her. It says something, " Hadn't you better there, for the man's perceptlvenesa that hurry? " said Robert. presently, when his arms loosened shout " You do not want to her, he looked down Into her eyes with a climb to the Cromhalf veiled sadness tn his own, aad said: lech?" "What war you thinking of whan I "Not specially " kissed you?" She pointed to It on "I was thinking of you," said Nan. But th low bin above th Felix's eyes still searched hers. farmhouse. " It's Just " M only? Truly. Nan?" an easy walk really "No; not you only." not a climb. Hardly Felix coaxed her. His ayes were anxious. takes an boor." "TaU me. No secrets tonight" That's good. Won't "It's too silly to be a secret I was be much of an effort thinking of the first man who kissed me." "No." She turned Felix laughed with relief. He had reed to go, aad Robart somewhere that that la the sort of thing heard bar speak woman, do. Dear Uttle Naa! Ha kissed softly as shs moved her hair. away. "I'm sorry," nine the ben rang, At about half-paaha said, "hot I and Char lea Redland and Robert were shown promised Felix." into Nan's study. While the usual prelimGod!" teid Robert to himself, "I simply must not stare et her so much." Robert lumped into inary things ware being said. Robert had the boat and pulled time to realise that thirteen years had not out to sea. Ha felt cold, and rowed violently helped her Into his boat Towing ham beThe armistice set him free when he was dimmed a beauty which be had sometimes to warm himself. He turned his boat wearily hind he rowed quickly, looking at Nan nearly twenty two, to return to personal hoped was only th myth of his sentimenat last toward th Sleeping Lady and moored as often ambitions. Family tradition had destined they traveled, and answering her tality. on the seaward aide. He In smile. back boat wistful bis him from bis birth for th diplomatic servlay It seemed quite right too, that Felix and triad to fight his trouble. ice, and his belated years at Oxford were At the farmhouse gat they said good should be there. A queer pang. Has despair, After what must have bean a long time he very tun and promising. Hs was happy night. seised Robert when he looked at the other realised that lying still had made him Icily at this time, ha spit of th griefs and gaps "I'U sa you tomorrow," he murmured. man. That too, was familiar part of the cold again. Hs sat war th sa But in had he turned to go ah was with him made, and spits of the sip and stared about him. feeUng of being with Nan. But one most "I'd better go home," be muttered to himgravity tt had imposed on him. He made again. She laid har mouth on his. collect one's thoughts. People ware talking. " Good night. O. good self new did but he not the many meet friends, He Joined In, but in spite of this the connight" she said, and There was the splash of an oar. It soundOravUs. Hs had thought that perhaps on bar vole was full of tears. But before ha versation did not seem to thrive, Redland ed quite near. Then be beard it again on or other of them might turn up at Oxford, could open bis arms, shs was gone Uk waa amusing and Felix charmingly so. the other side of the rock. Now It was but shortly after he left the army he heard ghost Robert had learned to be an easy and fluent with a weary pang that Dicky, the youngcoming nearer round the rock. Robert Robert had to drive bis mother to Pen person, and triad to excreta those accomstood up as the bow of a boat swung round est of th am all. had been killed flying over sane the next day, and did not see th plishments now. But Naa waa idiotic. She to the west of the Orevlls before he started. It happened to be the German Unas two days before th an the time tn aa attitdoe of polite Sleeping Lady. There sat was a girl rowing It aha was alone. Robert armistice. And later he learned that Felix, the day of August, 1114, on which England ber eyes rested on people when attention, recognised Nan's shining head. who was making the army his career, was e declared war on Germany. Whan la spoke, sad sometimes her head inclined they " Hello' " he said, and his in the east with his regiment Mrs. Forder. who was a person of voice shook. gently, as if in agreement But when one She turned and smiled at him then About Nan hs never inquired and never many apprehensions, found It necessary to pulled paused for an answer, aha either said someher boat in near his. Ha Jumped on to th In heard anything. Hs waa not sura that ha order th mora stay there for th night. thing so Inconsequential as almost to be lower ledga of th rock and waited to moor to in to with now. wanted touch bar husband Ha could still meet ber easily keep stupid, r the forgot to say anything at all. her. Nan shipped her oars and stood up. look back with a attiring of pain to that and with news, by wire and telephone She simply was not attending. " Why aid you come out? " said Robert. r Robert love. first th of Nan So had he been accepted this, far Inevitability -right Redland liked to be listening, too, and felt and sent a postcard to Nan. Th next day Thought you might be her," she an bad found nothing like it He was afraid Irritated. It was a strange display in Naa. swered softly, and her voice had a quiver In did Mrs. of not lessen Forder'a or what a to do nervousness, casual its meeting might who knew both how to talk aad bow to it. too. -- 1 saw your boat hadn't come sheltered memory. Now and then, whan help her to decide on what shs would do listen. Redland decided that bar young back." next. Bhe clang to Robert for comfort us women's beauty pleased and lured him, he cousin, Felix, waa responaibi. far bar stats He held out bis hands to Nan, and she her bewilderment and kept him for three was brought op sharp, to wonder, in some of mind. This Idea a mined him, and ha Jumped on to the ledge of rock beside him nights tn Pensanc before shs concluded aha dismay, if that ghostly voice and face were settled down la his role of novelist to study "Did yon go up to the Cromlech?" be had better return to th cottage, pack up. always going to Intrude, aad spoil things, Naa. asked. and hurry to town. Har son drove har out to the end. He teamed to laugh at this He probably mad a bad Job of tt H She nodded. of Pensance at an alarming speed. but It persisted. anxiety, started from the wrong premise. " it? When Robert farmdown went to the "Enjoy He spent all his vacations abroad at thai' When Nan bad turned Felix's question! " No--o Felix did, I think. " house that afternoon it was locked and time, acquiring foreign tongues, for which away from th man who had first kissed " Why didn't be had an aptitude. empty- A fisherman who had been a friend you?" And when he cam " I I was her, she bad been attending something not afraid I had hurt you," sba of Felix came by. Robert questioned him. down from Oxford aad entered th service, more from Felix than from linalt For said. Tss, they had an gone off In a great harry he waa sent almost at one to Constanyears bow she had defended this bidden "Than hurting m matters'" worried about this war business yesterday tinople. " Yea." ah answered in a thing from her own curiosity and ber own Terrible. Robert nodded curtly aad strode Whisper. one th a pages of Cutting lacy monthly corn. Her Mt. la th thirteen years since "Nan." he sobbed. "O. Nan!" And h sway. afternoon when he had been about a year that summer in Cornwall, bad been vivid stared into har eye. He had lost Naa. That was clear. This he came upon a short story signed abroad, and more or leas fortunate. There had been She gave him her two hands. " Nan Orevil." He read It at one boose was not the OravUs own; they had eagerly, sorrows In It and disappointments; but Joy, " Let me kins you! " he only taken It for this on summer. Just then laid the paper on his knee aad stared whispered. too, aad fair stretches of contentment and She cam nearer, to him and lifted up her ss his mother bad taken the cottage. They out dreamily over th Bosphoru. His lovely face. His arms want round ber and lived fat Shropshire eomewhere, he thought, fastidiousness found nothing to wine at Love bad been riven her to rood and la town but he hadn't a vestige of an they kissed. tn the story, aad everything to praise. and, as she grew older, sa wanted In her It was the first demand that either of Aad shs had Mt no meesavg at "So she's going to writ," he said, for turn also to love. More than once she had oa their young and shy the cottage. an the marks of promise were on this bit corns near caring tor people aa fully as she Afraid of th new force that was Robert flung himself down on th heathof work. knew shs could care, bat hi the end ber them, they dung toarether. as if. ery crest of th cove, tad stared at the Th finding of th story gave him great spirit had always shied from suireader. Oa apart. It would have frightened them stil Sleeping Lady. Shs lay tranquil tn th sunpleasure. Tbs authentic Naa ebons oat part of har knew the reason at this fi.'n mora They bad no words for what they light. Just as aha had lain on afl those afterfrom It Her quickness, ber shyness, her and was afraid of It; but th Nan who faced were feeling they were too young for that never found "I noons when Naa and he had sworn to her. like tt. Naa," restraint, ber lov of other people wars all the world refused to look that way. It " Neither did L" anything M SSSBI find BBj only :n an said. He drove his mother to town next mornthere, firmly knit lata this sophisticated too tar she back, too other's thought Lore dseconded on them, as tt had desk ing, and. as the car climbed the hUl, he did aad balanced writing. It was this sophistisentimental on their rock they shed their childhood, aad UUrtsea years before. But they ware man not look back to the Steeping Lady. cation that made him realise with a shock, tt But was net unreal conof to Something helped each other aad woman now, ready for tt. and unafraid. boar, for th first Urn. he was lost, Uk all his world, kt that Naa, Uk hlxa, was twenty seven now. sequence had happened to Naa when young ICcsrrlrai: 1U: By Cats ffMsaJ halt-pas- Pan-aanc- i , |