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Show THE BULLETIN HOWTqSEW 4 BY TALBOT MUNDY CHAPTER XXI Continued. TAIIOT MUNDY Oh, my God. pulled out his cardcase, produced a card and cava it to one of the pal- ace servants: "Send that up to Misi Lynn Harding. Say I will be waiting outside. I win meet her near the front steps." He walked out Under the glare of the portico light he pulled out his handkerchief, raised his right arm and waved it O'Learjr's shrill whistle answered: "Order received and executed okay!" O'Leary had released the Bengali long-sho- rt, long-sho- rt doctor. CHAPTER XXD Lynn looked like a ghost in white chiffon. She turned instinctively to the right and stepped into the darkness. She stood within a few paces of the spot where, one night ago, she had bridled at Norwood's blunt comments. It seemed as if a whole lifetime had passed in the Interval. The guitar and the songs on the wall were a far-of- f memory. Norwood strode out of the darkness. "Silence!" he said. "Not a word. Nothing so easy on the nerves as saying nothing." They continued walking until they came to a moonlit lotus pond and stood together staring at the reflec tions of trees. A little animal lumped Into the water and swam. They watched the ripples spread un til they reached the marble banks. At last Norwood spoke: "Feeling better?" "I can't analyze it I suppose Fm feeling guilty." "Want some more silence?" "No. I would rather you'd say what you think." Norwood chuckled: "You remember the parrot I draw extra pay for thinking and not talking. I have only one virtue." "You say only one virtue? What afterwards." "Good. That's the style. There'll be lots of time afterwards. Well, you've refused to call the police, and you've promised not to talk back or make a scene. So I'll be damned if I'll wait any longer. Lynn, I love you." The Indian night and the Indian stars; the perfumed silence and the moonlit lotus pool all merged into over the whiskers, then run both ends through the head and neck spools. Bun one end through the two leg spools, then both through the body and one through the back spool. Twist together around the tail. NOTE: Readers who are now using Sewing Books No. 1, 2 and 3 will be happy to learn that No. 4 is ready for mailing; as well as the editions of No. 1, 2 and 3. Mrs. Spears has just made quilt block patterns for three designs selected from her favorite Early American quilts. You may have these patterns FREE with your order for four books. Price of books 10 cents each postpaid. Set of three quilt block patterns without books 10 cents. Send orders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. WNU SERVICE "Go far? I don't doubt But I have this consolation. If what you say is true, she has disgraced herself with the only gen1 WIT J tleman I have met in India." UK KyTVVTfCKWPW I. WIRE. DRSW i The Maharanee protested loyally: "His Highness my husband" A TWIST INDS AROUNOTW. COUP "Oh, kings don't count" said CO MANY readers have asked Aunty. "They're middle class now for more spool ideas after seeadays. I can't forgive kings for the way they've sold out to the politi ing the directions for spool shelves cians. I never will forgive them. in Sewing Book No. 3, that I know I'm a Democrat and I'll die in my you will love making these boots." amusing toys. "But you'll forgive Lynn?" The two spools for the doll's "Getting back at me, are you? A arms are strung together with little sarcasm, eh? Maharanee, if I cord. Start with these, then bend can get that minx Lynn to forgive the body wire over the center of me before she has had time to slan the cord. Run both ends of the CLOTHESPIN der me to Captain Norwood, I'll wire through the two body spools, think I'm lucky. I'D be a wizard then bend the wires and run them NOSE or is it a witch?" through the spools for the legs. aaatianal aafra halo fcr Coltk them?" "Or are you a little wiser than Bend in flat loops for the feet wilk LudaaW Thaw famous Yes. She always does when she's you were?" the Maharanee suggest Twist wire around the bonnet couth drape cot oaly kelp ed. angry." spool and fasten to body tightly so soothe throat. But wnaia much "How Norwood find whispered: out" "Let's the bonnet tips up at the back. aaanthol vapor which, with did you bet? Are you still scared?' "Carl, rm " Cut a face out of a fashion maga every breath, helps penetrate "You're embarrassed. So'm I. It's Moses Lafayette O'Lesry's whistle zine or draw one and paste it on food for both of us. so let's do it piped from the nearby shrubbery a the front of the bonnet spool. The few notes of a private signal: C D. dress is of two straight pieces together." It star- the bright sash and bonnet rib D. F.- -C D. F- -C took their time, strolling F.-- C. They Meattiet Caegh Drops tled Lynn. bons match. along shadowy moonlit paths toward "What was that? It sounded like the guesthouse, too interested in One end is cut off the spool for each other to notice voices until someone in hiding. Are we being the dog's head. Bend the wire Always Intending they were quite close up beneath the watched?" To be always intending to lead "Yes. the night has eyes in India. darkness of the overhanging trees. new life hut never to find time They've a saying here that even dia The trunks no longer stood in a Will? Buy to set about it, this is as if a man a That's in dark. the see row on the garden path. There was monds should put off eating and drinka light in the servants' pantry at very rough diamond informing me Since 1843 a London firm has ing and sleeping from one day and off home. he's and clear the rear, and a smell of cooking. that all's specialized in the auction of wills night to another, till he is starved Light poured through the living-roo- You go in. I'll follow you presently. made by their clients and wills in and destroyed. Tillotso. to him." to want I speak window. which the clients were the bene Norwood walked alone into the "Hush," said Norwood. "Listen. ficiaries. Those selling their own He almost walked into Rule number one is don't talk in shrubbery. wills have usually been older per the dark. Rule number two is listen Moses O'Leary. but did sons who needed "I warned you," said O'Leary, not wish to give upmoney and learn, but never tell tales." homes their The Maharanee's voice came quite "about women. By the hundred those selling the wills of their rela One's a problem. distinctly through the open window: they're all right usually been young listen. I suppose fives have wouldn't But broken-hearteyou can "If L who am who preferred a small people now new man a you'll get yourself amount in the hand to a larger forgive my nephew Rundhia " An unmistakable voice interrupt- to say yes to you and tell you you're sum later. Collier's. him a ed: "You're being silly. Don't be Solomon. But Solomon had on concubines and thousand wives, ruined sentimental You probably in So that o your pipe put that Rundhia by being sentimental At top and smoke it Am I out of a Job?" your age you ought to know better. "Where's your horse?" You should have spanked him when "Tain't a horse. I rode your he was young, and kept him short of pocket money when he was old- baby mare. She's near the gate." "When you get back to camp see er. I neglected to spank Lynn. Thaf a the trouble and I'm ashamed that she's rubbed down carefully To the mother the preparation of a palaof myself. Are you sure you know and give her a light blanket Stand table breakfast, containicg a cooked, hot, Do hear done. it see you and sure? where she is? Are you quite by whole wheat cereal of Cream of the West, Who told you she is near the lotus mez" means practically no more work, as it "Yes, sir. Captain Norwood." pond with Captain Norwood?" "Here's the key to the whiskey. takes only about five minutes of boiling "Six servants," said the Mahara nee, "and one gardener. Also the Help yourself. You've leave of to prepare Cream of the West and then Chief of Police very kindly took the absence until noon tomorrow. Turn let it simmer, this brings out all the whole trouble to phone me about it" up sober or I'll- -" flavor. And oh how the children like wheat "Is the Government broke?" "Imagine the impudence of that Ask your grocer to send you a package of it. "Here are ten rupees. But thaf s girl!" Cream of the West with your next order. "But I haven't noticed that she not Government money. It's peris impudent" gonal. Don't get into trouble with Name Aak "If she was in love with Captain it" Norwood she should have told me. seen miracles in I've Well, sir, Montana MONTANA "Do you think she knew it?" my day. I've seen you pick win asked the Maharanee. "I knew it ners. Maybe she's as reliable as late this evening. But do you think she is good looking. Here's hoping. that Lynn knew it?" I'll say a prayer for you." chairShared Happiness "Don't keep that mare standing. Hold to Bight Aunty Harding cackled woman's ladylike laugh on two Good night" We shall never enjoy real happl Hold by the right, you double "Good night sir, and here's hop notes, politely derisive: ness until it is shared. your might R. Browning. . "Knew it? Maharanee, what this ing." Moses Lafayette O'Leary strode younger generation knows la more than you and I ever will know. away into the night until the sound They're incorrigible. That girl has of his footfall eeased on the dusty more whalebone m her will than path and there was nothing more there are cents in a dollar. It isn't heard of him but the tune that ha brittle. You can't break It It's whistled: resilient" Oh. officers' wives (at puddings and plea "Yes." said the Maharanee, "this And soups ana roasts ana Jeuies, feneration has its own ideas. It But poor Tommies wives get THE END goes its own way. Lynn will go far.' ty, Lynn, unchastened Jezebel, come it I left your past history seated on a trunk on the path "Yes. Scared of you. Afraid you'd outside the guesthouse. What with think I was after your money." the mosquitoes and her temper she'll be cooking up a future unless "Carl, I haven't a cent" "All right More preliminaries. we go to her rescue." Mostly I live in a tent My servants "Carl, I'm shameless. I really are scandalous rogues, who know am. I'd zorgotten ner." nearly as much as I do about crime Did you ever have toothache? and treachery and worse." One forgets that too, afterwards." Lynn laughed: I never lived In a But this isn't afterwards. You tent and I've been kept away from don't know Aunty. Carl, I'll go to sinners. I'm a very ignorant per You mustn't come. Please, You'd better think again. her. son. you mustn't She will say really, hadn't you?" I don't want you to hear. that things "No. I've finished thinking about not true but she'll say They're It's how But about your that you? last chance. Lynn, you're on the them." 'Are you sure?" edge of the abyss of matrimony. You mean, am I sure they're Any questions?" "Millions of questions! Billions I I not true?" 1 mean, are you sure she'll say don't even know you. I'll ask them That" s marvelous! what luxury! I was scared stiff." I- t"You? Scared?" At the foot of tht ttalrs, Norwood cJ? Ruth Wyclh Spears Aunty coughed is it?" "I never use double meanings." "Are you telling the truth?" "Yes." "Good. Then please say what you think of me, straight without any double meanings or reservations. Let's get that over with." "Very well, Lynn. But are you quite sure you won't be belligerent about it? I didn't bring you out here . Lynn looked like a ghost in to start a fight" chiffon. white time he had It wasn't the first called her Lynn, but she noticed it a consciousness of love one moWhen Rundhia first called her Lynn ment of eternity that swept away she actually hadn't noticed it the past one moment of unselfcon-sciou- s '1 never am belligerent" she anmystery in which the lover swered. and the loved were one and all "No? What a pity. Of course, I life was their realm, all values were don't expect to be shot but I don't In true perspective. Love was reaL even want to make you really an- Everything else was illusion and ungry. You're a bit angry now, aren't real Until gradually, even in Carl Norwood's arms, Lynn's awareness you?" "Yes, but with myself. I'm not of earth resumed its spell and sha angry with you. Go ahead, punish looked away at their reflections in me. I'll take it Say what you the moonlit lotus pond. think." "Look. CarL See us! Look." "Do you promise you won't hit Then he spoke "Shadows." back, or make a scene, or accuse strangely: "Shadows cf reflections me of hidden motives?" that reflect what? You and I are "Captain Norwood, kindly go shadows. We move in response to head and tell me. I've treated you something else. What Is It?" very badly and you're entitled to "Carl are you real? Is that you revenae. I will listen. And I won't talking?" answer back." "I suspect it's the real me talking "Don't promise." to the real you. Lynn, rm steeped In"Say what you think." she in eastern thought Life's good. sisted. We're growing getting wiser grad "I think the same now that I did ually. That's why I spared Runwhen I first saw you." dhia He'd have been hanged if I "What is it?" hadn't done what I did. Now he'll "Perhaps I'm not being quite ac- get some money from the Mahacurate. It wasn't until that aston- ranee and live in Europe." ishing picnic at the palace that I " Lynn hesitated. Carl "But I to mind you. marry made up my Perhaps I shouldn't say it" fell in love with you at first sight, "All right ril say it for you. He'll without guessing who you were, to Europe and do It again. And go Maharathe with when I saw you of women won't have sense blots nee in the carriage. When I saw to stand him off until he's enough mornthe in horseback early you on them and sneered and gone." ruined ing, it was all over as far as I'm "Yes. I was thinking of that It concerned nothing further to argue a mean thought" about I've committed myself to was "Kit It BMMl't " the hilt How about you?" "Th bit 1 thrill rhi it It area I Lynn caught her breath. "I I mean, carl, I believe you because never dreamt of it!" disbelieve you. not for any can't And you're "I know you didn't reason. It seems Impossible. other us not dreaming now. We're both of stone-colsober and wide awake." How can such a man as you are, as you think, pos "Do you always make love like with such thoughts love me? I believe I deliberatesibly this." "I don't even know the first rules ly tempted Rundhia. The Maha (vf the game. I'm a chronic bache- ranee" Norwood chuckled. "All right I'll lor, suddenly converted." say that for you, too. She Mid he "But Captain Norwood" fool if "The only girl I ever fell in love really loved you. He'd be a The is a he trouble is, he didn't with calls me Carl or else calls the fooL So It won't last Not that it police." any difference." "But" Lynn laughed "Are there makes "But if I've made him wretcheany police." d-" "Try. Shout for them. An Indian "Thaf s his business. Each of us the as sky of full as is eyes night for his own mistakes." pays is of stars." "But that was my mistake.' "But I wouldn't know what to say "Your end of it was yours. But to the Mlice. I'd better call you you paid cash. Rundhia doesn't He Carl." in"And now to use one of your lets the bill run at compound mistakes. makes with terest Everybody over nhraiea. let's let this I'm a nauDer. I've four hundred Nobody's worth a damn who hasn't 'em." pounds a year and an Engineer Cap made "Bad ones?" tain's nav." "The worse the better. The rule "Carl I hope you don't think I'm wHhv. I haven't a cent in is, learn and don't repeat On that condition there's no aftermath. You the world. I've been disinherited ictual pay once and that's a!L" "You have? Is that r "Carl, do you mean that a perfact?" "Yes. 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