Show - !k ) MR Itrtl ROSCOMBE REMEMBERED 1 I t OFF V7 l''411' 1 (11 t '' lk k PAYS 1r ) ' SHOT TIIAT THAT SOMETIMES IT IS TIIE LONG 0411117W - 0000 'di ir -- 01) (t tv 10- 0- eit - K-- " lo - t- '! - I 1 ( -- 044 private The girl sat quite still with her back to him But suddenly she swung round ion the stool and said urgently "I want to be quite sure — he's not going to have your job is he?" He saw the tenseness on her bit and how ' - f —w—k--- her 500' opg3 t k: were very eyes the meaning bright She had unders- of his lack of response and now she had given up hope and wanted to face the facts She looked brave and young and he wished that he could disappear through the tood 114111):11 - z II - '4":44V0 1 ' '0 Am snakes you - wor 4 0 - was looking hopeful to the heart P 1 Cr (13 - i s b' 1Ir or (111 0 s‘1 'LA' - A° i 4 rt et-- - MIIP—--1- C '4N ‘ N4" N 4 -- lit I tx (fi ' -- '' ) Illbr A: t1444i--t- - itgica t '1 0-0- I f 4 II 1 tea IP 0 ar '''- 0 4it ‘tmiimmiii 4 s" 'e -- A 1 A ' made hi deci- felt quite overwhelmed with relief He smiled at her "Anyway you shouldn't Af tI ' and k dr ‘ "7 1HIIIIIIIIII41111111111N: 4 at No sooman thought than he 111J71 I he influenced? 11 to ' - again and he was touched thought Well why shouldn't I be Background does count for some-thThese two are worth Then r 1 think that?" he said and at once was angry with himself for the words had encouraged her Ile saw guiltily that she N 1441004"1‘"" ask me!" "Oh I know!" she exclaimed and then she was talking quickly as if it were the only way she could stop herself from bursting with excitement "I'm sorry I know I shouldn't have but you see Mr Roacombe he had a chance to go in with a friend in a photographic He loves doing that sort of thing but agency of course he wouldn't take the risk unless he was sure he wasn't to be promoted so I just " had to ask Mr Roscombe said "That's what he likes doing?" "Oh yes he's terribly interested — " She stopped short and then added rather anxiously "Of course it's only a hobby I oughtn't to have mentioned it Please forgive me Mr Roacombe It's just that if he knew " For certain about the job There was a moment's silence and as she gazed at him he saw the hope flicker and go out He wasn't I cleared often his throat he changed uncomfortably It his mind twice in so many minutes "All right I'll tell him You've been frank with me my dear and I'll be the same with T him" "Oh" she said in a small voice But she puzzled as well as downcast v was sx 0 1000fr z success of something he wanted to do Anyhow he was going to have the chance You could put it another way Mr Roecombe thought You could say that one man's A NANCY WAITED IN DREAD FOR MR "Only about ten wrong notes I'm terribly out of practice" "You shouldn't be if you can play like that — " "She ought to have been a professional" ROSCOMBE'S INEVITABLE ANSWER Charles broke in "She was at the Royal Academy and then she married me and threw it in She just wouldn't go on with it and here she is saddled with me and the kids — " And that's just how I like it" Nancy MR RC6COMBE sipped his coffee She I id n't miss much But Charles was pretty smart too fooling him all this time into thinking he liked his work at the office A man who could do that was all the more likely to make a 0 exclaimed "Why all the music in the world isn't worth — oh listen they're off again — " "I'll go" Charles said Mr Rosoombe felt as if he had been eavesdropping on something that was precious and photographic ique silver agency was another man's ant- They heard him coming downstairs and Mr Roscornbe saw her straighten up She'd pulled het self together "Oh well" she smiled ruefully dace the music" Mr Rosoornbe found it easy to smile back He knew that they would never receive a finer gift than the disappointment he was bringing them The End 13 i |