Show WAITING G FOR A BANG we had bad been staying iu in wales for ever so long iong weeks and weeks an awful time it had seemed to ino drifting rim aimlessly about maud and her husband maud is my sister by the way and newly married professing to be almost as much gone on the ile as they really were on each other so fo you can easily guess what that meant for poor me until george joined us the chief nay the only difficulty was george he be did not quite catch on ho was very agreeable aud and very nice but apparently quite satisfied to enjoy eu joy himself with us and then go back to work as he be playfully phrased it I 1 a giant refreshed and could not be got to see that there was anything more serious in life than aimlessly frivoling frivol ing about we had lone done snowdon Snow dou nud and really what with the electric light and the iho crowd and nil all that it was not half balf bal bad quite cheerful you know on and d civilized indeed I 1 never should have gone without after that I 1 think yes it was george suggested our going to Deth osda not that any of us were at all in slates or quarries only it was somo homo where to go aud and all ail excuse for a drive george ordered the cart carriage jage and made all the arrangements ile he had been there before so BO knew nil all about tile the show as he be said eaid and we left everything to him altogether it was so eo stupid and so dull that but for what maud culled called the of off chance of george I 1 never could even that began to look desperate even have stood it as long hodg as I 1 did though maud began to lose heart and yet I 1 dont know how bow it is you yon ire are looking your best and she eyed me critically and he seems seeing quite fond of you iu in his big way but there here was the bitch his way was wag not ours apparently be was no do fonder of me than of any other girl or of maud herself we saw the men lay down their tools and as though they had bad been so eo many rabbits disappear into their heir holes and after a few mor moments of suspense there were several loud explosions and we were told that the dynamite had done its level best or its best to level tho the place and we were warned most solemnly that once we inside tile the works we bad only boon been on tile the outer edge then w whenever the whistle sounded we must get into tile ho nearest shelter and not come out ou on auy any account until after we had hoard board the bad baug 1 it was highly exciting at the first but by repetition even danger grew monotonous aud and began to pill pall and we strolled on george aud and I 1 and left the foreman to I 1 ook look after the others as best lie he could maud and fred seem very much attached dont you think said george as we looked back just before passing round a curve and caught sight of the them with their arms round each others waists ostensibly listening to the foie mauls mana improving discourse but really as we e knew horn experience far far away they are indeed I 1 answered with a sigh that might have meant anything from envy to despair I 1 realized with a blush according to the interpreter and the interpretation and wo we strolled ou on again to a part of the workings ratler rather screened by that pyramid left standing iu in the he middle 1 I suppose it is not possible to get lost ourselves I 1 began preS presently CUtly bless me no you mean with wilh this ibis jack in the box bos arrangement oh dear no one has only to pop out ont and you can see all over the show but slop in and but thebes that infer I 1 mean that blessed thing again I 1 suppose we had better oh ob yes we must really go in all the ho men are off already aud and if they do it who are so EO used to it nud nod know wo vo should lie be very foolish to fisl seo see theres a refuge hero berol and we nye went inside after all it is ia rather jolly in here out of the sun bon beastly hot outside dont you think thick sightseeing ing all aud all that it gets to be rather nt rather iber p A bore do you yon mean acan I 1 I 1 interposed to r used that dep depend erld oh 01 of course aud and I 1 dont think I 1 meant you see its this way and he be lit a cigar its tile the having to see things the bore I 1 take you and me for instance we could have been justas arst as pollyand jolly joll yand and barmore far more comfortable over there at tile the inn or in fact uny any wb cro are you yon so go dreadfully uncomfortable here I 1 asked dismally disi nally by no means quito quite otherwise I 1 assure you you dont mind my gwok lug ing I 1 know but ive often thought that by tar far the best way to go sightseeing would bo be to leave tho the sights alone but does not much depond depend upon ones er companion I 1 asked not noro more doubtfully than I 1 felt wo we that Is is you 1 I see what nhat you mean certainly wo we should be ba thrown back very much on each other hut all right you yon know with people w who 1 0 ore are properly chummy do you yon mean no not maud aland and fred they are almost too much so they miss nearly all going on and so dont get the best out ont of it whereas you yon ond and I 1 understand each other and can get along splendidly without without confounded fou tided long while tho the bang this S timo tse tam ele it wonder if it ever mis misses s fi firel how would you yon care for a lit flat buch as this I 1 must most have looked puzzled fur for he be wet went it on hurriedly no I 1 dont mean the flat you mean can so BO you need not look severe I 1 mean ono one room and all that sort oi of thing be fillis finished bed vaguely why 1 I began nervously 1 Is I should bould think it would bo be rather nice but Cram cramped 1 ho he interposed quickly yes I 1 knew you would say that I 1 sa said i d I 1 supposed he be NY was as on only ly c chaffing b a effing and did riot cot mean anything ovdear oh dear no DO its only my way but it is curious that er name must certainly have missed firo fire you yon know the man said we were not on any account to stir until after the explosion oh just as you like im all right only I 1 thought maud and fred you know but no do doubt they will boenit bo waiting too though 1 I suppose they hoy would say they were only one and it is wenho we who w were ere the two i does ho be think I 1 am trying to keep him here on purpose I 1 wondered you quite understand I 1 explained it is not that I 1 want to stop oh I 1 quite understand and I 1 could hardly expect that he be assented pleasantly aly cut at you know wo cannot possibly go 90 until after after no I 1 dare say you yon are right it would be rather awkward I 1 dare say to go out and find ourselves the center of if a small eruption what a slating we should get betl I 1 ob there it is confound we exclaimed together as a tremendous explosion announced the iho possibility of our release and forthwith we nye stepped on to the terrace outside you seem deew awfully delighted to get out said george rather pointedly and I 1 supposed ile he meant it for harca sarcasm sm but I 1 could not resent it or say I 1 was not one can breathe moio moie freely now that the the explosion has come coma boffl P was all I 1 could say just then camo came mand oh there you are I 1 where on earth pr or under it have yon boon been and seo ing our confusion sho was misled into adding we began to think you must lave have run off with her this with would be was to georgo george but this was too much no by jovel jove I 1 I 1 wish iliad I 1 hadl I 1 fact is maud I 1 im an awful fool foell I 1 to think abin of wasting wast ilig such a chancel chance 1 weve been shut up there hero two blessed hours and I 1 told you yon id something very particular to ask udith edith well she replied looking dubiously olt nt in me it well I 1 be been on able to say aay a word you yon will just have hare to ask lier her for me and a fact whenever I 1 try to come coma to tho the point she either crushes ruo nic or freezes me and ive been talking tho the most awful drivel you yon ever heard then why you come out wo we were waiting for the explosion dont you know and I 1 I 1 explode whereupon upon maud burst out laubi laughing Dg and R nd I 1 could not for my iny life think W why by but for me there would have been no explosion when the last whistle sounded founded the men finished work for the day they ill all went home wo we thought you yon must have gone too at first while us to finding you yon well it would have bave taken weeks but I 1 guessed how you were occupied heie george groaned aloud EO eia by way of rousing you yon I 1 got tho the foreman to nanke another bang just as I 1 shall ba hao bao o to edh gho looked wickedly at geor george geore e thou then ran away and at that he be exploded and loutit out it came with a rush how bow he had bad been dying for days to ask me just what I 1 had been dying for days to hear bear only I 1 would not havu have him know it for the world aaa ers |