"JAC By COUNTESS BARCYNSKA Author of "ROSE O' THE SEA" KIE " CHAPTER XXXI (Continued) "Oh, cherl, forgive: mel" she whispered, . She Iaid her pale pink his hands, When the nurse back she was ready, reconciled, She had been crying..,. When she got home she wrote |to Carter, B8he was afraid that when he knew of her grief he might 0, if only out of sympathy. She felt she could not bear to see him now that he doubted and despised her. Though Benny's death absolved hbr from keeping his secret the desire to justify herself had gone. Mervyn had lost faith in her, She was too proud to sue to him, This was her letter: , If you haye the wish to ex- press sadness for the death of my beloved Benny please do not come to tell it. I know that you also are sad for him, but if you will make a little journey to the hospital you will assure yourself that he has happiness, Jackie, 8 She had Already returned him the otes which Bowman had rejected, together with his engagement ring and a few other presents. Benny as dead. Her rupture with Mervyn was final. She seemed to have sounded all the depths of des- oletion. There remained nothing for her to do but to sit at home. She had not the heart to go out. Later the theatre would claim her. She had no thought of keeping away because o hér grief. Doubtless there wer: others who would have to dance and sing with a breaking heart to-nigh' Her servant entered to tell her that Bowman had come; She was too apathetic to care, She went to meet him, The traces of grief were on her face. She had put on a black frock on her return from the nursing home. Bowman made & wry face when he saw her, He alays associated Jackie with color. Black annoyed him, Bo did tears, "Hullo," he said derisively, "Come from a'funeral? You don't look very festive, I just looked in to tell you that I'll be coming round to fetch you on Friday morning at twelve sharp. Bo if you've any special pals you want to invite to the wedding you'd better issue your invitations quick. Don't you go putting on black clothes, though. Suppose you've been weeping for your mounseer Johnnie Rotten bad compliment to me, I call it, to go into mourning for him. Well, I won't stop now. I'll just take that kiss I was done out of when--"" He as advancing on her, but stop- ped at her quiet interruption. "I do not marry you on Friday, Bowman." "Oh, don't you?" he cried ironi- cally, "We'll see about that, Don't think you can play tricks with me, Jackie. Now or any time. You tried once when you ran away. It didn't help you much. You're going to marry me whether you like it or not, or, as I've told you, Benny will have to pay for it." "It is because of Benny that you have no more power upon me." She spoke in a dead, level, emotionless voice, "Only for Benny have I made pretence. Now all that is altered. & She crossed herself, 'He is dead. at is why you can never have Kd For a moment Bowman was take en aback, Was she speaking the truth? If so, then.,..But all girls were liars, Jackie, being a foreigu~ er and an actress as well, was. of course a bigger llar than most, A clever trick: that -- the black dress, the pale face, the tearful eyes. But he wasn't to be fooled so easily, In Jute he wasa't going to be fooled at all, ' "You don't think I'ms going to swallow a made-up story like that?" he said contemptuously. "A few days ago according to you he was going to get bettér, Now you say he's dead, You can't kid me Iike that." "I cannot make argument. I have told you the truth, believe me you can make certain for yourself, The address of the home where he was nursed is 89, Wimpole Street, Go there and pake enquiry It you wish, You will hear what I have already told you...," Bowman began to have a waver- ing suspicion that she might be! speaking the truth after all, | "And I will tell you more," pur- sued Jackie. "When you made! threat to hurt Benny unless I would! marry you, I had no intention to consent to such a terrible thing. .I' loved Benny, but to marry you to save him was a price too great. I, had but the idea to make a play with | you so that you might think I would | agree. In that way I had thought | to contrive a little extra time in or-| der for Benny to recover and gain! strength. Then I had arrange that! we should run away once more -- to Paris, and there we could have res! main lost till yon abandoned search, Now, unhappily, I have no reason to hide. 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H! repose she knew was' assured and eternal. She prayed, hoping to de- rive comfort from the sweet-faced Virgin with the Holy Child in he: arms. Late in the afternoon a knock a! her dor roused her from the dul lethargy into which she had fallen. "I'l make you care," roared Bow-| man, beside himself with fury and] baulked desire. - "I'll marry you, Benny dead or Benny alive! I've: whether I can or not. Guess you | pever yet gone without a thing I've! lon't know me yet. If I don't have! made up my mind to have, and I'm my way with you, I'll break his bles-| not going to, now. You shan't es! sed back for good and all." | cape me, I promise you! From the! "His back is better," she return-| moment I set eyes on you that night d, still in that quiet voice. "He | when you came running into the par-' S now stronger than you, Bowman." | lour at the Green Feathers, all blaz- { In' fury and pink spangles, I've been! -- | crazy for you. I wanted you first! And this is why! ! because yom were pretty. And when | I found you'd made a hit on the stage | | and might soon be at the top of the! { tree, I wanted you still more, because ' I meant to shin up it myself on your) | shoulders. But more than all I want | ¥ou because I've promised myself] | the joy pf breaking your spirit { : And yom won't put me off it standing! { there looking lke a she-cat. [I don't] | care either. I'm Bowman. And} 1 I'll marry you on Friday as sure as! {I'm alive, so help me--" { He raided bis fist melodramatical- AR ily ceilingwards. But neither his! ® . ! rage mer his threats disquieted Jack- ANSOE MAR AI0YT say tte now. Again her quiet, level voice interrupted him, and over her A ee face there hovered the ghost of 2 smile that was the very essemoe of scorn. 1 "God will not help' you, Bowman," | she declared. "And life is mot ocer- tain." 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