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L] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE _.~" PAGE NINE TOONS TAI THI CII CHI CII OI OI CD OI OI TI II TI OI THI CII TI Oy 2 A Tale of Great Love Joracstonions ¥ FETYENETRINE RHI 5 i Hi The hotel in this little town amid the foothills was not large. But it was the best of three that the town contained. It was com- fortable. The air in the room was blue with cigar smoke. On a table was a box of candied fruits. The room was furnished with a few good pieces. It had a less non- ttal air than have most hotel rooms. Indeed, it seemed al- most to stare down, a little, two out of three people who at pres- ent occupied it. Mrs. Fosdyke stretched out her large firm hand for another fruit. Her husband gazed round the room. With deliberation he ex- haled smoke and with approval he nodded at what he saw. For today and tomorrow this was to be his private sitting room. His dispatch case and a portfolio were laid out on the wri table, with a sheaf of opened letters and a portable ter. Mr. beg Rl elieved in engaging private sit! rooms when he ay He believed in lurury, for the effect was that of wealth and magnificence; an at- in which business is more quickly done. On this oc- casion, however, there was no business, for he was snatching a holi on his way to a capital city. But you never knew, he re- flected, you never knew; he had known a stroke of business to be brought off in the most unlikely places. . . . "Well, d'Alain," he said. "I must A fi make a good courier. n you first stopp at this out-of-the-way hole, I ha my doubts. But it's comfortable. And there's something about these rooms that you don't often see." Etienne, his arm laid along the high Shimney piece with its deli- cate armorial carving, migh! ! replied that this hotel had been the town house of a branch of his family now extinct. And that in this room he and his little sister had played as children. But he was content to say, "I am glad you are pleased." "Now, what were we about?" asked Mrs. Fosdyke. "You were talking," said Eti- enne distinctly, "of Ginnie and her brother." Mrs. Fosdyke raised her grey- waved head and lifted large, hard blue eyes. "You never have liked Jerry, have you?" she said. "I find him light timber," Eti- enne replied, and his hand made a gesture as if it snapped some- thing. & t timber! Is that what you him? I call him--" Mr. Fos- might well have protested, "Well, his Jays of lounging round Bel- 's Hotel and turning up at my ce at ten-fifteen are over. I'll His wife didn't look up from her knitting. As carelessly as if he Scke of the disposal of a puppy, said, "I don't think Jerry will talk. He has an idea of the value of his hide." ey alue! It's Bot worth two- me, now--in England. No. Butt might find a use for him elsewhere. He was quick enough. What he wants is to be under someone who'll put the fear of God into him. Oh, he feared you all Tight, and with some reason, eh? But the trouble with you, d'Alain, is that you're a gentle- "Have you found it a trouble?" Etienne ed with the coolest "No! Naz eSiiine Rok Quite con! " yke's laugh would perhaps have been less loud if he had ever been quite at ease with his lieutenant. "Lou and I were saying only yesterday we feel you'd never let us down." "Certainly that is very nice," Etienne commented. "Of course, old boy, I take my utions," said Fosdyke, and 4 eyes of the two men met. "Naturellement," said Etienne. They both laughed. "No; but it's a darned funny thing," said Fosdyke, "how I never make a mistake. I knew, that first time I met you in Paris, you were the sort that doesn't crack. And I OND G0 040 30 $0 HO HI EA SND IN NI CII FI GI SN NI NOD : : : ) IIIS ND IONS TIONING "Yes," said Etienne softly, "I shall do that." "--And I was determined to get you. Now you might say I'd m a mistake with those two pups, Ginnie and Jerry. But I don't think so. I've got a good deal out of Jerry in these two years. If his gentlemanly days are over, I'm not the loser. And I won't be the loser over Ginnie either. There she is, rolling in cash. Well, I'm going to get a bit of that as a regular thing. If she doesn't want her young brother's past and pres- ent dragged up, she'll shell out, eh?" There was watchfulness in Eti- enne's glance, though he hardly looked at his employer. "I think," he said dryly, "that you might find her husband formidable." "But, my dear old chap," said Fosdyke, the thick lips smiling above the cigar, "don't you see? There's nothing he can possibly do. Granted, after the Olivier business he may have his sus- picions of us. Well, what's he going to do? Have a scandal? Drag up his young wife's antecedents? Not a chance! They're an old- fashioned lot in the country, so I'm told. No. It's safe. And Gin- nie can contribute a little to her family." "Blackmail," "I'm not frightened of a word. It's not your cup of tea, d'Alain, I daresay, Well--I'm not asking you to come in on it." His wife looked up and smiled. "You'll have to be careful, dear," she said. "Etienne's not safe where Ginnie is concerned." There was a pause. "Now what d'you mean by that?" asked Fos- dyke. "Just this. Etienne wouldn't have minded little Ginnie himself, I think. Eh, Etienne? You've never liked to think of her with her hus- band, have you? Well, when a man feels like that, you can't trust him, gentleman or not." Etienne was lighting a cigarette. The smoke veiled, for a second, his face. If in that second the man and woman before him could have seen his eyes they might, perhaps, have moved so far from him as not to remain in this room or in this house or in this little town. But they did not see. Mr. Fosdyke said with an al- most pleasant laugh, "d'Alain knows too much--and has seen too much--to try any games with me." Etienne's. voice was colorless and smooth as ice. "In answer to your wife I will say, I always found Ginnie Riven too young to be caught in the machinery of our lives. Also, that the word 'gentle- man' has been too much used in these last minutes. But since you have used it I give you my word as a gentleman"--for a second he looked round the vaulted room and. the quiet voice rang as ice rings--"my word that I will never in my life thwart your plans for little Ginnie Stone and her hus- band." A "My dear fellow!" Heartily, Mr. Fosdyke broke the silence. "You mustn't take notice of Lou. Women! They're all the same, al- ways thinking a chap's fancy's caught by any little skirt in sight. You're a dark horse, d'Alain. I'll bet when you have your fun it's with someone less like the crystal spring than our little Ginnie." Expressionlessly Etienne sur- veyed his employer. He glanced at the watch on his wrist. "It is certainly time," he said, "for our drive." * % =» Etienne sat at the wheel. Be- hind him were Mr. and Mrs. Fos- dyke.. They were always very affable to him on these occasions, as if they feared he might resent being treated as a chauffeur. Curi- ous, the sort of things they thought one might resent because one was a "gentleman"? Etienne smiled. Steering the car through the narrow streets of that small town, it was strange to glance into the window of the little shop where he and his sister--dead, now--had always gone with their nurse to spend the tips which their old uncle gave them. There, hanging outside the door, were the same white plaster horses, shiny, with painted manes and red painted saddles. There hung the hoops and, in the window, dolls and the helmet of a cuirassier, the long plume behind. How he had longed once for such a helmet! He saw himself and his little sister stand- ing before that window, solemn with excitement. Ursule on tiptoe, himself more solidly planted, his fingers rustling the paper francs. What a queer little face Ursule had had, with the promise of beauty to come. But the promise hadn't been redeemed, for she had died at the age of fifteen. The car passed a slow mule- drawn cart, turning into the twist- ing, downward, crowded street which had at its end the view of the near mountains. Had he been right, Etienne wondered, in re- turning here for these two days? Yes, there was no danger. He had not been seen here for sixteen years and no one would recognize, in the man he now was, the pale slight boy of fourteen. And to re- turn had been like hearing faint- est, clearest music, to him who so loved music. And why, he thought, should I not have music on this of all days? Here was the narrow exquisitely arched bridge. He gave the green fierce river a downward glance and the fraction of a nod. It was a friend that soon, in the moun- tains where the waters plunged between the soaring walls of the gorge of the Darenne, he:would meet again, (To be continued) Windsors May Soon Visit Canada The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, LEFT, are shown talkin to mress members who interviewed the mew arrivals on the Queen Elizabeth in New York. 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