Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 28, 2025
She heard him as one hears music far away, only the accents and the climaxes coming clear. He asked her questions, and she was conscious of answering them: How long had she known Mr. Ayling? He and her husband had been boyhood friends; she had met him first at the time of her marriage to Major Lonsdale. Had they kept up the friendship during all these years? No, she had heard nothing of Mr.
At four Ayling tapped at her door to say that there was in the sitting-room "an absolutely enormous tea." That night, before a beautiful fire in the sitting-room, they caught each other yawning at half past nine, and at ten they said good-night. It had been so perfect that the next day found them following the same routine. And the next day, and the next.
For two hundred yards or so he continued serenely upon his way, with the air of one exhibiting the metropolis to a party of country cousins. He passed numerous turnings. Then, once or twice, he paused irresolutely; then moved on. Finally he halted, and proceeded to climb out of the trench. "What are you doing?" demanded Ayling suspiciously.
Ayling reclined upon the floor, mechanically adjusting a machine-gun lock, which he had taken from his haversack. Captain Wagstaffe was making cocoa over a Tommy's Cooker. He looked less the worse for wear than the others, but could hardly have been described as spruce in appearance.
Lonsdale, but I must tell you that we have received a telephone message here at the club that I hope it will not shock you too much that Mr. Ayling died sometime to-day, at an inn where he was staying, at Homebury St. Mary, I believe." His voice was very gentle and concerned. She hesitated perceptibly, and his voice came over the wire, "I'm sorry very sorry, to tell you in this way "
Bessie Lonsdale looked up, and saw that those fleecy, light-gray clouds which she had seen in the sky early that morning as she stood waiting for Ayling in the garden of the inn, and which had been gathering all day, hung now black and menacing just above her head. It descended upon them suddenly; torrents ran in the road. The wind veered, and sent great gusts of rain into the car.
"If we had come the way you wanted," interrupted Ayling brutally, "we should probably have been in Kingdom Come by now. Hurry up!" Ayling, in common with the rest of those present, was not in the best of tempers, and the loquacity of the guide had been jarring upon him for some time. The Cockney private, with the air of a deeply-wronged man, sulkily led on, followed by the dolorous procession.
"Only, warn your men to be careful not to dig too deep!" And with this dark saying he lounged off to take Ayling for his promised walk. "I'll take you along the road a bit, first," he said, "and then we will turn off into the field where the corner of the redoubt is, and you can look at things from the outside."
In order to cover the retirement of the excursionists, Ayling was ordered to arrange for machine-gun fire, which should sweep the enemy's parapet for some hundreds of yards upon either flank, and so encourage the enemy to keep his head down and mind his own business. The raid itself was a brilliant success.
Lonsdale, because of a very may I say a very unfortunate element in connection with the case. It appears that there was a woman with Mr. Ayling at the Homebury St. Mary inn." Bessie Lonsdale waited, she did not know for what. Whole minutes seemed to go by with the elderly Mr. Burke sitting there in his attitude of formal sympathy before his voice began again.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking