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He stumbled over a pig which, according to the time-table, ought not to have been there. They went off hurriedly together, the pig leading, both screaming. Miss Janie said she would show me the short cut across the fields; we could talk as we went. We walked in silence for awhile. "You must not think," she said, "I like being the one to do all the haggling.
"And this is little Janie about whom you have written us so often! We are happy to have you with us, Janie." "I am glad to be home, Mother," said Mary, "but I am anxious to go back to Africa as soon as I can. There are so many souls there to be won for Jesus." Mary soon got over her sickness and was well and strong again.
"Oh, yes," she told him. "He will understand. It is the word that he is waiting for, you see." "I see." But there had been a grave wonder in his voice. "Would it " she had framed the words as carefully as though it were a strange tongue that she was speaking "would it be possible to buy his machine? He wouldn't want any one else to fly it." "Little Janie, never fear.
Harry had asked silence for a week; before two days of it were gone came this news. "If they do mean to be married," said Janie, "why couldn't they do it decently?" She meant with the respectable deliberation of her own alliance. "Tristram's a queer fellow," pondered Bob Broadley. "I only hope he isn't rushing her into it on purpose. What do you think, Mr Neeld?" "My dear Janie "
Mina knew; suddenly he hated that she should know. "Is she in love with you?" asked Cecily, mockingly yet languidly, indeed as a great lady might inquire about the less exalted, condescending to be amused. "Nobody's in love with me, not even the girl who's going to marry me." "To marry you?" She sat up, looking at him. "Are you engaged?" "Yes, to Janie Iver. You know who I mean?" "Yes, I know.
But I'm hanged if I'm going to be in a funk of Duplay." He seemed to ask her approval of the proposed firmness of his attitude. "I've been a bit of an ass about it all, I think," he concluded with an air of thoughtful inquiry. The opening was irresistible. Janie seized it with impetuous carelessness. "Yes, you have, you have indeed. Only I don't see why you think it's over, I'm sure."
But why do I take Janie to Mingham?" "They'd say that Bob Broadley's no real danger, and if it should disgust Harry Tristram " "I am clever! Dear Miss Swinkerton, I never thought of anything half so good myself. I'll tell uncle about it directly." Miss S. looked at her suspiciously. The innocence seemed very much over-done. "I knew you'd laugh at it," she observed.
And as though hell itself must yield to mirth, the fury wavered failed sank to muttering. But Janie, beaten to her knees and laughing, never even heard it die. "Jerry?" she whispered into the darkness, "Jerry?" Oh, more wonderful than wonder, he was there! She could feel him stir, even if she could not hear him so close, so close was he that if she even reached out her hand, she could touch him.
She hailed her class-mates, and at once began to talk over the match and rejoice at the school victory. "Who says we're no good at games now? This has sent up our credit ten per cent! I'm proud of the Coll.!" "Blossom was A1," exulted Verity. "And Janie was simply ripping. Dad thought no end of her. Didn't you, Dad?" "Well, I'm glad we made something of a record," admitted Ingred.
Nosey returned to Portsmouth and his ship. His mess the mess-deck itself was agog with rumours. Had he heard the "buzz"? Nosey had not. "I bin to London to see a fren'," he explained. Then they told him. The battle-cruiser to which he belonged had been ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. That was Monday; they were to sail for Malta on Thursday. And Janie was dying in the Middlesex Hospital.
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