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Considering the quiet life you lead, you must be simply pining for amusement." "I am," said Sylvia. "Austin let's go to the movies in Wallacetown to-morrow night." Austin, suddenly grave, shook his head. "Shows" in Wallacetown were associated in his mind with a period in his life when he had very nearly broken his mother's heart, and which he had now put definitely behind him.
She was, indeed, scarcely longer than that. They were almost instantly speeding down the road together, while she asked, "Have you sent for the doctor?" "Yes, but there isn't any there yet. Dr. Wells was off on a confinement case, and we've had to telephone to Wallacetown she was perfectly determined not to have one, anyway. Oh, Sylvia, what can it be? And why should she want you so?"
"You look very nice in what you've got." "Oh, don't be silly!" she said. "If I'm going to live at Wallacetown Wallacetown, mind you, the smartest place this side of Sydney I must be respectably clothed. I shall have to go to Trelevan, and see what I can find." "You and Adela had better have a week off," said Jack, "and go while Fletcher is busy there.
The next night was to be Austin's last one at home, and he had promised Sylvia to go and take supper with her, but just before six o'clock the telephone rang, and she knew that something had happened to disappoint her. "Is that you, Sylvia?" "Yes, dear." "Mr. Carter the President of the Wallacetown Bank, you know has just called me up.
The expression was as pure and as sad and as gentle as that of a Mater Dolorosa he had chanced to see in a collection of prints at the Wallacetown Library, and yet and yet Austin knew instinctively that the dead husband, whoever he might have been, and his own brother Thomas were not the only men besides himself who had found it irresistibly alluring.
We read in the Wallacetown Bugle that there was goin' to be a picture called 'The Serpent of the Nile' an' Joe an' I thought we could risk that, it sounded kinder geographical an' instructive. Of course we went mostly to see the new buildin' an' who else would be there, anyway. But land! the serpent was a girl dressed in the main in beads an' a pleasant smile.
"They say all the uncaught criminals find their way to the Fortescue Gold Mine." "Yes," said Hill. "Is it true?" asked Adela, curiously. "I am not in a position to say, madam." Hill's voice sounded sardonic. "That means he doesn't know," explained Jack. "Look here, man! If you've ridden all the way from Wallacetown to-day you can't go back to Trelevan to-night.
He paused with that dramatic instinct which was surely part-secret of his fascination. He had caught the full attention of the crowd, and held them spellbound. In a moment he went on. "That gave him an idea. Hill, of course, was after other game by that time and didn't spot him. Hill was a magistrate and a civil power at Wallacetown.
Probably, from the earliest era, young men have been thirsty, and their parents have bemoaned the fact. It is not hard to imagine Eve wringing her hands over Cain and Abel when they first sampled generously the beverage they had made from the purple grapes which grew so plentifully near the Garden of Eden. Wallacetown also offered "balls," not occasionally, but two or three times a week.
Wallacetown was progressive and prosperous; its high school ranked with the best in the State, its shops were excellent, its buildings, both public and private, neat and attractive. There were several reasons, however, for the "slams" which its neighbors gave it.
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