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The Liberal, 21 Jun 1923, p. 2

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I finished my breakfast and-drove down to Bostocks. Mrs. Whltcomb told me that the gentleman had made a great fuss for an hour or so that morning, but was 'quiet now. I took a jug of water, a slice of bread and a cane I had brought with me up to the attic. When I came up through the trapdoor I found Befiamy stand- ing over‘ it, waiting for me. I When he saw Who it was he sald, huskily: “You? You’ve found me, thank God!” “Found you? I ‘put you here,” I said The jug of water bucked him up a bit, for,he looked feeble murder at me. got into something of an attitude, and croaked: “What does this mean?” “Well, if you ask me, I should say it meant that you’d married the wrong man’s daughter. But I gave you your warning.” I said quietly. “Warning?” he said. . He had actually forgotten it. “I told you if you didn’t make Spsie happy I'd give you hell,” I said. “Oâ€"tha’c," he said. “Just that,” said I. He put upno kind of a fight. I did not mind; I was not there for sport, but to give the hell I had promised him and expand his emotional nature my Way. Then I caned him just as I used to be caned at school. I gave him rather more than the average caning because he was older. I was not afraid of his showing the bruises .to any one. not even to the law. He looked perfectly awful with his shiny white skull and dirty, tear- streaked face. Unthinkingly, he sat down Square on the mattress. At once he shifted smartly on to his side, pulled himself together, and stopped blubbering. But, my word. he did glower! I told him a dozen things about himself he had never before realized. Then I handcuffed him and apologized for leaving him so soon. “But I’m taking Susie and Geoffrey Franks out to dinner and the theatre and the Midnight Follies,” I said. “But you can rely on me 10 .come down and cane you to-morrow." Susie and Geoffrey and I had a Susie and Geoffrey and I had a pleasant time. I fancied that she felt that. she was" getting a holiday. She had nothing to be really anxious about â€"-no rackety Enid, no high-brow man snatcher. The next day I went down to Bos- tocks and had. another painful inter- view with B’ellamy. It began with rather more of a fight. ‘When the more painful part of it was over I repeated a good deal of what I had told him about himself the day before. I want edfltAo get" it into his head: Then I said: “We had a ripping time last night. I d(.n"t think I ever ate batter caviareâ€"the small grained kind you know.” He gave me a murderous look; and I went on: “I didn't bring you down here entirely for the good of your soul. I also wanted you out of the way. I want Susie to see a lot of Geoffrey Franks. He’s very much in love with her, you know; and she was very_fon_d_of hi_m_ti1i ygu came along.” “You blasted fiend!” he said, quite fiercely. I laughed and said: “I'm taking then} youpd the _tqwr_1 Vagaifn Vtoâ€"night.” Wim ghat I left hini. I had given him something to think about. and I It is green tea in perfection-fresh, clean and flavory. Superior to the finest Japans you ever tasted. I_{_e sgepped back sharply f hose Who Brink japam The Wrong Man’s Daughter PART II. Sold by all Grocers. gfiould surely ery GREEN TEA BY EDGAR JEPSON. I left him a jug of water and about twelve ounces of dry bread. I was not pampering him; but I did not want him to get too much run doWn, That attic was devilishly cold. ‘ Next day, after the usual little [fight and bamboo formula and telling 'Bellamy some more things about him- self I had thought of, I chatted to him .about some chicken Marylz nd I had eaten the night before and how much better and happier Susie was looking langpf my hopes of her and Franks. x "1 know I couldn‘t! But I shall itry!” he said, still twitching. | “It’s these middle-class prejudices ithat rob life of its beauty,” I said. i“And I can't, for the life of me, see ‘what is troubling you. You’ll be able to spend all your time with Enid Cooperâ€"Calhoun and Mrs. Clavering iClayton now." wanted him to start to think. My guess was that he could be as jealous as the next man. It would be an occupation. I kept up that treatment for three more days. It seemed' to be having a fairly satisfactory effect on him. He was thinner, naturally, and his face looked to be chiefly eyes, and it was paler and very lachrymose~looking. He looked nothing like so much pleas- ed with himself nor so proud-spirited as he had looked. It was my guess that he had a more accurate idea of his real place in the world. On the fourth day I dropped the caning. But I took the cane up with me and a couple of thick beef sandwiches. After he had eaten themâ€"41nd he did enjoy themâ€"I set him to run round and round the room. I wanted to return him to Susie in good condition. When be flagged I encouraged him with the cane. After his exercise I chatted with him about an entrecote of almost preâ€"war excellence I had found at the Cafe Royal and of Geoffrey’s progress with Susie. On the morning of the fourteenth day she came round to see me_in a state of immense excitement. Her spirits were rather dashed when I told her that Bellamy would not be back ti ' tea time. It ’vould take some time to make him presmtable. He was not the extraordinary looking creature he had been; but he still looked odd. The hair on his head was not more than a sixteenth of an inch longer than the hair on his chin; and that was not any length to speak of. She went away to shop to keep herself quiet. I drove round to their flat and got a suit of his clothes and underlinen and his motor car. Then i chose a black wig at Clarkson’s and ordered it to j be sent round to his flat. I kept up that treatmentâ€"beef sandwiches and exerciseâ€"for five days. I had no need to use'the cane after the first two days of it; he was becoming quite a sprinter. Also his face was no longer all eyes, but what eyes there were in it were very much clearer and brighter than I had ever seen them, and his lips were thinner anl redder and more set. Also -I had no longer any need to tell him those things about himself. I had got them into his head. He admitted as much. He did not seem to hear _me any more malice than one would expect. On the eleventh day after he had put in his exercise, I gave him a cup 01 tea, strong and r with plenty of sugar in it. It was almost touching to see him drink it. He made nearly as much noise over it as one of the On the eleventh day put in his exercise, I g: 01 tea, strong- andrw sugar in it. It was al to see him drink it. H as much noise over it loxver classes. After he had d:unk it. talk hopefully about Susie fray Franks. Suddenly his nostrils twitched quoerly and he said: “Stop it! Stop inlay: I shall _try_ to strangle you!” , r ".1 *- ~- a-~ va“ ‘_‘I’m surpglsed at you," I said in a gneved vmce. “Yau know you couldn’t." “Damn Enid Cooper-Calhoun! Blast Mrs. Claverinnglayton!” he said. It sounded harsh, but it was cer- tainly fervent. “And that's man‘s love,” I said in a grieved voice. I left him, feeling rather please} with myself. Evidently his emotional nature was filling out. Also I was pleased about Susie. She was lookin another creature. Her holiday ha dorle her a world of good. I got, to Bostocks fairly early. Bel- lamy had no notion that his sentence expired that day. He had the idea that it ran for another three months. I set Mrs. Whitcomb to make coffee and frg eggs and bacon. Then I went up to ellamy. I was in great spir- its. I told him that I was practically sure that Susie had fixed it up with couldn’t! But I shall I began to and Geofâ€" H 851 Franks and, of course, there was no need to keep him at Bostocks any longer. He did not seem particularly Eleased to be getting his freedom, and is nostrils twitched a bit. But, after a preliminary wash, he did enjoy his eggs and bacon and coffee and 3 Cor- ona Corona. We started for home. As we came near Londor he grew fidgety. But when I suggested a shave and a Turkish bath he agreed, saying, rather drearily, that, after all, he didn’t suppose there was any hurry? He had them, and I drove him home. Wigs-t as we came near the housg I sald: “Now, don’t go and make a sully fuss if Franks is there.” He looked at me and shivered, and lips and nostrils twitched. “I’ll try not to,” he said, as if he wasn’t sure that he would succeed. Franks would not be there. “And if, by chance, you and Susie do make it up, don’t tell her about Bostocks. If you do she’ll never speak to me again, and I shall have nothing to live for but vengeance,” I said. “I shan’t,” he growled. When we came to the door of his flat I said: “Let’s go in quietly. They’re probably having tea to- gether.” He seemed to swallow somethingâ€" quite a lot, in factâ€"~and we went in quietly. There was a smell of muf- fins on the air. He opened the draw- ing-room door. Susie was sitting in front of the fire, looking at it. She was wearing the prettiest frock I ever saw her in. She looked around, screamed, jumped up, and howled: “Whatever have they done to your pool: hair?” Then she rushed at him, and he made one jump for her. I went out and shut the door. I shall keep out of Bellamy’s way a great deal for a year or twoâ€"as long as he runs straight, and I’m pretty sure he will. He can’t like to see me. Susie and I have never spoken of his unfortunate scrape till the other day. His hair explained everything so clear- ly. And, after all, it is not of any real importance to a really nice we- man that her husband has done a pal- try fourteen days without the option. 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