 He likes to disappoint people, she told Ilse, as
they went downthe lane.
Oh, Ilse, where is that poor little lost boy
to-night?
This side was uppermost to-nightand her very
thoughts ran into rhyme.
Its dreadful, agreed Ilse, looking rather sick, but
WE cant doanything.
The only landmark visible was a tall spire on a
hill tenmiles away. It filled her with its beauty, which she must later give to
theworld. She looked at me fora second as she passed me, and her eyes were pools of
hatred. Of course they have to have something to fill up thecorners.
Ilse squatted on a stone in a fence cornerand
waited with ostentatious patience. May I ask if you intend to camp on the side of
the road?
Ihear Principal Hardy expects her to head her class
in the terminalexaminations. Id ruther see thespecial edition fore I subscribe. Ive
got a FUTURE, I said, as proudly as the Murrayest of allMurrays could have said it.
Im afraid to speak out loud for fear itwill vanish.
So we had our Pow-wow after alland it was a
brilliant success. And now it hastumbled into my lap like a gift thrown down by the
gods. Im sitting on the sill of my open window in my own dear room.
They soon realized that they were not going to
reach it. It seems to me impossible that I shall either grow old or die. Then were
five miles from Wiltney, said Ilse despairingly. Remember theresult of your telling
about our moonlit bath.
I jest cant eat or cook for thinking of his poor
mother. I mightforgive her the cutting things but never the laugh. But nobody saw
anythingof him round the wharf or the bridge that morning. I do NOT like to have one
of my family talked about like that. Ilse, swear youll never mention thisescapade to
a living soul.
Could you have believedpeople could be so
detestable?
But nobody saw anythingof him round the wharf or
the bridge that morning.
Its only half an hours walk, while around bythe
Malvern Road its an hour. Itsreally such good luck as to be uncanny.
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