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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 281, 27 November 1925, Page 12

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He nodded afl'ably and went off. Joyce stood looking after him, amazed at his effrontery. Then, she continued her way along the promenade and rejoined Steven Maddison. J • -.. " ;, :' Xext morning TedSy. carried his.threat into execution." Scarcely was breakfast overjwhen Joyce was informed that a visitor awaited her in the drawing room. "Told you I'd look you up,"~ Teday greeted her. "Millie's gone out with her people, to see some friends, and I thought perhaps you'd come out for a walk for old times' sake. Xot that it would have made all the difference if she hadn't been fixed up," he added. 'T wanted to see you, in any case." He hesitated. "Look\liefe," he urged, "suppose 'I admit 1" was a bit hasty, that: evening? You know, when you :broke the engagement.' ••). .'•'.<: "I broke it?" exclaimed Joyce. «• '■■[ "\Vell, you gave the ring back,, didn't you? However, I daresay we were iioth to blame. Why should we make ourselves miserable over a silly quarrel like that? Why can't we go back to where we were before, oh V Let's be engaged again and " "And what about your Miss —Miss Chadling and the house property?" she inquired, unkindly. "It's all over with Miss Chadling! We had words about my going back to speak to you last night. And the property's mortgaged pretty heavily, so that's no great loss, is it?" Joyce was numb with indignant amazement at the young man's presumption. "I shouldn't dream for a moment " she began. '"Now, don't decide too haaily," lie urged. "I'll call again and see what you think about it." He nodded quite cheerfully and withdrew. Three days elapsed before Teddy called at the boardinghouse again. "Well, what's your answer?" he asked, masking his anxiety with a smile that was intended to be winning and ingratiatory. "Was it because you had heard I'd inherited a fortune that you wanted to conic back to mc?" asked Joyce, steadily. "C'er-i-ertainly not!" "Because, you know, that was only Doris Deane's joke!" '"Joke? But—look.at you! Look at the way you dress! That means money!" "Yes, the money I'd saved up towards a home of my own!" "So that's the explanation? I've been let down properly! And—and I've lost the other girl! Just through believiiiT what folks tell mc! If Tnacet Mies Deane I'll have something pretty hard to say to her, I promise you! When I think " . He strutted from' the room. Joyce went to the- window and looked out over the sea. When she looked round again, Steven .Maddison was watching her from the doorway. "That fellow who left here just now," he said awkwardly. "He met mc and—and he's been telling mc about yOU \, h" 1 tried t0 st °P him > anc » he would blurt it all out. And now " He came a little farther into the room '•Well, you see, I—l've never hinted anything before, because I I'm not much of a chap. I mean. I—l've got to work for my own living, and the proprietress of this place told mc you were an heiress, and—and all that "sort of thing! But now—ypll, I mean " Joyce glanced at him and glanced away again. "X suppose you think it a—a bit sudden?" he floundered on. "I mean, do you think you could ever " Doris came dancing into the room. "Talk about a cyeloue!" she observed, delightedly. "(Jeorge and I wore' outside'when Teddy dashed up. He was cfoss. and started to tell mc what he thought of mc, but George Well Teddy didn't stop for mc. He had to' hurry off to bathe his nose."