SHE WAS TO BE MARRIED AT ONE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 8

SHE WAS TO BE MARRIED AT ONE.

It happened at Tlawera. The front door of the shop had closed, the mere men's barbers had swept up, hung up their white coats, adjusted their ties and sallied forth to dinner and sunshine. But the bobbing shing-ling-bingling expert in charge of the ladies’ chair worked on, while still a bench full of fair heads awaited their trim. One by one the clock ticked oft the minutes between twelve and one. For two *ol' the patient waiters they were ticking nearer to lunch, so neither cared; for the barber they were ticking into what should have been his half-holiday, yet he was cheerful; but for one girl they were racing in a frantic contest with the throbbing of her heart. She glanced at her watch. at the chair, and the two beside her, then back to the chair and the clock, the • while a dainty foot beat an impatient tattoo on the floor. At last she spoke. “Do you think”—very pleasantly and with a determined effort to be cairn—“Do you think you and vour friend will be very long? You see”—not so calmly now—“you see, 1 am to be married at 1 o'clock.” . . She reached the church door at live minutes past the hour.