" She went to the door, and opened it noisily, rattling
the handle loudly--hoping he would look around.
But he never moved.
She accepted the attitude as one of dismissal.
Under her breath she murmured:
"Good-bye, Misther Jerry--an' God bless ye--an' thank ye for bein'
so nice to me." And she passed out.
In the hall Peg found Ethel and Hawkes waiting for her.
They put her between them in the cab and with "Michael" in her arms,
she drove through the gates of Regal Villa never to return.
The gathering storm broke as she reached the station. In storm Jerry
came into her life, in storm she was leaving his.
The threads of what might have been a fitting addition to the "LOVE
STORIES OF THE WORLD" were broken.
Could the break ever be healed?
CHAPTER XVIII
PEG'S FAREWELL TO ENGLAND
Many and conflicting were Peg's feelings as she went aboard the
ship that was to carry her from England forever.
In that short MONTH she had experienced more contrasted feelings
than in all the other YEARS she had lived.
It seemed as if she had left her girlhood, with all its keen
hardships and sweet memories, behind her.
When the vessel swung around the dock in Liverpool and faced toward
America Peg felt that not only was she going back to the New World,
but she was about to begin a new existence.
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