Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1938 — Page 8

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SERIAL STORY—

LOVE LAUGHS AT THE DOCTOR

By : Elinore Cowan Stone (Copyright, 1938, NEA Servis, Inc.)

First Chapter of a New Serial, “Easter Cruise,” .Page’ 16

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ISS WILCOX'S cheerful voice said, “Oh, here you are, Doctor. Just a minute, please.” Without backward look he turned and followed the nurse into the sickroom. Constance went slowly to her own room . . . Yet for a moment he had seemed as close to her as if he had held her in his arms. She had promised to ride with Hilda that afternoon. As she got into her riding clothes, she wondered what she could say to the other girl to help Derek. For after ‘all, Derek was only what circumstances had made him. .Constance went to find Hilda— along the upper gallery and descended to the first floor. The stairs made the descent in three, turns, with a moss-grown landing at eacn turn. Two people were standing on the gallery below her. In that suspended moment Constance realized, with a tearing sense of bereavement, how much she had really been hoping that seme time, in another brief inter- . val when he was not too hurried or too shy, Mark Rogers was going to tell her what she so much wanted to hear from him. Clinging to the lapels of Dr. Rogers’ coat, her eyes bright with tears, but laughing up into his face as only a very happy girl can laugh, stood Hildegarde 'fhorvald. As Constance poised there, unable for a moment to stir, Mark put his arms. about the tall glowing girl and kissed her gently: and Hilda said with a pulse in her lazy voice thal Constance had never heard there before: “I'm not good at waiting, Mark, and I'm not going to wait any longer. Now that it’s sure, I'm going to have Dad announce it tomorrow.” “And what about Derek?” he asked. “Derek?” Hildegarde laughed in soft amusement. “No one need worry about Derek. He will always know how to get what he wants out of life. What he really wants now—" 2 ”

” UT I can’t stand here listening,

Constance remembered. Perhaps she moved; for they both glanced up and saw her rooted there, white and stricken. Hilda drew herself quickly from Mark’s arms and called, “Connie, come down. There's something I can’t wait to tell you.” Please God, not now! Constance prayed. Not with both of them to see me. . been! She turned to run back @p the stairway. Perhaps her eyes blurred with the tears she could not check; or periaps the clumsy riding boots tricked her— The next thing she knew, she was huddled on something hard and cold—numb, and blindingly, sickeningly giddy. Somewhere near her Hilda's voice was saying. “Well, Mark Rogers, you complete fool—do ,you believe me now? Think how we must have looked to her, as if—oh, Mark, you don’t suppose she's—”" Then floating in space above her, Mark's voice, “For God's sake, Hilda, don’t you go hysterical on me

. . Oh, what a fool I've| ‘got a difficult—"

Hilda was always reading books about Tibet. . .. Hilda was going to marry a flying fool in Tibet who cut up cosmic rays for a living, or was it—? Her thoughts refused to arrange themselves; but there was one thing Hilda had just said— «1 wish you'd tell me,” she asked giddily, closing her eyes, “how anyone has a chance at a man she— can’t catch alone for—five minutes at a time?” Hilda giggled; and Constance found the giggle annoying. “Oh. it’s easy enough for you to laugh,” she said peevishly. “You don’t want him. . . And anyhow, he talks to you. But he never even looks at me. . . . Or if he does, only

as if I were something little and |

awfully funny on a slide.” “But, Connie dear,” Hijlda said, “you are little—and just now you are awfully funny. Don’t you recognize defense mechanism when you see it? . . Oh, you two! I don’t know which of you is the most unutterable idiot.” > Then, after a moment, - Hilda didn’t seem to 'be there any more. But there was still, Constance found, that warm, rough surface under her cheek; and there were arms about her—warm and close and comfortable. : > ” ”

ARK’S voice said, very close to her ear, “Connie, darling, this ought not to be necessary-—-you must have known from the beginning that I wanted to—hut it’s customary, I believe. Will you marry me, and give yourself something to laugh at for the rest of your life?” Her head was clearing ‘now . . . Of course this might all be really happening, but— “Darling,” she asked shakily into his coat collar, “would you mind just —pinching me—or something? . . . People do imagine things sometimes after they’ve bumped their heads, don’t they?” “I don't hold with pinching,” he said, “but—" : He did not pinch her; but he did kiss her very satisfactorily—on her wet eyes, and then on her lips. “What I don’t understand,” Constance said shakily, “is why you gidn’t do that weeks ago.” “With you doing Camilla Wynne and laughing up your sleeve at me every time I tried to talk sense to vou—and that beautiful blond boy hovering in the background? I'm not so sure, now—" ! “Then youre too blind to be practicing medicine. Derek? Why, for weeks Derek's been just—just another stand-in.” After another few moments he said briskly, “Do you know what I'm going to do now?” “Don’t tell me ” Constance cut in. “I've been expecting it. You're going to send me to bed—because I've

“You've got worse than that ahead of you—God help you!—if you're going to marry a—now what are you laughing ahout?” “Oh, nothing,’ Constance told him, “except—I was just wondering if I'm going to have to break my neck everytime 1 want a few minutes alone with you.”

THE END

(All events. names and characters In this story are wholly fictitious.)

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