Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1938 — Page 34

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LOVERS AWEIGH

By BETTY WALLACE

CAST OF CHARACTERS JUDY ALCOTT — Admiral’'s daughter. She faced a choice between two Navy suitors. : DWIGHT CAMPBELL—Ambitious lieutenant. He faced a choice between his wife and duty. : JACK HANLEY — Flying sailor. faced a test of a patient love. MARVEL HASTINGS—Navy wife. faced the test of being a good sailor.

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Yesterday — Marvel arrives and soon after the ship goes out, leaving Judy to explain to Marvel why Dwight could not be with her!

CHAPTER FIVE

HE got into her car and drove to the Coronado Hotel. asked at the desk for Miss Hastings, and was told that her suite was on the fifth floor. “Suite!” said Judy to herself. “She would have a suite!” When she knocked at the door, there was no answer. She wondered for a moment if Marvel had gone out. But she decided that was impossible. She probably was sulking. Maybe she thought it was Dwight, rushing around in person after he’d hung up on the phone. “But if she had an ounce of sense, she’d know he’s on the ship! be she knows it’s me . heart sank. was “infinitely distasteful, but she had to do it. She had promised. She rapped on the door again. This time there was the sound of someone moving, and in another ore Marvel's voice came. “Who it?” os Judy Alcott. * May I come

The door was flung open. Marvel in gold satin pajamas, her red hair a fiery glory of curls, stood there. Her face was cold, unfriendly. Behind her, Judy saw a hotel maid folding a black eloud of tulle. An evening dress. There was an open steamer trunk, with a drawer pulled out, and clothes on the hangers. Judy stepped into the room, closing the door behind her. Marvel's face did not change. She simply stood there, waiting. It was not going to be easy. Judy felt the beat of her pulse in her wrists, and a strange little dizziness behind her eyes. Why should she be the one to argue with Marvel on Dwight’s ~account? It was no affair of hers. And yet she had promised. And she would promise anything, she knew, hating herself, when it was Dwight’s- slightly husky, altogether thrilling voice that asked her. s 2 2 “ WIGHT phoned me,” Judy said, walking to a soft chair and sitting down. Marvel moved across the room, took the bench before | the vanity table. Her reflection in the mirror made two red-haired, | cold-faced girls whom Judy had to face. Judy went on, steadily, “He asked me to come here. He said you weren't accustomed to the Navy's disconcerting habit of ordering people off to sea. He simply had to go. .Duty. There was no way out. The skipper’s wife—Mrs. Lane—phoned me, too. She said she couldn’t come tonight, and told me probably no one else would come.” i She leaned forward. “Oh, Miss Hastings, I know how you feel You've just gotten in. You want to be with him. You feel as though he] could have managed to stay with you. But I know better. In the | Navy, no one counts. It's only] duty—why, I've known men whose) wives were in the hospitals, having! babies—" | But Marvel's eyes did not soften. She said, in a cool little voice, “He could have stayed if he had really wanted to!” “No, no. He couldn’! understand!” Marvel said, “I understand well enough! Surely it’s not a matter of life and death—not a matter of national emergency.” Marvel stood up. Her green eyes flashed. “It was very good of my fiance to ask another girl—a girl he’s been as friendly with as he has been with you—to come here and soothe me. But I will not be soothed, do you understand? I'm not accustomed to being kept waiting for any one! Least of all for al man! He knew I was coming, he might have arranged things so that I would not be left alone like this. He didn’t think it was important enough, that’s all! I won't put up with it, I don’t have to!” She looked at the maid, who was carrying an armful of silken lingerie from a dresser drawer. * “I'm packing, as you can see. Tell that to Dwight when he comes back! Tell him I've left!” “But Miss Hastings—you can’t do that! It’s not fair to Dwight! He didn't leave you deliberately. He had to go. You mustn’t act as if it were a personal choice, as if he wanted to hurt you—" 2 #" 2 ARVEL'S eyes were on Judy's face with a queer, steady scrutiny. Judy could feel the blood coming up in her cheeks. “Just what business is this of yours, anyway?” Marvel asked with deliberate rudeness. “Dwight asked me to come here. That’s all,” Judy bit her lip. Marvel laughed and then said slowly: “Youre in love with him, aren’t you?” Judy leaped to her feet. Her face was stinging with color. “I'm- sorry

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you,” she said. “I'll go.” “No! Don’t go!” Marvel was standing, too, her green eyes narrowed. “You and I might just as] well understand each other. I would not have objected to Dwight’s absence if he had been decent enough to come here and explain himself. I'm not a complete idiot, you know! But to call me up, casually, as if I were a servant! To hang up on me! And then—to send Judy walked toward the door, her head high. 8 = =

ARVEL said: “You can run away, if you like, but that doesn’t change anything! I'm leaving not so much because he was ordered to sea, but because from the moment I stepped off that airliner I knew the truth! He’s been going out with you. He's been making love to you. You're in love with him, and you hate me. Well, I give him to you, do you hear? I'm going, and I'm never coming back. Let him marry you! Let him stay in the Navy and be poor and go to sea and do all the other grubby, stupid things you Navy people do! Naval society!” She lay shrilly. “You're dowdy, | ¥0 ‘dumb, and he’s blind!

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