Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1938 — Page 20

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

.. Yesterday: Judy learns that Jack wants & transfer and the same day she sees . Marvel with a man “friend” from Los ‘ Angeles in a restaurant. She thinks ' painfully of Dwight.

CHAPTER NINE

N a moment, Judy had recovered W her equilibrium. She sipped her ~.coffee and said, “Oh, goodness, even % .an engaged girl has the right to ~~ lunch with another man. We're ~ both; acting as though we'd found . “her [in a secret love nest. Come, come! It's probably an old friend, gn nig...” bs e’s eyes were twinkling. “Of ~ course!” she said. “And Marvel's not flirting with him. Not her!” _ © “She can’t help flirting. She's the © kind who makes eyes at anything male, from 8 to 80!” | '. They laughed together, but Judy | “exercised all her self-control not - _to look again at the engrossed two | sitting at the other table. At last! .. they finished with the meal and . went out. Marvel had not seen! "them. Judy was glad of that. Gwid 8 ” » ~FP BEY drove back. Judy dropped £ Diane off at the bungalow and went home. To her amazement, ° Jack Hanley’s car was parked in ~front of her house. He was in the living room, talking to her mother. When Judy came in, he rose to his feet. His eyes sought hers. * “I came to tell you I'm leaving,” ~ he said. Her mother mumbled =something and went out, leaving them alone. Judy said, “Diane told me you had requested Pensacola. =But Jack, why?” . “You know why,” he said quietly. She tried to be light about it.| “If you stayed here, and kept after | me, there's always the. chance I'd | change my mind.” v ~ “No, I've decided you'll have a chance to miss me if I go,” he © said. z -. “But I've missed you already. | 3 You haven't been near me in _. weeks!” : .. “Have you really missed me?” \ “Yes.” There was a silence. She felt an unaccountable embarrassment. He - was looking at her steadily. His dark eyes were grave. His hair was

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! rumpled, as if he had been running | “his fingers through it. For the first time since she had known him, Judy thought swiftly, “He’s so nice look“ing!” And she knew that his going would leave a hole in her life. Just| his absence of the last few days had -shown her that. =- He said gently, “Judy, I can't stay here and see you unhappy. I love you, I want to marry you. But if -you don’t feel the same way about me, the most sensibl e thing is to =cut it short.” ~ “Yes, I suppose it is.” “Oh, Judy, won't you come to ‘=Pensacola with me? We could be married here—go away from everything that would remind you—" He --hadn’t meant to say that, she ! sensed swiftly. It had simply burst i out from the deep current of his ~Jlove. She touched his hand. “Don’t ~ ask me again, Jack. Ah, I know how you feel, and I'm honored ; ~ that—" ) "He laughed harshly. “Don’t, Judy. That only makes it worse.” £5 2 2 EJ . H,” she said passionately, “I — wish I could! But I can't. And it wouldn't be sporting, to use .,/you for—"

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“Arbuckle always likes to wait and see what the other fellow’s going to bring out.” .

won't. There are lovely girls at Pensacola! You'll forget all about me in no time.” “I haven't forgotten in five years,” he said. # She wanted to cry. But she kept ' ~the tears back bravely. “When are you leaving?” bY © “Tomorrow.” “Transport?” “No, I'm driving.” “That's a long trip.” Then there was nothing else to say, so she gave him her hand in * farewell. The closing 6f the door . was so final, so definite, that she ~ wanted suddenly to run after him, ‘to shout that he mustn't go. But ~ she couldn’t do that. She stood in the quiet living room, and now |- the tears came. Why hadn’t she "been able to love Jack? He was ~ everything any girl in her right mind would want. Even Diane had "said he was the best bet on the lot. “But the wayward heart cried for p eone else. Someone who didn't ! even know she was alive—except as "a convenience. Dwight Campbell! “Only a fool would go on hoping and dreaming. He was wrapped up in that redhaired enchantress.

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5 PTER a while Judy went up- . LA stairs to bathe her hot face and swollen eyes. It was all over. Jack would find sonteone else in Pensa- ” 1a. 37 - e was awakened from the fitful ~ sleep into which she had fallen by her mother’s hand on her shoulder. “Judy! You have callers!” “Callers?” She sat ‘up, rubbed “her eyes. “Who is it?” Her mother said gently, “Dwight Campbell and his fiancee.” . ~ “Dwight? What can he want?” She changed quickly. She made her mouth red with lipstick, and ‘put rouge on her cheeks. When she rreeted Dwight and Marvel, she was ng and casual, “This is a sur-

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