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By BETTY WALLACE

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

: Yesterday: In a heart-touching scene, © Judy bids farewell to Diane, wonders if all this is worth while in the Navy. But « her mother assures her it is, that Diane would have done it all ever again.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

ACK HANLEY had been in Sick J Officers’ Quarters. a month

now. His arm had knit beauti-

could sit up in bed, but he hadn’t “been in a wheelchair yet. Comm. Sloane believed in doing things

slowly. He had said, “You want to fly again, don’t you? Take it easy.” . Judy, who spent much of each day there in the white room, was happier than she had ever been before. They talked of their marriage. “A week after you get out, whenever that is!” She wouldn't hdve a big wedding, like Marvel’'s. But she'd have all that mattered. Her father, giving her away. Her mother. Her friends she had grown up with, on stations all over the world. For their honeymoon, there would be a motor trip, and a visit in Virginia with Diane. The memory of Bill Bell still lived with Jack. Bitterly, sometimes. “He had a child. Maybe it would have been better if I—” “No!” Judy said. “No, no, no! You mustn't talk that way. There must have been some reason— something we can’t see. You'll do wonderful things for the service.” One afternoon when she was getting ready. to drive to the hospital, Magda Hamilton came in. “Just got back from Bremerton yesterday. The Texarkana and the destroyers and everybody will be in tomorrow.” She sat on the sofa. “We—we were shocked when the news came about Bill Bell, That's the: breaks, I guess.” Then she said, “Have you heard what happened up there?” Judy said, “No, I haven't. What?” “Your friend, Mrs. Campbell,” said Magda. “She didn’t come at first. Tommy said Dwight was almost out of his mind. Kept wiring her. Then she showed up, a week ago.” 3 » ot #” UDY was impatient. Her interest in Dwight Campbell and Marvel

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“Gee, what’ll your dad say to your gettin’ in so late? Maybe this is a good time to tell him my intentions are serious.”

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had their lives to live, she had hers. She looked at her wristwatch. “I don’t want to be late. Jack waits for me. You know how dull S. O. Q.

is.” : | Magda said, “She came in a yacht, | with a party of friends. That man - we met at her house-warming— Cary Tennant. If was his yacht.” She shot Judy a speculative glance. “To make a long story short, she and Dwight had an awful row. In! public. On the Texie, to be exact. She said she was going back on the yacht, the way I heard the story,| and Dwight said it was a disgusting | way for a married woman to carry | on. Something like that.” Magda stood up. “I don’t want to keep you. Just wanted to say that everybody knows she’s left him, and we're all wondering if he’ll batch it over in that modern mansion of hers, or stick aboard ship.” Judy found no words. She and Magda went out together. . ~ Judy turned the key in the ignition, stepped- on the starter furiously. What difference did it make if Dwight and Marvel had quarreled? She had forgotten Dwight Campbell was on earth. But had she, asked a small voice inside her. . Had she really forgotten? Or had she only been too glad to sink her torment into the ready balm of Jack Hanley’'s love? She had worried about him, been grateful he had come through alive. It was “natural that her pity for him should whisper to her wayward heart, trap her into believing it was love.

UT it was love. It yas peaceful, and sweet, and real.

would marry him and have a good life.

But the image she had tried hard to banish forever rose. again. Just the sound of his name could bring it back. “No!” she said out loud. And then she found that she was driving past the white house where he “had lived with Marvel. It was not on the way to the hospital. How had she gotten here? Furiously, she turned the car, almost careening over a curbstone. She drove swiftly to the hospital. ~ Jack had been reading a book she had brought him, He laid it aside. “You're late!” “You weren't reading! You were just looking.” “I can’t help it,” he said. “I count the minutes. The clock seems to stand still. You try lying in bed, with nobody but a dumb nurse—" “She’s a pretty nurse.” “She hurts when she starts after those bandages.” Then he asked, “What kept you?” “Magda Hamilton, Bremerton.” “Oh.” “Gossip, that’s all.” She would not tell him about Dwight and Marvel. She would not. And yet, somehow, the words were saying themselves. “Marvel Campbell arrived in a yacht. Cary Tennant’s yacht.” “The slick, dark-haired chap?” ~ Yes. And Marvel and Dwight had an argument. Right on the ship, the way Magda told it. Tom probably told her. The fools!”

‘JACK leaned back among the piloJ lows. “Those two were due for stormy weather. It won't help his ‘personal reputation tile any to have stuff like that in it.” Then he said, “So that's why you're—you're—" “I'm what?” she asked quickly, challenge in the way she said it. 1 was Just repeating meaningless

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