Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1939 — Page 18

By LOUISE HOLMES. /

: CAST OF CHARACTERS . SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles and dreamed of being heautiful. DICK TREMAINE—He liked Susie’s waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. JEFF BOWMAN—His chief concern ‘was to make Susie as beautiful as she wanted to be.

_' Yesterday: Dick had once dated Susie “as a jest. Now ‘she recalls the day sor- ' yowfully, wishes she might have been beautiful just for him.

CHAPTER FOUR

“ CHE had bought an evening dress S for Dick's party, bright blue, “moire taffeta on the outside, defi- : nitely sateen underneath, It was "long and extremely backless and ~ sported two red velvet poppies on the bosom. She bought high-heeled red sandals. Actually they made her t ‘feet appear pretty and small but : they hurt terribly.

her hair done, marcelled into a frizz. She had her nails manicured, very pink, very shiny. She bought bath powder and a brilliant shade

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of lipstick. : : By Saturday night Susie was In RX a dither. It took her two hours. to dress. She dropped everything, upset everything. The thin silk hose were a bit short when she carefully 3 pulled them over her well-rounded | $ knees. The dress was more snug. 2 than she had thought it in the shop, but the long skirt was beautifully slenderizing. : Susie’s mirror said unflattering things concerning bright blue with her sallow skin. She airily denied - the accusation and put on more ' rouge. Her mouth, cherry red to : the far corners, was enormous. This, too, she refused to admit. It was no night for faultfinding. ¥ Never would Susie forget the mo- { ment when Dick arrived. Nothing that happened afterward could quite blur the rapture of that moment.

2 2 2 : 1 USIE always remembered what

he said. “Lady, the carriage waits.” She had Biggled hysterical1

i y. F % The carriage was a roadster, long and low and swanky. Susie tripped on her long dress and literally fell into the seat. The top was down and the night air blew some of the frizz out of her hair, leaving dismally unmanageable strands. On the drive to the fraternity house she laughed too much, talked too t much, was jumpy as a toy balloon. All at once Susie was stricken with

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fear. What went on at a fraternity dance? She hadn't an idea. Ex- ; hilaration dissolved and with it L went confidence. 2 “I've never been to a nice party,” she said to Dick. “Maybe I shouldn’t have come.” | . “You'll get along all right,” he| ; assured her. “I'll see that you do.”! He sounded a bit grim. | He took her to the dressing room 4 and, as she entered, the chatter ! ceased. Girls everywhere in slim satins, soft chiffons, their heads coifed smoothly, their eyebrows daintily arched. Some of the girls ‘ . turn their backs as Susie uncertainly took off the spring coat. She heard a suppressed = snicker. Several of the more kindly inclined said, “Hello, Susie,” and she stammered an answer. Then the girls left Susie alone, she heard the ripple of their laughter on the ‘stairs. i Then came Dick’s voice from somewhere beyond the door. “ ‘Bout ready, Susie?” After that the party was a series of vague impressions, young men whom she had served with waffles + being ostentatiously polite, girls who ignored her, dress too tight, shoes too tight, Dick always there. i At 12 she had said, “Take me home, Dick.” He looked at his wrist watch. “ “Just a little longer, Susie.” There was a white line of fatigue around | Dick’s young mouth. He smiled gallantly. At 2, descending the stairs, again enfolded in the spring coat, she saw one of the older boys talking to Dick in a low tone. Distinctly she heard the words, “kiss her” and Dick’s angry exclamation. Bewildered, she saw Dick tear the pledge pin from his vest. The older boy backed away, refusing the pin, laughing, saying, *‘Okay—you don’t nesd to . get sore.” None of it made sense to Susie.

2 ” 2 ITTING comfortably in the «J roadster beside a strangely preoccupied escort, Susie pondered over the incident in the hall Obviously the upper classman had not wanted Dick to kiss her. And Dick had been angry at the interference. Tremblingly, Susie waited. At last she glanced at him from under her heavy brows. “Why didn’t he want you to kiss me?” [is she asked, rather ingeniously for one unversed in subtleties. “Those guys had better their own business.” < What Susie had answered still Jay like a scorching coal in her| i heart after four years. She had . said, “Well—if you want to and— and if I don’t care—.” Unkissed, hungry for love, flaming with it—. . Dick stopped the car at Susie’s shabby rooming house. “Look,” he said, “I don’t like fellows who kiss every -girl they take out. I think t's common and not very gomplimentary to the girl.” : “I've never been Kissed,” said wistfully. Dick still hesitated. “Would it make you feel better about tonight if I kissed you?” he asked. She gazed at him, not understanding. “If you knew I'd: never take you out again would you want me to kiss you?” Susie raised her lips and he kissed her. It was a quick, reluctant kiss, but in that instant, Susie’s lonely, thwarted heart gave itself into Dick’s keeping without thought of consequences, without question. “Thank you,” she said softly. “Oh, please don’t——" Dick took her to the door, thanked her for. going to the party with him, said he'd be in for a waffle the following day, and hurried back to his car. He came in for a waffle the next day, but by that time Susie had learned the bitter truth. Her hurt ‘was so deep and so wide that the bud of love might have been ‘nipped had Dick been anyone ex-

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