Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1939 — Page 21

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FRIDAY, AUG. 4, 1939 SERIAL STORY—

WAR AND A WOMAN

“By:BETTY WALLACE

. CAST OF CHARACTERS LINDA STORM—Fell in love with her best friend’s fiance. MARCIA KING—Navy Ayer. 0 2 A, JIMMY- COOPER — Naval flying instructor at Pensacola. GEORGE 'CAMERON—Linda’s fiance.

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Yesterday: Linda packs hurriedly for her trip home. The first plane she can get leaves from Mobile, 150 miles away. . Jimmy is to drive her there. Linda is afraid of what may happen in the three hours alone with him.

CHAPTER EIGHT

’ HE car hummed over the road. L Jimmy’s eyes were intent, his hands on the wheel very sure. The needle of the speedometer hovered at 55, went to 60. . . . Linda did not notice what they were passing. All she saw was his profile, so inexpressibly dear. Why had George’s face never affected her this way? It was only a face. “You and your dad are very close, aren't you?” Jimmy ventured at last., “If it—if it’ll help you to talk, I wish you would.” “There’s not much to say,” she answered. - “I—I guess it goes too deep.” “I lost my folks when I was 15,” he told her slowly. “I think I know what you're going through.” “Fifteen! Oh, I'm so sorry . . .” “I missed a great deal. Marcia’s father and mine were lifelong friends. He—he sort of adopted me,

afterward. I was in prep school, |

—and then at the Academy. And always there was the Kings’ home to go ‘back to—” : She realized, suddenly, that he was explaining, Explaining about Marcia. Queer, that it was that same element: of propinquity, of long acquaintance, which had drawn her to George. “My. — my fiance — has been a friend of Daddy’s a long time, too,” she was saying. “He.likes the same things Daddy does.” They were talking around the important’ point, she knew. Remembering the words she had flung at him last night, she went on, “Theyre both—both bitterly opposed to big

navies and armaments and all that.|

They think the common people of the country don’t want them. They think all that leads to war.” “The Services are very cliquish and headstrong,” he admitted. “No use saying we don’t take the attitude that war is inevitable.” “But that’s a defeatist attitude.

That brings it so much closer—just|

admitting that it must come!” The

color rose in her cheeks. “If youl:

could see Queensville, see all those . young boys learning the finer things.

Learning the aris of peace—how to |:

be ‘doctors and lawyers and scientists. . . . Realizing what a war would do to their lives—” ~ * 2 =» : SE felt the sense of their argument slipping away from her. Her head ached. “I guess it doesn’t matier what I think,” she said weary. . Jimmy glanced at his wrist watch. “We've lots of time. The plane doesn’t leave until 10:35 tonight.” “Would you like to stop and get some coffee?” . There was gnawing emptiness inside her, she realized. “That would be fine,” she told him gratefully. But even across the. little table in the roadside lunchroom, the ghost of Marcia stood between. them. Soon they were riding again. “A funny name, Turpentine Still,” she murmured drowsily, after a long time, as a sign swam into her vision. He didn’t answer. her eyes. She never knew how long she had slept, but when she awoke,

all warm and refreshed, her headl]

was on his shoulder. She sat up

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FLAPPER FANNY

_swiftly, a blush prickling under her ||

fair skin. His eyes smiled at her, wordlessly.

“You mustn’t stay with me until |

the plane comes,” she said in sudden panic. “Dump me at the airport. I'l be all right.” : “Do you think I'm anxious to be rid of you, Linda?’ He was trying to sound light. Her eyes dropped. “Marcia will be anxious about you. And there's the party—" 2 ” 8

- «F ISTEN, Linda.” All at once his tone had changed. His eyes had changed, and a. bunch of muscles at his jaw were taut. “Let’s cut out this pretending. We haven't much longer. Sooner or later we'll have to talk this out, and I—I've got to do it now! “No,” she said faintly. “No, Jimmy. You'll be sorry. You don’t mean it. You cant... > “I do mean it. And you mean it. A thing like this doesn’t happen more than once in a lifetime to a man and a woman. It’s happened to us. We didn’t go looking for it. It

just burst — like a bomb in our}.

faces.” “Bomb!” she choked. “Oh, stop! Stop!” : His hand on her shoulder was suddenly firm. “I'm not going to stop! We'll face this out! You love me, you know you do, you can't"deny it! What does it matter that we both made a mistake, that we both promised other people? Think of all the men and women in the world who walk into marriage blindfolded a don’t meet the right one until it’s too late. That shan’t happen to us! We ought to be glad—glad, I tell you—that we found out in time! We've got to be brave about it. It'll hurt Marcia. It'll hurt that George of yours. But it won’t hurt as much as if ‘we go on spinelessly and let two marriages smash up later.”

“My father,” she moaned faintly.| “He’s dying. Jimmy, Jimmy, I can't|

‘think ‘of myself now.” “I'm not asking you to think of anything but this, Linda. It’s a truce —g few days, a week, two weeks, two months. Whatever it takes. But remember, all the time youre home. Youre not George’s any more, you're mine! Do you hear, mine! I love you and I must have you!”

(To Be -Continued)

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