Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1941 — Page 15

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YESTERDAY: Ann is coming home. The audition was a failure. She is coming back to her Kent. April decides to confess, goes to take Kent to the train. He has changed. He kisses her again— but this is an entirely different kiss. At last he asks: “Why did you do it, April? To annex another scalp?”

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

APRIL FELT HER fingers freezing, and after awhile she realized her feet were numb and soggy wet from standing in the snow back at the garage. : “you have it all wrong, Kent,” she whimpered, much as Nip, the puppy, did when he was hurt. “No, I think not.” Kent's words chipped like icicles. “You stumbled on a situation which amused you and made the most of it.” “Please, you're not being fair.” “Fair?” He gave a short laugh and went on, “You fooled me, of course. Your voice and Ann’s are alike. You wore her coat. You had some diabolical way of discovering where we had our favorite outing.” “youll understand, if youll let me explain.” He ignored this and with a quick, hurtful grip on her arm, demanded, “Where’s Ann?” “Ann—she went away.” - By some miracle, April stopped short. Ann didn’t want Kent to know about the audition.

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“Ann didn’t know you were coming home. She was on. a little— vacation. They're all away, Mother and Dad and Ann.” “When will Ann be back?” “Soon—oh, very soon,” April's teeth were clicking her tongue numb, like the rest of her. “Tell me, how—when did you know I was April?” For one smgll word spoken kindly! For one second when that harsh mask on his face lifted! Then she could speak to him out of her heart. 2 2 2

BUT NOT KENT. He repeated her words, “When did I know?” He

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ing her. “I'll say this for you, April, you'd make a great actress. I think you've missed a career. You've wasted your talents being the town belle. How is it you haven't heard the call of Broadway or Hollywood?” The red temper under the yellow hair bsgan to rise in self-defense. “We can skip that,” April said. “Naturally, I'm. not proud of the things I said about you,” he spoke grufly. “I apologize.” “Oh, think nothing of it.” If he could. be brittle, so could she. “Just hurry on with the story of how you discovered my true colors.” “If it hadn’t been for the shock ‘of that accident at camp, you couldn’t have fooled me, blind or not. Maybe my nerves were on edge; maybe I wasn’t clicking. But looking back, I can see where I should have known who you were right from the start. The trick you used to get out of the date the first night I was home. The clumsy way you built the fire on the hill. The crazy speeding you did on the drive home last night. It was Aunt Elizabeth Carter who gave the final clue. Nq wonder you didn’t want to face her.” : “And what did Aunt Elizabeth say?” She was fighting to keep the break out of her voice. Kent snorted and at that minute he wasnt unlike his great aunt. “She said,” he began, “a girl like Ann Burnett with such a Dresden doll face and that head of yellow curls must iove you a great deal to burn her fingers over a barbecue.” April saw the clock on the dashboard. Fifteen minutes to train time. She pushed her numb foot on the gas pedal. It didn't seem to matter any more whether she kept up the bravado. “I see,” she said. “Then your Aunt Elizabeth hates me, too.” Kent looked away. “No,,as a matter of fact, she admired your spirit. But never mind what she. thinks. 1'll'be on that train in a few minutes and there's one thing yowll have to answer to me about.” “Yes.” : . “What possessed you to to me that you were Ann? ” » ”

APRIL STARTED the car. It jolted, wheels spinning, churning, so that for’ a minute it seemed as if it would never pull away. ‘Once safely moving again, April was so cold, so near the breaking point, that she couldn’t think clearly. The only thing that was sharp in her

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mind was Ann’s letter. Ann was coming home to her beloved Kent. She said the first thing that floted through her brain. “I did it because I felt sorry for you.” The one thing he hated! Pity, sympathy. But when she tried to stammer a further explanation, he cut her short. “Never mind,” he said, “I think we understand each other perfectly.” The roadster chain-clattered across the bridge, neared the track siding and the station. There was something else. Something important that had made April see Kent tonight. In the daze of fast falling snow, in the nightmare of her own cold and feverishness, she tried to grasp it. “Kent,” she began, I've done, I'm sorry.” No, that wasn’t it. That wasn’t what she’d meant to say. In the fog of her thoughts, the name “Ann” leaped out again. “It’s Ann!” she cried. “Ann! Promise you'll never tell Ann that I let you make love to me, Kent. I couidn’t bear for her to know. I'd die rather than hurt her. You've got to promise.” Nothing else was of any importance. She felt the tiny hat slipping off her head; she was sure her hands were frozen stiff to the steering wheel; but otherwise, she was lost in the white confetti shower that ‘danced . before her eyes. “No, I'll never tell Ann,” she heard Kent say. “What happened between us, is over, dead, wiped out. It’s as if it never happened.” “Thank you, Kent. ‘Thank you.” “I love Ann,” Kent wsfi saying.

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