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Call Me Liz

CHAPTER 21 |contradictory regrets and wishes story writers had created for their ELISE HAD TAKEN the taxi were/ still spinning through her own purposes.

that night. She had gone to the mind as they had that morning. If she only foved Russel and was

By Rene Ryerson Mart

n » n OVER AND OVER these thoughts

worthy of the approval. of his E Q e I 1 PSS . 1 and pack and then drive to the air-| father. If only she hadn't fallen in] TE ed In an endless, clrele antl

b port with’ Janice and. her father.|love With Red McFan. If only she | at moments. she thought she would

Together she and Arthur Con- hadn't mailed the letter to Russei 80 Off the deep end. ; don had stood at the end of the! saying that she would marry him, At lunch time she moped into the runway with ‘a chill dawn wind} If «a» If... 10 .,. {women's room that opened off the whipping around them and watched| Only with this difference: she | laboratory. In the mirror above the the plane carrying Janice fade into! knew now irrevocably that she had | lavatory she €aw her face pale and the still dim sky. |to accept things as they were. She|sallow looking from loss of sleep, It was dn the drive back home had hurt Russel deeply once by re- [with great dark circles under her that Mr. Condon had spoken to[fusing to marry him. She could not | eyes, and was so miserable she didn't her about what was really worry- repeat it again, when she had ac-|care how she looked. Listlessly she ing him, He told her of his recent tually #ven her promise, | applied a little lipstick and turned concern about Russel and that he "oan pis from the mirror. YES, SHE was resigned to the| She wasn't hungry; she -didn't had turned out so badly. He sighed’ want to eat. She knew if she went heavily: | : | into the cafeteria the smell of the ann l. + + but that did not stop the| (4 would only nauseate her. And “‘LL~I'LL NEVER be able to ache in her heart,*or the wild flut-| she was too restless to stretch out forgive myself if either one of the tering of forbidden ecstasy there on the couch and rest. boys is hurt seriously.” {when she thought what might have | "tw “Hurt serlously—" The words been if she had had the sense to, SUDDENLY SHE remembered a

brought the feeling of panic back face her real feeling about Red Mc-| oll of pictures she had left at a

necessity of going through with it

to Elise. Fan in time. | camera shop to be developed. They

After a moment she said uncer-' Easy to realize now that she had | had probably been ready days betainly, “You mustn't blame your-/peen attracted to him physically |ore, but she had forgotten about self for that, you know. You meant! from almost the first moment they |them. She'd go by and get them. It it for the best.” met. She remembered the feeling |Would be something to do, Arthur Condon looked at her|she had had the night they first! The snapshots as she had. exthoughtfully. “I've sometimes! danced together. : : {pected were ready for her. She thought, Elise, ‘that Russel is in| And the aching pity she had | looked at them on her way back to love with you. Now, I don’t mean known the evening Russel and she | the laboratory on the bus. There to pry—it’s your affair and his, had found Red drunk in Tonelli's{ Were several good pictures among but I want you to know that noth- after Jackie had thrown him over, |them. One of herself smiiing ing would make me happier than] " lIstraight into the camera. And an-

to have you and Russel marry,” A

| BUT SHE HAD been too proud, “ther of Russel 2.8 8 f | Elise looked at that one a long THIS ON TOP of her sudden and|?"d too snobbish to face it then, time. His fair hair brushed back shattering realization that it ‘was|1r¥ing to fool herself into thinking from a straight meticulous part on Red McFan she loved instead ofthat she hated and despised him one side of his head, his deep-set Russel was more than Elise could|and resented his presence. The re-|thoughtful eves, the thin lean stand. It was all ‘she could do to sentment at least had been real, an | Planes of his face. hold back hysterical tears. |instinctive resentment because he | 3 8.0 “Mr. Condon—please—please—" |had so easily upset the plan of her| SHE LOOKED, at it and sighed Of course he misunderstood her life. {and wondered for the millionth reaction. But what a thin disguise her con- time why she hadn't fallen in love “There—there—" he said con- [stant quarreling with him had been ¥ih him instead of Red McFan tritely. “I shouldn't have talked! for the wild love beating in her Russel Was everyuung most Women about it now. I know you're wor-| heart. would want : ried.” | For she loved him the way she | She took the pictures back to the If he really knew the truth, Elise! had dreamed of loving Russel Jaboratory with her and tossed them

had thought in stony despair! the way she had wanted to love into the drawer of her work table and forgot about them

8.8.8 Russel, With all the breathless pal- ot 1 ‘sg ¢ TWO WEEKS and now staring up | pitation and the passionate yearn- Somer ing Happesed that afters at the calendar, thinking back into|ing which she had tried to tell her-| Hoon hat pus Suem completely. out the unhappy wretched days and self in the sophisticated way of of ber mind, hours that had passed, the same)young moderns was just a myth|

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