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Evening sentinel, Thursday, October 22, 1925 · page 7

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22 n ehe tries to get.
rm girl tutti llii:
‘od‘. she comes home to Dick.

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store For our worm to
ooh for mother lob.
d i oily

Briggs and goo: there
ill so. can't

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liter night. Dick lairnl irom
Mi” firigge that Gloria has gone
m6. ’
‘V (I0 ii\ “'1'"! THE HTORW

L RI; darkened the home.
‘ turned the key in her bedroom
2 door and lay down to try to so

it hasn't the kind of night for

’ A my of moonlight lay like a
‘ (droning finger on the wall be-
ldo tho bed. The darkness seemed
o‘bo filled with an expectant bush.
There was a high excitement to
Gloria. She swung her naked feet
over the side of the bed and crossed
the. zoom to the window.
'2 A large white moon hung low In
the sky like 41 Japanese lnnlorn. ‘ [I
turned the fluttering leaves of the
poplar trees to allver npanglos.
The world outside seemed unreal
”disturbing in its beauty. but the
lonely woman at the window hard»
onod her heart against its magic,
Silt: hot! n feeling that the only way
for her to go on was to harden her
heart against everything-mot only
against rhlngs. but against people--
2ngnlnst Dick. She must nevor let
the thought or him Into her. heart
again. silo told herself with a kind of
drill linger. And then she went on
thinking about him.

' Somewhere out there in the breath
'ing night. ho was. I

2 And suddenly Gloria. remembered
another night when she had stood M

another window and wondered where .

Dick wan. That had been long no
~f~on the night before ehe but! men
,‘ ‘ried him. She remembered how he
‘hud driven up in the middle of the
night and whistler! softly in the dark-
nose for her—~a low “Bob White"
Whistle. He had bogged her to come
own stairs for just a eecond to kiss
2hlm2—end she had refused.

"What a fool I has!" ehe told her-
.nelf; “and how glad I'd be now it he
wanted to kiss me! How glad i‘d

. . But there’s no chance of
radar again. . . ."

e tears that she had felt In her
dye ail dayuand in her heart-
overflowed. She dropped to her

it e on the door and laid her head
41de on the window sill and lobbed

Md‘then she seemed to hear a

whistle—a long. clear note foi-
io 03(1in a. shorter one. She old Mr

‘eoth and listened. . . . Was it
It's "Bob White" call?
it. no; it couldn't be. . . . And
n it came again!

. G ria. raised her head. Down on
lawn in the shadow of the trees

'as a darker shadow. it detached
it If and moved out Into the moon
light. it was Dick!

Gloria's heart leaped In her brealt.

”Dick!" she said. And there was

 

 

For they in that moment were oblividus to oil the world

eemccpi themselves.

a note at relief and sudden happiness
in her voice.

"Come down and open the door."
he said.

Without etepplnt to out on her
kimono or ellppero. CIlorlo (an names
the room abd‘down tbmush iiie
darkened houeo whom the moonlight
lay in hatche- here and there on the
wullo and floor.

She unlocked the__door no out
tered out‘onlo the porch. She stood
there in the mingled radiance of the
diatom moon and a street lamp tool
to front of the house. . . . some
passing neighbor-l Itopped to etue
eo eho threw horneit Into Dick'-
arma. . But neither nho nor Dick euw
them. For they in that moment
were oblivious to all the world . . .
except themselves. Dick‘e Irma
drew her no. He bent hie hood and
kissed her no if he never would let
her go again.

Then, abruptly he freed her.

"I thought you never were going
to kiss me again." (Morin :qu
hroathlesaly. "You said you never
would. you know!"

"We my a lot of thing: we don‘t
mean in thin world." Dick's voice on
swered her. He put his arm around
her and Wm her into the dark
house. ,

Hie hand groped for tile Ilghto.
Under their glare Gloria. saw that
hi1 dyes were almost'blaok In illl
haggard face. There were time
there that the lust weeks had writ
ten indelibly.

"We do a lot of things we don't
mean to do. too.” Gloria falter-ed

‘miie's’eome to carry on along like 2

bubbles. along I wove... . . Dick.
I've done A lot of things I haven‘t
meant to do. . . ."

Dick made a nature of finality
"Well. there‘s my use talking about
it now. " ho sold. "Spiller! milk, you
know. . . ."

lie de‘nt Into the living room.

Gloria followed him. "Have you
come home for good?" She was half
afraid to ask him that.

, And in an agony of uncertainty
she watched him nil hi: pipe. ‘
waiting tremulouely for hie answer

Slowly. as things seem to happen
in a dream. she new him “tirikeu
match blow out it: Home and In It
in the ash tray beside him.

"Well." he said dually. "it's thil
way. you see This Is the only piece
In the world where I fool at home:
somehow or othor . . . end i . . .
can't get used to being without you.”

Gloria leugh‘ed bitterly. "I’m :12

 

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break . . . ill that. in“? Ilie naked.
“The most deadly dull oi all things
. . . it habit?" i

Dick ehoolt his head. "No.”‘he
.eoid. "it etrlkoo deeper than that.
Glory. You‘ro my women. There
Ire a lot of men who can lore t
room of women it their time, but
I'm not one of them, l'm‘ the him!
of a fool who can hover care for
more than one woman, 1 sup
pong. . . ‘

"And om II that one woman on
you?’ Gloria naked. Her rye! um
wlde and eager. "A'ro’ you'lurel"

Dick loohod of her. lilo mouth

tightened.“ he took her into the “-2
hard ring of hill arms. “You uro." 2,
he answered. and his! voice was illicit

and tense. _
Gloria Ioulled bank in his. arms and
looked at him. “Titon I don't in

Jouious or Susan Briggs my more 2
and i‘ll Imp hoclllinc you about

her.‘ she. said.

Dick waited n moment b2f'ol'o he .
unuwried. "'lve on Idol that Show 2.

Bligge tippped’ worilldi;

night" he said then tempo. 22'1' 1

don't know whirl makes the limit:
so. out I do. somehow."

Gloria laughed. V"She'll be right
liim'o when you not it) tho odioo to
marrow mornilm. turn on urn-ill”. she
cried. "Unless she know: you’ve
come back to me!"

“i think she does know it. " Dick‘c
voice was grove. "but dont worry
about her. You know I novegcoi‘ed
about Susan Brim, don't you?" He
put his hands under hm elbows and
hold her away from him. .

"And I nevor cored about Stet:
\Vayiulru oithe. 1" Gloria lrohe in
shriily “We thought it all out,
Dick. these last two woeks. 1210 Wu
just a part of jazz to me like each
o “.2; and dance music i Woe hunt

in; for o thrill and he gave It to;

“10."...

11hr small tote with Its untllted

lips sober-ed on elm went ink "bio
told me all the think: i wantéd to
hear from 522011 . . . how beautiful I
has and how i could" knock him off
his pins. Oh, Dick, we women need
flattery and love . . . or lovemuk
in! in our Job. you know! To hero
uyoo men in love with us. .’ .0."
Digit laid his hand over her mouth.
"Ail' right. all right." he said impo
Gently "And that about ends stun
Iey Ii’oyburn and Susan Briggs or

good. doesn't it? . . . What I Will;
to know Just now Is whether you're‘

join: to be contented with me from
m 011?" . ‘
"Cm tented? I'm going to be huh

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