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2. THE EUGENE REGISTER. QUART) LEAP YEAR BRIDE i Gambn BftOOKfTUN W1 )U CHAPTER XXXVI i N I'llIIXIPri looked up from! thn tviiowrirnr. "WeVft pen Ht 1 ili thing for two hours, f Brenda," i jfcoiniJluined, "and I haven't even rttten half a paye!" I !the typewriter table Btood a few ( from the davenport in the Hvine KMii of Brenda Vnil's apartment. A mr nmdo of a Chinese vnse with taffeta shade illuminated the young isip's face, Brenda Vail turned. She had been adding beforo the open window and sir she reBted one hand against the lafement. It was a pone that was soiminff as Brenda Vail very well nw. Her figure was silhouetted jfjnst the black sky. She wore her irorite costume 1 pajamas. They ere made with trousers of black i IT ft and a tunic of gold brocade. Hiss Vail shrucged impatiently. What is the use.'" 6he said. "I ST told you that when I am out the mood I simply can not work. m tired. My head aches. This rying to build up action, to plan atrnnces and exits ob, it is mad ailing!" "I'm sorry!' Phillips tone was pdlogetic. "I didn't know you rafen't feeling well. It's only that Mi know we promised ourselves r'd have the first act done this rttk. You should have aent me way long ago " ;Ho nrose but the woman put out hand to stop him. ?No," she snid. "Don't go. Stay ere and talk to me end mnybe the eod wilt feel better. I am as nnx oa to have the work finished as ov are. A little rest and perhaps IT be able to get at it ngain." She sank to the davenport. Her Itian head was pillowed against a ushion of jade satin. J'Eit here beside me," she went n-O'You're comforting, Dan. I feel 'though I'd known you a long 'hJIe, yet what is it? Only about no weeks. Most of that time we've en talking nboitt gunmen 'and gnng tefs and other terrible creatures, 'alk to me about something else, n't you?" He dropped to the seat beside her. Wouldn't you rather I'd go?" he lid uneasily. "If you're tired, rest i what you need." For an instant the gray-green yes met Dnn's. "If you go I'll be maly," Brenda Vail said softly. "And -am lonely so much of the time!" Phillips smiled. "That's art odd bing for you to sny You have so lany friends. IWnda. Why. you're de?lnst person in thp world I'd ex act to he lonely." "ou think so? Ah. thn you are otf as clever as I thought. Inli esa comes from the heart. What a you know of a woman's heart?" "Why why I don't know. I dont pend much time rending those love rn columns if that's what you lean. I've always had the idea ten and women are really pretty mcli alike." Miss Vail leaned her bead back. "Mn and women are alike," Bren a jVnil said slowly. "And yet they re' different. Knob of us. I stip ose, is doomed to much loneliness, t .-Ik only when fl roan or woman leets another who really mider tands that the loneliness is lifted. hit there I have myself for com any all day. I want you to talk ow." Phillips smiled. He looked very oyish and very attractive when he tailed. "I'm sorry, but honestly tie1 only thing I've been thinking f for a week is this play. Do you sallv understand what this means or me, Brenda? Do you? Why, 'd.becun to think I was sunk in Ha place forever! I thought I was aver to have a chance. It was the watest piece of luck in the world 5r me when you came here!" 8he was plpased. "And I think it rat luck for me, too.' she said. "Tell ie what are you planning to do if nr play is a great success?" 'Oh. I hadn't thought that far hend yet, Hememher, the first act m't finished! But I'd like to go to aw York and know some of the eople you've talked about. I'd like po to the places you've told me bout.' That must be the life New pork with the theaters and the peo 1 who write nnd net nnd paint!" "It is a great life" the woman Mured him. "And it is want yon hou Id have. Dan. For to write you last reallv know life. You must av experiences adventures if you rant to call them that. You must aa something of the world. Oh. n have talent I am sure of that, (at you need to develop it." .''it's wonderful of you to be go neonrngi7ig.' J'Ynu must let nothing stand in ht way of your work," she told him. Nothing do you understand? You Mst go to New York. You must ravel. You must have freedom and LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Timothy J. Jackal By HAROLD GRAY; you must be with those who understand." 'I'll do anything you say," ba sured her eagerly. "Ah you are a dear boy!" Dan loked at his watch. "Why. It's almost midnight!" he exclaimed. "I had no idea it waa so lata. Cherry will be aura I've been tnur- dured." "But this isn't late!" "It is for Wellington." Dan told her with a grin. "Anyhow, I'll have to dash along. Are we going to be able to work tomorrow?" Tm not sure. Miss Vail told him. "You can telephone ma at noon. "I'll call you about 1 o'eloek," he Sromised, "And I bona you'll feel etter in the morning. I he door closed after him. Brenda Vail crossed the room with a de termined stride. She took another cigarette from the box, lighted it and dropped to tne davenport. "He's a fool," she said to herself "but useful and amusing!" Cherry sat on her knees survey, ing the atretch of yellow cotton cloth. It was spread on the floor before her and laid on in curious fashion were oddly shaped pieces of yenow tissue paper. There were lines in Cherry's fore hend. "Now I wonder." she aaid aloud, "if that can be right?" Since there was no one to answer the question went without reply. Unerry took up the scissors and De gun to cut around the paper pattern. She was gathering up the last of the strins of yellow cloth when a key sounded in the lock. Cherry scrambled to her feet. "Goodness. Dan. I didn't know ft was bo late: The young man looked down at the floor. 1 Say. what's going on here?" he demanded. "What in the world ? "Cherry laughed. She held up a long piece or ciotn. My new ran outfit!" she aaid. '"How do you like it?" "Well, It doesn't look like much to ma. What's the idea?" "It doesn't look like much to ma, either," Cherry admitted. "But wait until I'm through with it! It'a go ing to be a dress, Dan. You didn't know I was a modiste, did you?" "Do you .think you can make a dress out of that?" The girl nodded. "Mrs. Moreau promised to help me," she told him. "Of course I don't expect it to be very beautiful, but the color's pretty. Don't you think so ? It'll do to wear around the house. Besides, I wanted to see if I could really do it. Tho patterns and cloth together only cost 51.75." "You're getting to be a miser." Dan told her grinning. "Pretty soon you'll be wanting me to wear home made shirts and crocheted neckties." "I'll have to learn to crochet first. Are you hungry? Dinner's almost ready. I can have it on the table in 10 minues." "No hurry," Dan aaid. "What do vou sav we so over and nsr a call on the Caseya tonight? He waa asking last week when we could come over. "Oh. I'd like that!" the girl said eagerly. "But aren't you going to work on the play?" Dan shook his head. Re came over to where Cherry stood and took her chin In his hand. "I de cided to knock off for a while," he said. "It's been a long time since we've had an evening to ourselves. You don't mind having me around, do you?" "There's nothing I'd like better! It has been lonely here this last week, but of course, I know what it meana to you to finish the play. How's it going, Dan." He frowned. "Not coming aa fast as I hoped it would," he said, "hut of course, I don't know much about these things. I guess If you didn't have anything else to do but sit down and write you could turn out plays and short stories in no time." "Some day you'll be able to do that." "Well I hoke bo! This working nil day on a news beat and then trying to keep up with Brenda Vail nishts isn't so easy. Anyhow, let's forget about the play tonight, I don't want to even think about it" "Then we'll forget it!" They sat down to dinner. 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