The Beaverton enterprise., June 21, 1940, Page Page 4, Image 4

BEAVERTON
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Friilav, June 21, 1940
ENTERPR ISE, Beaverton, Oregon
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gently Into the landing. Gay dropped ed, then asked. “ Will you be afraid
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the paddle and held on to the plank­ to stav here alone until Kate re­
ing with one hand while she reached turns?”
for the rope. Wouldn’t anything that
Her quick glance quest-ored him
she might say be too much or too j
“ That was Ralph F'-rague up at
little? They hadn't merely drifted the store. They need a doctor at
into an engagement. It wasn't only the Whittaker place. Somebody went
propinquity or the suitability of the to the store to telephone
They
match which had culm.nated in the couldn't locate either Dr. Nelson or
promise she was leaving tomorrow Dr. Branch, and Ralph thought of
to keep. They’d been dearest friends me. I don’t like to leave you here
aince she could remember, separat­ alone—”
ed for long intervals when he or
She thought that he was less con­
she had been traveling or in school cerned with her than with getting
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or involved in a temporary infatua­ away. It didn’t matter that this
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tion, but always coming together was her last night here. He was
again, taking up their friendship grateful for an excuse, perhaps. She
where they had dropped it, never lifted her chin.
admitting but mutually conscious of
“ I’m not afraid to stay alone.”
the fact that they liked each other
L A R R IM O R E
“ You might ride out there with
best.
me,”
he suggested diffidently and
John’s voice called her name. She
turned. He was walking down the without. Gay thought, any special
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path toward her, a dim figure in enthusiasm.
“ No, I’ll stay here. Kate will be
the deep twilight of the thickly
back before long.”
desire'to take her m ms arms, feel- | crowding trees.
TH E STO RT
mg in his own senses the throb of j “ I was just setting out to look for
“ All right.” He walked to the door
CHAPTER I—Charming, wealthy Gabrt-
opening into the kitchen, paused
the pulse at the base of her throat, you,” he said.
ella i Gay for short) Graham, engaged to
the trembling that shook her body, j “ Were you?” Her voice steadied, i there to ask, “ You’ re sure you don’t
Tbild Janeuay, returns to a cabtn in tha
Presently she grew quiet. When she
mind, that you won’ t be afraid?”
Mali e woods accompanied by a friend, Kate
“ Supper over?”
Oliver. The Idea of a stay at the cabin oc­ turned to him again, her face was
“ Certainly not,” she said coolly,
cur -d to her w h'n she received a key to it
“ Some time ago.” He stepped
composed.
wanting
to go with him more, she
foil, ng the death of her godfather, Uncle
Jo!
The two girls notice lm-
"I suppose I should apologize, I back to allow her to precede him thought, than she had ever wanted
meoiately that someone has been, and prob­ now,” sne said coolly.
Her poise, ! up the narrow path to the cabin, i anything in all her life before, feel­
ably is. living in the cabin. Kate suspects
her
detachment,
checked
the rush- ! “ Kate took her car to the garage in j ing each foot-step that took him
that Gay knows the identity of the mysteri­
ous occupant.
ing flood of sympathy and tender the village.”
away from her fall like a blow on
“ What for?”
CHAPTER II—While the girls talk the
concern.
her heart.
mysiery man returns. Gay. surprisingly
“ To have everything checked be­
“ It isn’ t necessary,” he said stiff­
His expression became more reso­
enough, Inlro luces the man to her. He is
ly, feeling that she had tricked him, fore you start in the morning. I of­ lute. “ You’re probably right,” he
Joh i lloughtr n. a young doctor whom Gay
had known In previous years. Soon after
humiliated because he had been so fered to take it for her but she said crisply. “ It might not be too
arriving at the cottage Gay discovered his
seemed to prefer to go herself. comfortable. I may be detained.”
Id- ; ity throw h an old monogrammed sweat­ naively moved by what might very
er Immediately aggressive, Gay asks him
weH have been feminine histrionics. Where have you been all after­
He left the room without looking
by what right he Is in the cabin. His right,
noon?”
“
I
won’t,
then.”
She
bundled
her
at
her again. Standing on the hearth,
she itmls, is greater than her own. He, too,
“ Just drifting.”
bright hair into a rubber cap. “ Apol­
she heard him moving about in the
pos.'c :es a key, but more than that, is heir
to ll from his Uncle John. Gay’ s godfather.
ogies are misleading.” She sprang
“ Didn’t it occur to you that I— room he used for a laboratory. Mo-1
Ga
Is high handed with him, and he
to her feet. “ Come on. I’ll race that we might be concerned about ments passed slowly, dropping like
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he will leave. Look-
Inc it him In the doorway, her old feelings 1 you to the landing,
you?” He held the screen door open water which might not be gathered
re' n. She knows that he is more neces- |
She
dove
from
the
side
of
the
float,
for
her.
up again, spilling, wasted, gone for­
sar. to her than is Todd Janeway, the man j
came to the surface, set off toward
“ Not especially.” She glanced up ever. Presently footsteps thudded
she is to marry,
fhe shore, swimming with an easy at him as she stepped inside. He | across the kitchen floor. The back
CHAPTER III—Before he leaves, John !
was frowning and the set of his door closed.
Roes fur a walk. When he returns he llnds over-arm stroke. He followed, after
Gay s.tting before the fireplace. They begin
a moment. His strong brown body mouth was stern. “ If you were, I’m
The sound of the door closing vi­
talk ng on a more friendly basis, and she cut through the water, caught up
sorry,” she added.
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brated through her senses. Gay took
ask, him to reconsider his decision to leave.
with her, slackened its speed to the
Thr next morning brings a different feeling,
A fire blazed and crackled in the a step forward, stopped, then went
and John decides to remain for his vaca­ slackening rhythm of her stroke.
fire-place. She went to the hearth running out through the kitchen,
tion -on e mure week.
“ Yeu aren’t trying to w in!” She
jerked open the door, sped down the
CHAPTER IV—The night before Gay and
smiled at him across the strip of (
steps and across the clearing.
Kale are to return home to New York John
water rippling between them.
“ John!” she called breathlessly.
an urgent request to call at a nearby
“ What’s the use? I’m licked be- |
farm Gay accompanies him while he cares
“ Wait for me! I’m coming!”
for the patient. Returning to the cabin at a fore I start.”
late hour, John stops the car. He tells Gay
Her face sobered. The smile, curv- I
John opened the door of the farm­
that he loves her, and she admits that he Is
necessary to her happiness.
ing her lips, trembled.
house and looked out across a
“ John—” she said, hesitantly.
stretch of weed-grown lawn. His
“ That's a pretty swell prospect,”
“ Yes, Gay—”
car was there under the willow
he said.
But she ducked her head. When
where he had left it at the edge of
"Yes, isn’t it?” she said brightly,
the lane.
too brightly, so that again he was it emerged, water streamed over |
“ Good-night, Ben,” he said to the
aware of the passion beneath the her face as though she were weep­
lanky young man in overalls who
light mocking words. “ And that’s ing.
had accompanied him to the door.
only the beginning. Todd’s father
The bow of the boat cut through
“ Don’t worry.
Everything’s all
is giving us his place in Connecti­
right.”
cut, too, so that we’ll have an an­ water which shimmered with the
“ Thanks, Doc. Jenny and I are
chorage and Dad has bought an reflected glow of the sunset. Gay
mighty grateful.”
apartment house over by the East lifted and dipped the paddle slowly,
“ That’s all right. I’ll run in some
River oecause, of course, we’ll have watching circles, rimmed with gold
time tomorrow—today.”
to spend some time in town. We’re and flame and amethyst widen out
A thin high wail came out through
to have the top floor. Thu contest across the still surface of the lake.
the open door. The unshaded lamp
is on as to whether the decor is to The wind which had blown all day
trembled in the shaking young hands
be smartly modern or quaintly Vic­ had died down but the air was grow­
She wished she had
which held it. John laughed.
torian. I’m backing Mother to win. ing cold.
“ Only a healthy one could make
She’s all for glass and chromium. dressed more warmly but the sun
that much noise. He’s going to be
Aunt Flora’ s what-not and ball- had been hot when she’d set off,
alone, directly after lunch.
an opera singer.”
fringes haven’t a chance.”
He’d thought she was dramatiz­
“ Not if he takes after his Dad.”
“ So you see there’s no sensible
ing that afternoon. Well, hadn’t she
The boyish face traced with lines of
reason why I should have run away.
been—a little? The rebellion beneath
weariness and anxiety shone, then
It was the whim of a spoiled little
the words she’d spoken was sincere
darkened. “ You sure Jenny’s—all
brat who hasn’t sense enough to
enough but her expression of it had
right?”
know her luck.”
been theatrical. Why couldn’t she
“ Fine. She’ll probably sleep un­
“ Gay— !” he said, louder this have talked to him' directly? He’d
til noon. Your mother will know
time, his voice gritty with effort. given her an opportunity. She’d felt
He was frowning and the set
what to do. You get some sleep.”
“ Will you stop talking like an ab­ very close to him, for a moment,
of his mouth was stern.
“ All right, Doc. We sure thank
surd little fool?”
nearer to mutual understanding than
you.
Good-night.”
“ But I am.” She was moving, they had ever been. Then pride had and held her hands to the warmth.
The door closed. John walked
“ Are you cold?” He struck a
now, with a rocking motion back gotten in the way, had checked the
across the stretch of lawn toward
and forth on the float. "What a gift spontaneous response to the tender­ match to light a lamp.
the car. The full moon had dropped j
for description you have!”
“
A
little.
The
air
is
chilly
after
ness in his voice that she had want­
below the dipping hills but the farm­
the sun goes down.”
"Y ou’re trying to make me think ed to make. It was just as well.
yard was bright with radiance it
you are,’ he said brusquely, “ but She was leaving tomorrow to keep a
“ Ard you’ ve had nothing to eat." had left. John drew in deep breaths
you aren't succeeding.” He bent to­ promise. What John thought of her
“ I’m not hungry." The constraint of the cool damp air. He came up
ward her and his voice softened was unimportant. She would, in all in the atmosphere lay like a weight
to the car walking quietly, shorten­
from a demand to an appeal. “ What probability, never see him again upon her spirits.
ing his long eager strides.
are you getting at? What are you after tonight—
"Kate left something in the oven
But she was not asleep.
try mg to tell me? Please—”
No use thinking of that. Gay, at for you.” His eyes avoided her
“ Hello, Doc,” she said, and sat
s:,e drew n long sobbing breath some distance from the shore,
glance. He adjusted the wick and erect in the seat of the car.
and the house of cards tumbled into turned the eanoe in toward the land­ replaced the shade on the lamp.
“ I thought I told you to go back
fi; ments. She looked up at him, ing. There was only one explana­
"I don’ t want anything, thank to the cabin,” he said, but his at­
he. eyes dilated by tears, then down tion she wanted to make. She'd you.” She stood with her back to the tempt to sound stern was not very
into the water.
been, when she talked to John this fire, now, printing his features upon convincing.
“ I don’t want to go back to New morning, very unfair to Todd. Re­ her memory as she saw them in
“ You did,” Gay said. “ You’ve
Ycrit,” she said, so low that he morse for the impression she’d prob­ the light striking up from the lamp. been telling me that at intervals all
scarcely heard her and as though ably given John of him had nibbled Her throat ached. Her heart felt night.”
the wot i: - were forced from her by uneasily at her thoughts during the too big for her breast.
“ Are you frozen? Let me look at
s ie ai’i cy beyond her control.
afternoon. She was fond of Todd.
“ You’ll be making an early start you.” He leaned past her into the
1 e did not reply. The sympathy She loved him as her best and dear­ in the morning?”
j car and turned on the dash-board
tit; welled from his heart in an un­ est friend. Strange— But that was
“ P rob a b ly.”
lights.
til . n
flood made coherent true. He was her best and her dear­
“ Then I’d better fill the wood-
She wore his old college sweater,
est
friend.
tin ht in possible. He sat watch-
basket tonight.”
too large for her, the sleeves rolled
in;, her i i orts to regain the control
But how could she explain Todd to
He came to the hearth and bent back to free her hands and she had
h. vppeu had shattered, fighting a John7 The bow of the canoe bumped
to lift the basket. The firelight shone bundled herself into a cocoon of
on his thick dark hair, on She lean car robes and blankets.
angle of his jaw. By extending her
“ You should have gone back,” he
hand she could have touched him. said as he slipped in behind the
why not? There was only tonight— wheel. “ They would have taken me
The telephone on the wall whirred or I could have stayed here all night.
and jangled.
Do you realize that it’s nearly three
“ What the devil—?” he exclaimed o ’clock?” He released the brake and
in an undertone and walked across the car moved out into the road.
the room to the telephone box “ What do you suppose Kate is think­
against the wall.
ing"’ ’
Get all t lie re is of that
She watched him place the re­
“ The worst, probably.” She moved
ceiver to his ear, heard his brusque closer to him in the narrow seat.
cool breeze
“ Hello! Hello! Will you get off the “ What is it, a boy or a girl?”
wire, please? HELLO! The call is
"A boy." She was unconscious of
But keep the flies anil
for the Lawrence cabin, Mrs. having moved toward him, he
bugs out
Sprague. HELLO! Yes—" His voice thought. Wonderful to have her here
quieted to a less aggressive tone. very close to him, wearing his
“ Hello, Ralph. Yes. Houghton speak- sweater, waiting for him to ride back
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Her voice was
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comic exasperation as he placed the there were complications. I'd have
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I duced by embarrassment and the
"That's jolly, isn't it?” His smile, fear that his enthusiasm might bore
her response, relieved the con j her. “ I shouldn't have let you in for
straint. ” 1 thought it might be long i this. I didn't know it was a baby.
distance," she said.
I Why didn't you take the car back
“ Long distance? Good Lord! A to the cabin hours ago?”
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“ I wouldn't have missed it.” she
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dering voice. "Nothin'* as real as
this ever happened to me I should
think that doing what you d;d tonight
wou’d make you feel lil"?—God
“ Good Lord!” he sa;d. trying to
conceal the pride and r ’ ''" ,:ure her
comment gave him. "I d'dn t do
anything she couldn’t have done for
herself. Made it a little easier, pos­
sibly. There’s too much sentimen­
talizing over doctors!” he concluded
severely.
“ Oh. John, don’ t!" she cried with
soft vehemence. “ Don’t be as lamed
of—enthusiasm.”
“ I’m not actually." he admitted,
moved by the sincerity of her voice.
“ Only you’ re always so controlled
and—detached. You’ve made me
feel that enthusiasm is—naive.”
"I know! I hate it!" she cried.
“ We’re all that way. my friends. I
mean. We think it’s smart to be
bored and disillusioned. We avoid
any display of emotion as we would
avoid a plague. Even Todd and I—” j
She paused.
The roadster dipped down into a
hollow where fog moved befoie the j
head-lights in wraith-like shapes.
John felt his hands trembling on the
wheel.
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