SERIAL STORY
.WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
BY RENE RYERSON MART SSViS'.'SL
KKSCUK AND REMORSE
CHAPTER XII
HOEE you Sunday," Hank Hol
llday laid ai he bid Enid
food night. "You're to do another
portrait of Sonny for me, remem
ber?" Enid trailed. "Yes," she said.
She waited with her key in the
door and watched him go on down
the hall, slim, blond, carrying
himself with that easy assurance
aha admired so much. Ho turned
at his own door and waved a
careless hand at her.
She had no way of knowing
that betore she saw him again
many, many things would be
Changed.
The heat wave lasted until Sun
day morning, and then just at
dawn it broke in a terrific storm.
Enid sat up in bed frightened and
dazed. The wind -was whipping
through the open bedroom win
dows and the curtains were flying
back into the room.
She slid out of bed, stumbled
in the darkness against a chair
and ran to close the windows.
It was still raining when the
telephone rang at 9 o'clock. It
was Hank Holliday calling. Enid
hadn't seen him since the night
she had gone on the consultation
trip with him.
He said it looked like the rain
had spoiled their plans for an
other picnic with Sonny. They'd
have to postpone it until another
timfl. Fnirt BaiH, '"Yes," and waited
expecting him to suggest other
plans for the day. But he didn't.
Said he was awfully sorry, and
that he'd be seeing her, and hung
up.
She dressed and got her break
fast, and wondered what she was
going to do with the long day
ahead. Well, she could go home
. and pick up her mail.
She saw the telegram fastened
to the door knob as soon as she
reached the porch. She tore it
open hastily.
"Pop and Mom lost on lake in
-storm. Come at once. Letty."
.
JUNTO'S knees sagged with fright
. It wasn't hard to imagine what
' had happened. Mom had written
that she and Fop usually went
. out on the lake just before day
light, because the fishing was at
. its best then. And they had been
caught in this morning's storm.
She looked at the time at the
' head of the telegram. Eight a. m.
She'd already lost nearly three
precious hours.
. It was strange how. In this sud-
den emergency, her mind reverted
to its old channels. Not once did
she think of Hank Holliday. It
iwas Tom Tom. He'd take her.
Enid felt calmer at once and her
dazed mind began to function.
Tom said he'd be right over
when she explained things over
, tne teiepnone to turn. "Now don t
. worry," he told her. "There's a
lot of small islands in the lake.
They're probably quite safe on
- one of them."
The 100-mile drive to the lake
seemed endless although Tom
drove as fast as he dared on the
wet and treacherous road. They
didn't talk much.
Once Tom said, "Gee, I'm glad
you're back. I missed you like
h " He broke off abruptly, re-
membering that she didn't like to
hear him swear. "Well, I missed
you," he finished sheepishly,
. throwing her a sidewise grin.
His words made Enid feel cheap
and ashamed, remembering that
she hadn't thought of him for
days. To cover her emotion, she
put her hand on his arm that was
next to her. "I don't know what
I'd have done without you today,
- Tom." .
. She prayed childishly and si
. lently, "Oh, dear God, let them
. be found by the time we get
there." But the moment she saw
Lctty's face she knew they hadn't
been.
, Tom said he'd go down to the
, lake and join in the search for
the old people. Phil was already
there. Enid wanted to go with
him, but Aunt Faye, who had
come over from her own luxurious
cottage on the lake front and
taken charge in her domineering
way, vetoed that.
"There's nothing you can do
down there," she told Enid. "You'd
only be in the men's way. Now
take off that slicker and sit down
here and drink some hot coffee."
"As if coffee or anything could
help," Enid thought despairingly.
But obediently she sipped the
scalding liquid.
THE rain continued to fall all
day, a gray depressing drizzle,
and just before dark a man from
the rescue squad sloshed up to
the cottage in rubber boots. He
said that a rowboat had been
found floating bottom side up.
But, he added quickly, seeing their
gray faces, that didn't mean that
hope was to be abandoned. If
Mr. and Mrs. Sharon had taken
refuge on one of the islands when
they saw the storm coming, their
beached boat might easily have
been carried back out on the lake
by the high waves.
But Enid wasn't deceived. She
knew that the capsized boat was
almost certain evidence that her
parents had been drowned. She
couldn't cry quietly like Letty or
ostentatiously like Aunt Fave. She
was too numb for tears. She coula
only move to a window and sit
, staring out through the thicken
ing darkness toward the lake.
If only she had spent this last
month with Pop and Mom here
at the lake as they had wanted
her to do, Instead of going off by
herself. She'd never be able to
forgive herself now.
She didn't at first realize that
the bobbing lights moving up the
muddy road were lanterns carried
by a crowd of men, and when
she did she was afraid to move
for a moment. The search was
over. What had they found?
Tom was ahead of the crowd.
He dashed up the steps to the
cottage porch where Enid and
Letty and JTaye Luxon had
crowded. He put steadying arms
around Enid.
"It's all right, honey. They've
found them alive! But they're
weak and sick. They've been wet
to the skin and without food all
tills time. We've got to get them
to a hospital."
The hospital waiting room had
drsb "T-v vnUf. To brishtctt it
up, the wicker furniture had been
lacquered a yellowish pale green.
Enid knew that she'd never again
see that sickly shade of green
without feeling ill, without smell
ing the odor of disinfectants and
drugs, without feeling the leaden
heaviness of that long hour of
waiting outside the emergency
room.
The doctor, when he finally ap
peared, was grave. He said that
Mom was rallying splendidly, that
she'd be all right"without a doubt,
but that Pop He faced the girls
frankly. "It's a bad case of pneu
monia. I can't give you any hope.
We'll do what we can."
A few minutes later a nurse
beckoned to Enid and told her
that the superintendent wanted
to see her downstairs. Enid
couldn't find the elevator, so she
walked down two flights of stairs
and located the office. The super
intendent motioned her brusquely
to a chair beside her desk.
"We are going to have to send
to Cleveland for some oxygen."
the woman explained. "Your fa
ther's life depends upon it Can
you pay for it?"
Enid stood up. "He must have
it," she said desperatly. "I'll
I'll eet the money."
THISXURIOUS WORLD
SEALS and SEA-LIONS
ARE DESCENDANTS OF
THAT RETURNED TO THE
SEA AND TURNED THEIR.
VWKS INTO &LSVfSS.
DETROIT
HAS AM AIR RAID SHELTER.
LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD
ITS ENTIRE POPULATION'
AN OLD SALT MINE '
BENEATH THE CITY HAS
25 MILES OF PASSAGEWAYS
ATA DEPTH OF I.OOO FEET.
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(Pi.).
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paragraph.
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She was thinking frantically.
She had less than $25 left of her
savings just the amount she had
counted on for food and small
Items during the last week of her
stay in the apartment. If only
she hadn't spent nil her savings
$350. She needed the money now
to saw Pop's life. And it was
gone. What was she going to do?
(To Be Continued)
HOLD EVERYTHING!
"I think we've perfected a de
fense against those commando
raids. Ma!" .
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(abbr.).
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