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ST 1 sr:s -. I - SI sr. flCK JD(1 iff 4 . jkrtt $U' ?f i . . '& am am AW ..St.. iiai i . 11 :. r SERIAL STORY ..WHEN A GIRL MARRIES BY RENE RYERSON MART COPYRIOMT. 1941. NCA (ERVICS. INC. TRUE CONFESSION . CHAPTER XIV ; 'TOM cava dismayed whistle. "Good heavens, girl, wliat , have you been doing to yourself? You look as If you'd lost 10 pounds." Enid's face wai white and drawn, and In Letty's house dress, two sues too big (or her, she ac tually looked as if she had shrunk. She smiled wanly. "Oh, I'll be an ngni now." It had been a hard wK. Mom had been strong enough to go home the day after her tlirilling rescue, but she refused to leave the hospital until she had been assured that someone would be with Pop every minute. And upon Enid bad fallen the burden of keeping that promise. For Letty had her babies to take care of, and Aunt Faye was too mindful of her own comfort to spend iTiBiiy tedious hours by a lick man's bedside. Not that Enid complained. She was thankful that her father was alive to receive care and atten tion. So she had stayed with him faithfully, sleeping propped up in a rocking chair in his room, and only twice during the week had left the hospital to come out to the cottage to bathe and change clothes. It had not been until Friday night, when Pop had been at last pronounced out of danger, that . she had had anything like a full night's sleep. Mom wai in the cottage kitchen with the girls, where Tom had found them that Sunday morning. His words focused her worried attention upon her youngest daughter's face. It was the first time she had really seen the strain In it, the hollows under the dark sober eyes. "She does look right peaked," llfom agreed with Tom. With vigorous decision she took the dish 1 towel out of Enid's hand. "I'll help Letty with the dinner. You borrow her bathing suit and go for- a swim with Tom before we eat. It'll do you good." ; Vainly Enid protested. Tom dragged her out of the kitchen ' threatening: . "Now mind your mother. Get Into that bathing suit, pronto or" his eyes twinkled "I'll put it on you myself." "And lay down there ta the sun wntil you get some color in your face," Mom added. : : Reluctantly Enid ducked Into the bedroom and put on Lefty's bathing suit Saying that she was too tired to swim had been only an excuse. The truth of It was, she dreaded being alone with . :Tom. TT was half a city block to the . lake front from the cottage oc cupied temporally by the Shar ons. Then one had a choice of ' scrambling recklessly down a ateep bank,: or walking another . two squares- to the resort hotel and; going' down. the steps there to the boat' pier. . " Tbmelected jthe path down the bank. Ha helped Enid and then, still holding her hand, raced her , through the shallow breakers that were dashing lazily on the sandy beach. The water was cold, de spite the hot August sun beating down on it When she caught her breath, Enid turned over on her back and floated. Tom struck out with his vigorous crawl stroke and swam out into the lake until his head was a mere bobbing speck on the green water. Then he turned and came back to her, the water foam ing front the drive of his strong arms. He looked at Enid and grinned. There were white circles under her eyes now where a few min utes' before there had been shad ows; and the rest of her face was turning a beautiful scarlet. He laughed. "We'd better get out and dry or you'll be parboiled." She followed him up the sandy beach to the foot of the bank where some scrubby trees threw a thin shade. She sat down on the yellow sand and shook her hair free from the cap. Tom flopped on his stomach beside her, watching her. Enid met his eye and then looked away. "Nice here, isn't it?" Tom asked lazily. Enid agreed. He sat up suddenly, remember ing something that-had been on his mind. "Say I suppose the hospital bill for your folks was pretty Bteep, wasn't it? I meant to ask before I went away that morning if you needed any money. I've got a little in the bank . . . some that I've saved this last month to buy you a ring." She straightened up Jerkily. Tom stared at her. "What's the matter?" . "Oh, Tom, Tom don't a ; "Don't what?" "Don't buy me a ring now." "Why? You want one, don't you an engagement ring?" 'No!' It was as If the word escaped of ! own volition. Cer tainly Enid had had no premedi tated Intention of uttering it But as she said it her decision was made. She was too tired to go on pretending; to go on trying to fool Tom and herself. Tom eyed her incredulously. "What do you mean, you don't want a ring?" The truculence faded from his voice. "You haven't changed your mind, have you?" She didn't want to hurt Tom. But how was she going to tell him? Tears rose to her eyes, and she struggled against them. She mustn't cry. She mustn't make Tom sorry for her. "I guess I know how you feel, honey," he said soothingly. "You've been through a lot and you re tired and upset. I shouldn't have started talking about our engagement. I only. meant that 11 you d rather have the loan of the money now, instead of a ring" "Tom, please " He patted her shoulder. "Alt right. Wg wont talk about it I'll wait." CHE pushed herself away from him. Her voice was desperate but determined. The false situa tion into which she had weakly allowed herself to be drawn had to be ended once and for all. "Tom, you don't understand. I'm not going to marry you. 1 don't love you. I never have." There, it was out! She hadn't meant to tell him this way. In fact she hadn't meant to tell him at all. She had fooled herself all week into thinking that she could take up her life where she had left it before she met Dr. Henry Holliday. But now she knew that she couldn't. Tom stared at her, jt first un believingly, then his face went white under its tan. "I'm sorry, Tom. Really I am," Enid whispered wretchedly. She wished she could wipe that look from his face. "I don't suppose it will hurt you to ride once more with me," he cut in harshly. "Tom I didn't mean that! I'll be glad to ride with you, if you want me to." "I .came up here to get you, dIHn't I?" It wasn't a cheerful ride. Tom was silent and surly, and Enid was harried by a sense of guilt She wasn't accustomed to feeling that she had behaved badly and she knew she had to Tom. She was also uneasily aware of the secret hope beating deep in her heart. A shameful hope that she wouldn't admit even to her self, but that was there as she said her constrained goodby to Tom, when at last they reached the un pretentious little frame house on Elm street. She didn't need any makeup, for the sunburn she had acquired that afternoon had reddened her Hps and given her face a soft and lovely flush. 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