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OF BRIGHTNESS GONE
BY HOLLY WATTERSON : OKSgUXH
TANGLED WEB
CHAPTER XIV
CANDACE hurried down th
. rubber-tiled hallway , to the
telephone at the tar- end. . She
said, "Oh, Martin," happy at the
ound of his voice,. "I'm o glad
you called." ,
"You won't be when you hear
what I'm calling for," Martin said.
"I'm afraid that I can't see you
tonight after all." .......
The faint uneasiness Galea'
Writs had engendered turned Into
sudden fear. She said stiffly,
"No?"
"You sound as though you think
I'm a polecat, and I feel like one
for disappointing you. But I've
been having some trouble In neu
rology and the prof agreed to take
me and a few other fellows in the
aame boat and give us a workout
tonight-"
She stood there, her elation
gOiio oiid a bick UliEfioliiSSi iu . iii
place, answering nothing.
"Hello? Hello?" Martin's vole
called anxiously. "Listen, Can
dace, if you want me to HI cut
it" -
"Oh, no," she said quickly, "go
of course. I want you to study,
you know that" ,
"You're an awfully good kid,"
be said gratefully.
"Candaee," his voice had a muf
fled sound; she knew that he had
put his lips doss to the trans
mitter so as not to be overheard
by others there in his house.
"Darling," he repeated, "darling,
darling. I wish we were already
married. I wish we were married
right now"
Things were suddenly all right
again. She clung with her fingers
to the shelf under the telephone,
steadying herself against the
weakness that seemed about tto
overcome her. Her eyes involun
tarily closed. She whispered, "I
do, too, Martin, I do, too "
Martin came back into the room
after his phone call wearing an
expression of angry gloom.
He jumped when Peter greeted
him. Peter said, amused, '"I'm
just your old roommate, remem
ber?" .
Martin grinned sheepishly. "I
didn't know you were in." ..
He went into the bathroom and
closed the door. Peter heard the
drone of the electric shaver and
the snlash of the shower.
Peter had seen his' father that
day; tilings appeared to be look
ing up a bit for him and he was
eager to tell Candaee. When Mar
tin finally emerged and was dress
ing, Peter inquired, "What about
Candaee? Is she coming here first,
or are you meeting her somewhere?"
. Martin looked up sharply from
his careful choosing of a -tie.
"She's not coming in tonight.
Why?"
"Oh, Just some family stuff I
wanted to tell her. I thought this
was her evening off."
"It is. But I've gotten to bad
with Hapgood, somehow, and he's
stuck me for a session tonight,"
Martin said shortly. '. ; ''
Hapgood was the neurology
prof, and tough. No wonder Mar
tin was carrying a chip on his
shoulder.
. : " .
TITARTTN had been gone only
about five minutes when Mra,
Prosser shouted upstairs that there
was a call for him. After she had
relayed the message that he was
out, she shouted up again. "The
ladyil talk to you, then, Mr. Fra.
tier."
Peter ran down, expecting it to
be Candaee. He called cheerfully
Into the phone, "Hello?" and
high, young, quite unfamiliar
voice at the other end said, "Mr.
Frazier? This is Faith Harts-
home."
"Yes?" he said politely,. In. a
tone that invited her to go on.
Faith Hartshorne laughed a lit
tle.. "We met at the tea, remenv
ber? Martin mentions you so
often that I feel as though I know
you awfully welL but I can tell
you don't even remember what I
look like."
Martin mentions your so often,
Peter s mind repeated. He an-
trwered, hoping his voice wouldn't
sound as stunned as he felt, "But
I do indeed. You're the tall blond
girl with blue eyes and a dress
to match, tastefully, decorated
with tea stains." ' '
"That's me. All but the dress:
that's been put into my memory
museum." Under that brittle tone
she sounded absurdly young. "The
person who answered just now
i your landlady, wasn't it? told
me that Martin isn't in. Is he
likely to stop by, do you think,
before he starts to meet me?"
Peter said dryly, "I'm afraid I
don't know that. I don't always
know what Corby is up to."
She laughed. "Do you feel that
way, too? But that's part of his
charm, don't you think, that lav
mccountableness?" She didn't wait
for an answer, fortunately. "If
he should come in will you tell
lum that I've just missed a train
and I'll have to wait a halt hour
for the next one and may be a
bit late? I thought I'd catch him
in plenty of time."
She resumed her grand lady
lone. "I've asked Martin several
times to bring you up with him,
but he always claims to have for
gotten to ask you, or he has some
other excuse. You might speak
to him about that"
"I'll speak to him," Peter pronv
Ised, Brunly.
He hung up the receiver slowly.
He thought of Candaee sitting
alone in her room, loving Martin,
trusting him. and his lace con.
torted with sympathy. He began
to swear softly, savagely.
fPHE Instant Peter saw Martin
A when he came In he knew that
Fnilh Hartshorne had told htm of
her call.
He had been waiting tip for
Martin, getting a grim amusement
out of at least this part of tea
situation.- Ward and Davis were
both asleep and he had closed
the sliding doors between tne
rooms so that they 'would not be
apt to hear any possible argu
mentfollowing a pattern, PeUr
was sure,, for all the world like
that of a' wife grimly suspicious
but trying to prevent her children
being disturbed.
Peter had tried to cherish a
faint hope that perhaps Candaca
knew about this girl, that she had
known about tonight, in spite of
Martin's lis to him; but Martin's
attitude made short shrift of that
"I suppose you've been putting
two and two together and getting
something really big," Martin said.
"It don't add up to no tale lor
Uny tots," Peter said.
Martin shrugged. "I coma ex
plain, the whole thing easily
enough," he said, "If I eared to.
I don't I don't owe an explana
tion of any conduct of mine to
you. ;.
"Not to me, as myseny- reier
said, "no. You wouldn't have to
.anyway, I know witnoui Deing
told what yoirve oeen up to.
Faith Hartshorne, the daughter of
the chairman of the board: that
speaks for itself, doesnt it?" His
voice was heavy with contempt
"Who you kick in the face during
your climb up the ladder of suc
cess Is your own dirty business,
not mine except where Candaca
is concerned. There it is mine."
"I don't- suppose you'll nave
sense enough to stay out of this,"
Martin said. "What are you going
to do?"
"Do? rm not going to do any
thing. At least for the present.
But you are. You're going to Can
dace and you're going to tell her
everything. What happens after
that depends on her."
'Brave talk." .Martin sata.
sneering,: "brave talk. I don't sup
pose I can convince you that it'll
b better for Candaee, easier tor
her, If you let me manage things
in my way?"
"Feller," Peter said, "I nave
watched you manage tilings in
your way; and in my opinion,
your way stinks."
(To Be Continued
MUSIC GETS HIM
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)
Former Harry Bolublak was
amazed when lie unmet Ills work
horse flecked with lather and
barely able to walk.
Worried, he called In a veteri
narian, whose diagnosis was:
The horse, ri old-time circus
performer, had been pastured
near Notre Dnmo university's
field where naval trainees drill
ed to band music, and had been
prancing to the music.
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