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. SERIAL STORY : OF BRIGHTNESS GONE BY HOLLY WATTERSON hOT?!TC- , . BIRTHDAY mESENT v" . CHAPTER XV . T "to .: WOi kills -' OUt, CciuuiiCG . thought happily, In a way thot m almost too good to be true, . The big lntrnfratemlty dunce, Martin's birtliday and, best of all, her transfer all coming at once Wee this! -. ' She had several days off before she was to start at Good Samarl 't.iir. They gave her a chance to make arrangements with Mrs. Proeser for a birthday supper . after the dance, and to do some personal shopping. She squandered long-saved money on a dress she felt be fitting to such a great occasion. Candace was pleased when, at dinner, the solicitous waiter left them alone. She sat back, smil ing at Martin. "What was it Peter jeaid he had to do?" , They hod planned to have din ner together, the three of them, and some girl Peter had asked; but at the last minute Peter had sent '' (word that he couldn't make it ' "Some case they've been fol lowing went bad," Martin said. She leaned forward a little. "Martin," she said softly, "I have . a wonderful surprise for you. A ! wonderful present We won't have to be separated any more. I've gotten a transfer to Good Samari tan." He didn't say anything. But he didn't look moved, he looked star tled. First startled, and then guarded. She saw, with a sick shock, that he was displeased. All her happiness, all her assur . ence was abruptly stripped from her. Dazed with disappointment, ' she heard herself apologizing. "I won't hang on to you, truly I won't If you- think it might be , embarrassing, It needn't be gen erally, known that we're engaged. . I thought that with us both in the same hospital, even though well each be busy and won't have much time off, it will still be something just to catch a glimpse of each other occasionally " - Then, -when Martin still dldnt gey anything, "You're not happy about it? You're not pleased." Martin said carefully, "I'm sur prised, naturally." Nothing more. But later, when they were in taxi bound for Uje dance, he aid abruptly, "Candace, there's something you should know." With a frightened sense of lm ; pending doom she-cried out sharp . ly,;"No!" Then she tried to lighten that "You sound so serious, let's not be serious tonight" . rrHB'evening was a failure.: No '..amount of pretending could save it Peter didn't show up at all, but she never noticed. . Her pind was a blank,' she was sick (with this sense of foreboding. She Was relieved when Martin iflnally said savagely, "Lef s get out of here." . - They went back to Mrs. Pros- ,' leer-a. At the sight of the table and ' the : cake with its candles ' (waiting to be lighted, Candace 1 jshh-ered., . - . - -. I Martin had felt her' shiver. '"This is the damnedest damp moldy place," he said. A fire bad been laid and he applied a match Ito the shavings and drew a rickety lehair close to the fireplace for her. . : . When Martin no longer had any excuse for fussing about, he said Bnally, "Candace." ," It's coming now, she thought ' Her . shivering stopped, she sat frozen' in an icy calm. i ' "You-remember Pete and I told you about that tea for the pros- pective internes? You remember . Iwe mentioned that girl. Faith Hartshorne, the daughter of the . fchairman of the board? I looked 1st. a dog of -hers that was sick, you remember that? Well, the girl was grateful or something and she ' must have mentioned it to her father and he was too and they phoned me one night and asked me to dinner." Candace made a move as if to ... speak but he said, "No, wait Walt' until I've told you I felt t couldn't refuse because after all I wanted that appointment Oh, know it sounds silly. But Good Samaritan isn't like most hos pitals; pull counts a lot with the appointments. You wouldn't know about that" (Oh, wouldn't I, she thought bitterly; she'd pulled some strings of her own to be near Martin!) "Anyway, Hartshorne Is number one boy there, and I felt couldn't afford to have him down on me. So I went" . He added abruptly, Tve been seeing the girl occasionally since." The hospital tea had been months before. All this time, then Candace said slowly, "And you never told me, Martin? Why?" .He shrugged impatiently. "Be cause I was afraid you'd get up set,. I was afraid you'd think it was important. And it wasn't" It was Important enough to tell her now, , though important enough to have turned her gay laughing Martin into a guilty, hostile stranger. , , , "But now? Why are you telling me now?", , , TTB had forgotten that Peter had A Insisted on it; that was swal lowed up in this new and embar , rassing development Ho pointed out reasonably, "If you were to turn up at the hospital suddenly like that, don't you see how it would look? It would look as though I've been trying to put someming over " "Do you mean," she said, "do jrou mean you've never told her about me, either?" Ho laughed bitterly. "The first minute she was nice to me I sup pose I should have warned her, TJon't you go falling In love with me; I'm taken.' That would have marked me down as a nice chump, wouldn't it?" I Candace flushed resentfully. ("All these months since, though," isho suggested; but he didn't an swer that. She persisted, "You'll Itell her .now, won't you? You'U k to her, tomorrow, and tell her ebout me? About-ns?" Martin swore. "No," he said explosively. "Going to her, dra mntically, Ilk that Suppose sha told her father? It might even cost me my appointment" "Why? Why?, Unless" She struggled with stiff dry lips against words that hated to come, " unless she's in love with you," He didn't deny that she was in love with him. "She's a kid," he said. "She thinks a penniless in terne Is 'romantic' In six months she'll be over It " He sounded bitter. She asked slowly, "And if she isn't, Martin? If she isn't? Sup pose I help you to lie and cheat a little longer and she still doesn't 'get over it,' what then?" He didn't answer and she thought I'm In competition with his ambitions, He feels I'm in the way. . . . Her chin went up, "Suppose on the other hand," she said, "that I refused to be a party to deceiving someone else as I've been deceived. Suppose that I made it no longer necessary for you to lie and cheat That I released you." He had flushed a deep, angry red. "I'd have my brain exam ined if I wasn't glad. If I didn't feel I was lucky to be free of a Jealous, nagging woman " His foot struck savagely at a log and sent it crashing into the fire. Candace felt as though she her self had been kicked. A dizzying wave of nausea swept over her. When it had passed, she rose slowly. "How nice for you, then," she said, mocking him. "How nice! Because you're free of me. 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