SERIAL STORY
PLAY BY PLAY
BY PAUL DAVID PRESTON
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NEA 6ERVICE, INC.
SIGN LANGUAGE
CHAPTER XXX
rpHAT Wednesday night Nanoy
and Scooter Hale were guests
In the Miller home. When the
widow and little ion arrived,
Nancy'l eyes seemed lovelier than
ever. ;''.
. "You don't look as If you'd had
a terrible strain, darling," Bly
greeted her. "You look grand."
Nancy was lull of a new and
exalting thing. "Bly'l ... Oh, Bly!
I want to talk to you. I feel
grand, too. I have so much to
tell."
"Come on In. Of course well
talk. X expect we'll talk until
morning."
They almost literally did that
For one thing, Mom herself had
to be told all the exciting details
of what had happened. In answer
to her flood of breathless ques
tions, the girls relived much of
their harrowing adventure.
, "It's Just like something out of
book," Nancy thrilled, "and it's
even got a happy ending."
Blythe considered that Yes, In
a way it did have, of course. It
meant a very real happiness for
. Blythe herself, just knowing that
Nancy hadn't been disloyal and
mean. It meant a deeper, richer
understanding all around.
The telephone Interrupted their
- conversation. It was a call for
Nancy.
: "No, Mr. Loumann, I cant talk
tonight" she was saying. "No, I
can't sign any contract tonight
and probably not at alt . . . What?
... Yes, I do understand, and
. I think you're very generous, but
you see, I Intend to leave all busi
ness matters now to my husband.
... Yes, thaf s right . . . But
tomorrow night Mr. Loumann,
I'm marrying the most wonderful
man In the world!"
. Blythe gasped at hearing that
Nancy had hung up instantly, and
sow she came back In beaming.
, "I was going to tell you, this
very evening. I couldn't think
how to start Blythe, after all
that that I had said, and done.
.1 mean asking you to help me
.with well, sometimes a person
Just doesn't know her own mind.
YouH have to put me down .as
wishy-washy. And please love me
: forever, Just the same.; I need a
sister like you, and I know Nor
mar thinks you are grand. ' Bly
dear, it's Norman Tm going to
marry!" '
JJLYTHE MILLER told herself
' some days ' later that she
would never quite remember those
hours between Wednesday eve
ning and Thursday noon.
' She just went through a con
tinuous mental whirling. . Sleep?
Not that night! She and Nancy
Hale lay abed together and talked
girl talk Into the scandalous hours.
Baby Scooter slept in Pop's room,
and once they got up to go cover
: him' and found Link the puppy
curled on the pillow right at his
ear.
All Thursday morning Blythe
nd Nancy held down Pop's office
for him. He stayed away with
bis football players, quiet in a
hotel. But the girls had excite
ment every moment Literally
hundreds of people called. Both
of them had to be photographed
l dozen times. The newsreel pic
tures wanted more shots, and Abe
Loumann of World Features tried
to entice Nancy with a contract
at double his former offer. In the
, end he sat there mopping his
brow, determined, waiting.
Interest quickened at 1 p. m.
when everybody left to go to the
stadium. It would seat 60,000
fans, and every seat would be
taken for this State U. , game.
Blythe and Nancy and Scooter of
course would be sitting on the
Lincoln bench.
Blythe didn't go directly inside
tfie stadium, however. Nancy
went on ahead because Scooter
was anxious to get near the two
big bands that were already play
ing. . Half the stadium seats were
filled by now. Blythe waited near
the players' entrance. "At a quar-'
ter of 2, a .bus rolled up with
Pop and his "lads" already In
uniform.
"HI, Blyl . , . Hello-o-o!" ""
"Bly, Blyl . . . Yea-a-a-a, yoo- .
boo! Hi!"
The players were yelling their
greetings, piling out of the bus.
. She saw Duane., She saw Norman
Dana. She saw . Heavy Under
wood, somber of face because he
Wouldn't be able to play. She saw
fcU the other eager cadets, football
men for one more game. She felt
Pop near her and kissed him when
he held her a moment and then
all at once the others were stream
ing In and she was alone with
Duane.
"Listen, Bly, listen! . . . Listen!"
' He kept repeating It, nervously.
"I been thinking all night All
day. I finally got up courage
enough to ask it That question
I told you about Bly, I been
Wanting to ask it for more than
year.I got to ask it now or
Til go crazy! Blythe, sweetheart
could you possibly marry mo? I
love you so. Could you? , . . Could
you?"
"Snatch him out of it gang!"
Suddenly they were swamped!
His own teammates, seeing him
linger, had returned In force and
now they ran onto the field with
lum while the stands began a vic
tory roaring.
"YICTORY roaring?
" Exactly that People said,
later, that no team on earth could
have stopped the Lincolns that
day, Dana and Hogan, -the two
great backs, were greater than
ever. By fourth quarter they had
Suite u. in a daze.
And it was in this fourth quar
ter, too, that another odd little
drama was recorded for posterity.
There was a time out alter Lin
coln's third touchdown. Duano
Hogan had dropped back to kick
the goal, and in the dramatic mo
ment of waiting he turned to face
the Lincoln bench. Sixty thou
sand spectators saw him begin
making strange hand signs.
Instantly, Blythe Miller jumped
up from the bench and 'made
queer gestures of her own.
The referee's shrill wliistle cut
the air. He ran toward Dunne.
"They're coaching from the
sidelines!" yelled the State U. cap
tain angrily. "Against the rules!"
"Did you get a message from
the Lincoln bench?" the referee
demanded.
Duane was smiling. "Yes, sir."
"Penalty, then!" the official
snapped. "What was the mes
sage?" Big Duane Hogan grinned even
broader. "I was just doing a little j
Indian sign talk. I said to the j
coach's daughter, 'What's the an
swer to my question?' And she j
sign-talked back. Her answer was
Yes!' "
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fluid.
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pronoun. 48 International
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