LAB GIRL
By Rene Ryerson Mart
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NCA SBVtC. INC.
TRK PAMT
CHAPTER IX
RARBEE shook herself, tried to
" (nap out of the atrange pell
the music had cast over her. Just
Imagining herself In Ken Carter's
bins bad sent a strange thrill over
her, a warm glow of happiness
which the thought of no other
man had ever given her. Just for
a moment she had thought (he
was in love with him.
k But her good sense at once came
to her rescue. How could she oe
In love with the mant She hardly
knew him. And the little she did
know of him didn't build him up
in her imagination. He was a fac
tory foreman. He probably had
little or no education. His tastes
were crude he always laughed at
Sue Keller's Jokes.
Barbee had had a number of
boy friends, she had been mildly
in love a time or two, and with
that experience she was quite,
quite sure of her own control over
her emotions. When she tell in
love it would be with someone
quite suitable from every stand
point, someone Charles Mowry,
maybe. She laughed indulgently
at her queer fancy of a moment
before and went to bed.
Even if she had been inclined
to worry about the incident she
Would have forgotten it in the
surprise the next day brought to
her. Her father called her at the
laboratory to say Ned was coming
borne on furlough.
. .
CHE was almost too excited to
work. Plans buzzed around in
her head all afternoon, plans for
making Ned's homecoming a su
perlatively happy one. She talked
it over with Ken on the way home.
"Well have to have a party a
homecoming party.''
"That's a good idea," Ken ap
proved. "I'd sure like to meet
Tour brother.
Barbee stopped short, realizing
suddenly that Ken was expecting
to be invited to meet Ned.
She groped for words. "I dont
think you'd enjoy it I mean the
party. You see it will be just for
Ned's friends you wouldn't know
anyone.'"
"Don't worry about me, it
doesn't take me long to get ac
quainted," Ken argued good
humoredly. Then as the full im
plication of her stammering
dawned upon him, "Say, what is
this you mean you don't want
me there, is that it?"
' Barbee tried to smooth it over.
"Don't be silly. Ken. It's just that
a party is never a success if you
try to mix strangers. I'm sure
Ned would like to meet you, too
some other time." It was a poor
excuse, but the best she could
think of on the spur of the mo
ment Some strong emotion swept a
tide of red right up to Ken's eyes
and hair line. For a moment he
stared hard at Barbee as if de
termined to read the mind behind
that pretty embarrassed face.
"I see," his voice sounded thick
and strange, r . ..
Barbee's hand stole toward his
arm 'in an impulsive comforting
gesture, almost betraying her.
Then she drew it sharply back.
Why try to smooth it over? Ken
was fight the first time. She didn't
want him at the party. He
wouldn't fit in with Ned's friends.
She'd be ashamed of him.
The ride to Barbee's home was
finished in atony silence.
"Thanks." she said, getting out
His eyes met hers, bitter and re
proachful. "I really want you to
meet Ned before he goes back,"
Che went on awkwardly. "We
anight all have dinner together
acme evenlne."
"Don't bother," he said curtly.
"All right" She lifted her slim
shoulders in a shrug to show that
4be didn't care. He had no right
to feel hurt because be wasn't in
vited to Ned's homecoming, she
told herself angrily. But that
didn't keep her heart from sinking
when he drove off without saying
ecodby.
THAT secret feeling of remorse
remained with her all evening
as she planned the "party to cele
brate Ned's homecoming, ' con
sulted with the beaming Molly
about refreshments, and tele
phoned Charles and Ned's other
friends on her invitation list It
was still there the next day, an
uneasy undercurrent to her happi
ness over seeing Ned again.
Ned looked wonderful, brown
and fit and very soldierlike in
his summer tans. Charles and
Sella were the only guests invited
tor dinner. Ned held them all
spellbound with his talk of Army
life.
At 8 o'clock the other guests
began to arrive. Barbee had con
trived cleverly with the short time
at her disposal. There was danc
ing to the radio in the sunroora
where many another impromptu
dance had been held, card games
in the living room. , wiule her
father and a couple of his cronies
were established comfortably in
the library where they could talk
undisturbed by the younger folks.
Barbee, graciously lovely in white
organdy, flitted from group to
stoud intent suuon seeing that
LACY FAN IS EASY
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by
everyone" was having a goo3 time.
The climax of the evening came
when Ned announced his engage
ment to Delia, "I guess every
soldier needs a girl waiting for
him back home a special girl.
I've found that one ... for me."
He kissed Delia before them all.
Barbee did the conventional
thing. She kissed Ned and then
Delia warmly, and then as other
friends crowded around with con
gratulations she slipped away un
noticed. Outside on the terrace
she wiped the thick tears away
from her eyes and as fast as she
did so fresh ones filled them. She
wasn't 'crying from jealousy. She
was truly glad that Ned had found
happiness. She was crying be
cause she couldnt present Ken to
her family and friends in the same
proud way that Ned had presented
Delia.
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