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By Rene Ryerson Mart
"I BELONG HERB, KEN"
CHAPTER XII
TTNOWINQ the truth dldnt
chance essential values. Bar-
bee knew she couldn't go to Ken
and ay, "It isn't because you're a
civilian that I'm ashamed to pre
sent you to my family. It's be
cause you're illiterate, because
you haven't had my advantages,
because we don't belong to tne
lame world."
No, there was nothing to be done
about tne nurt sne naa dealt Ken,
Barbee decided alter a sleepless
night They'd had a couple of
dates together, they'd both gone
overboard about the other with.
out stopping to think first at least
she supposed Ken had, too, or else
why would her snubbing have hit
him so hard? But there was
nothing to be done about it. Noth
ing. It was a stifling day, heavy with
an oppressive heat One of those
bad summer days that breed un
even tempers, poor concentration,
and accidents. Barbee heard the
siren of a rapidly approaching
ambulance as she turned in at the
guard house gate. She pulled tc
one side and let it pass. By the
time she had parked her car and
returned to the guard house to
check in for the day's work, the
ambulance had picked up its
burden and departed.
"Who's hurt?" Barbee asked
anxiously.
"Ken Carter, someone answer
ed. "A drum of carbon dropped
on him in the furnace room."
Barbee stood there for a mo
ment with the world blacking out
around her.
TPHE guardttold her that he'd
been taken to Riverview Hos
pital. It wasn't very far in dis
tance, but it seemed like an eter
nity in time before she was park
ing the car before tne Hospital
steps and flying up them to the
broad door marked entrance.
It was an hour and a half
before they let her go up to
the room where they had taken
him. She tiptoed in fearfully.
Ken, his brown face looking in
congruous against the white pil
low, seemed to be asleep.
"How is he?" Barbee whispered
to the nurse in attendance.
"His left leg is badly crushed,"
the nurse told her. "The doctor
thought at first 'hat he'd have to
amputate but he's going to wait
a day" ...
"Oh, no no not that " Bar
bee cried.
There 'was a movement on the
bed. "Cut it off no good any
way can't get in ihe Army
can't fight Ken's voice was
heavy with the anesthetic
Barbee bent over him. "Oh,
don't say that, Ken don't say
such things" She was cryini
bitterly. .
Ken's vague eyes focused slowly
pon her. "Barbee what are you
doing here?"
"What am I doing here?" trying
to stdl her sobs. "I'm here be
cause I belong here. Ken."
What was she saying? It was
hadness. But she couldn't fight
It any longer this wayward love.
She and Ken might belong in dif
ferent worlds, but she loved ""
Nothing could change that
Consciousness quickened in
Ken's face. Anesthetic or no an
esthetic he could understand that
"Say it again, Baby. Say it
again!"
"I belong here. Ken. I love you."
TATER they tallied more calmly.
The doctor had been confident
and reassuring.
"Do you want (to write to your
grandmother?" Barbee asked
softly. "She ought to know."
"No." Ken was smphatic. "It
would only upset her. She would
n't believe that I'm getting along
all right and she couldn't come
to see for herself."
"Why why not?"
"Because, she's paralyzed did
n't I ever tell you?"
"Oh Ken "
"What are you looking at me
like that for?"
Her voice was small and
ashamed. "I've got to tell you.
Ken. Even though you'll probably
hate me for it I'm a snob an
awful snob. I I thought that is,
you said your grandmother
couldn't write, and I thought you
meant she was illiterate. I I
thought you were poor white trash
from the south."
It was his turn to stare. "So
that's why you didn't want me to
meet your family!"
FUNNY BUSINESS
"He won't be bothered now with salesmen and bill col
lectors till next monthl"
GIRL
COPYRtaHT. 14.
NKA (KIIVICI. INC.
She couldn't meet his eyes.
"And I thought you were
ashamed of me because your
brother was in the Army, and I
wasn't."
"I guessed that yesterday," she
admitted.
Suddenly he began to laugh
wholeheartedly.
"I don't see anything so funny
- He tried to explain between
chuckles. "Don't worry, honey. I
can read and write. Maybe I donl
talk so correctly you know
southern schools are easy-going,
but I've had two years of college.
I expected to go to night classes
while I worked. - That's why I
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"I'll have a putter, please I
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Alumina Plant May
Be Located in NW
PORTLAND, Aug. 17 (if)
Donald Nelson, chairman of the
war production board, will
recommend locating an alumina
plant in the Pacific northwest
if the manpower situation docs
not interfere.
So asserted Rep. Homer An
gell (R-Ore), quoting a letter
from Nelson: "no final decision
has been reached regarding this
project although it is our pres
ent hop to be able to find some
suitable location which will al
low for the utilization of the ad
vantages of placing this plant in
the Pacific northwest without
incurring further manpower dif
ficulties. Humanity has made the world
what it is. Our present chaos is
the failure not of the goodness
of God but of the sanity of man.
Dr. Carl c- Rasmussen of Get
tysburg (Pa). Lutheran Theolo
gical Seminary.
took a room In the University dis
trict But I had to put in too
much overtime on the job. A fel
low can't work 10 and 12 hours
a day and study engineering at
the same time. So the engineer
ing will have to wait until the
war's over. Does that make it
okay now?" There was nothing
wrong with his arms. He drew
her close to him.
"Oh, Ken," Barbee was halt
crying.
She held him off for a moment
"Ken, I'm glad I told you that I
loved you before I knew this . . .
Remember, you said once you
wanted to be loved for yourself."
He drew her face toward his.
"You've got . something there,
Baby." Then he kissed her very,
very satisfactorily.
THE END
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