Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-12-19
The Old, Tender
Mocking Voice
By MARGARET WIDDEMER
20. Doubleday. Page 6 Coz

kt1M NOT sure | wanted to come
back" said Kitty's voice-the old
voice, half-penitent, half laughing,
wholly casual.
He turned 1t was really Kitty,
white clad foot on the fender in the
old luxurious way. The freight gilt
tered on her hair and made rosy shad-
ows on her lowered gown. And yet
four years of absence and silence lay
between this moment and their last
parting.
He cried out, "Klttyi Kitty, dar-
llngw
Really !, Cliff" said the old, ten
der, hooking voice.
She smiled over at him.
but you always knew our love was
eternal. That l would never belong
to anyone but you. :"
He reached out his hands to her,
little and slim and rosy in the big
chair they had always called hers.
mo dear" she said, lifting her
hand the bracelet he had given her
a little chilled. He wanted to touch
her and hold her, now she was here
again and his But she had always
been like this-elusive He mus be
patient He would reach for the little
hands, the little body, when she was
talking intently and off guard. And
she would laugh and yield caresslngly
In the old way.
She leaned to him again, talking In
that quick, earnest way he had been
waiting for. 1t always came, slipped
in between her laughter
"Clln, did you dream about me
lately2 Oh, Cliff do you remember,
when we'd only been engaged week,
how one night dreamed that we were
in wood together, talking and love
making, and we promised In the dream
that we would always come to each
other when we needed each other
and that night you'd dreamed It, tooT
Eyes, | remember" he said, thrilled.
1--WE did that five times. And we al
ways found out that we had had the
same dream"
"But hasn't It come to you since
latelyf" She looked at him wlstfully
Because twlce--lately--it has come
to me-"
He stared at her, half-terrified.
Such dreams had been very far from
him since Kltty's departure. He had
fought all dealings with the unknown,
those half-gay, half-serlous affairs
with the borderlands that Kitty had
| led him into. man drops such things
as he gets older. And yet-hOw did
she known 1t was true Twice lately
he had walked in a brentwood with
Kitty, whom he had tried to forget.
And now he did not need to forget
her-now she was here, and his for
always
"Twice lately, to me, too, Kitty" he
said awed. "Then we were right"
She laughed out, as a child does, for
sheer happiness.
yes, we were right. Our love was
forever but we always knew
1t was"
Yes" he echoed her gravely. ave
always knew It was. And yet :"
'There's no 'yet'-there's only
always p"
And after time she suddenly rose.
81 must go now-for little WHILE"
she said, smiling. She flushed little
us she said 1t. Her crisp summer
frock, thin white, with It's printed
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