Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
Turning Down Tommy.
</NK AIRY me tonight. judy"
- M he said suddenly. II can
make you love me. Trust
4 me, Judy! Marry me-

| </NK AIRY me tonight. judy
- nu he said suddenly. ~ can
make you love me. Trust
| 4 me. Judy! Marry me-"
"P S q. T o m IN y.''
lJudy's voice came on faint, tired
sigh. You promised me not to tease
about those things"
| You won't marry me?"
| II can't
| Why not?"
oh don't make me say all this
over again | don't love you--not the
way you want me to- Not yet, Tommy.
I'm trying. Honestly / am. But it
it hasn't happened YETI
| II want you to love me any way
YOU can. I'll be satisfied with any
| thing, Judy
His voice, rich. low, coaxing, swept
around her. How easy to yield! But
there was no hand upon the latch of
| the little closed door.
| But suppose it never happened,
| Tommy"
He made a swift, impa tient gesture.
| I've told you we'd do very nicely.
anyhow. Judy, if you'd just be sensible
about 1t, I'll make you happy. In
a few years youll laugh at this TO.
mantle notion
| Laugh or CRY? Which, Tommy"
'I'll never let YOU cry. darling girl.
couldn't bear tears in those eyes of
| yoursr'
The miles fed by them.
| why don't you answer me, Judy?
| What are you waiting for?"
Waiting for love, Tommy"
In the singing silence, the rushing
air. she heard him groan family with
despair.
Don't you know you're hurting
me?" he said to her in muff1ed voice.
How can you do it," And there was
almost hatred in his tone. That night
Judy cried herself to sleep.
do love him." she asked herself
! in the smoky darkness of the apart
ment rs that why / am CRYING"
| But when the next day came, and
with 1t. early in the morning. Tommy.
carrying a huge cluster of violets. he
was the same Tommy and she was
! the same Judy, the one storming the
small. secret door. the other standing
guard upon that door and the secret
dream within it.
And vet there was a certain, fiery.
dangerous fascination for her in
Tommy. He had a quick, cold smile,
| sometimes, that frightened her. 1t
was smile both arrogant and ruth
less. He had swift. charming gestures
with his lean hands that made him
vivid. dramatic to her.
Sometimes, looking hack 1t seemed
To Judy that this fascination was like
drug at work upon her. dullng her,
sleeping her In warm. unthinking
| comfort, pleasure. Now and again
she came out from under this drug
and saw things whole, and was shaken
and sickened by what she saw
She was engaged to Tommy. En-
gagged 10 Tommy, Impossible. Why,
she didn't love him. She couldn t
marry him. Her heart came awake
| like great sore nerve. 1t throbhed
and would not let her rest. What
would it be like to belong to Tommy
| forever and forever? Oh, she couldn I
do it, She couldn't, How had she
been mad enough to say she would
even think of it?
| She would make up her mind to tell
| him just how she felt the very next
time she saw him. And then he would
come in gay, dominating, flashing, and
/ the old fascination would be at work
| again.
oh, it was all very perplexing,
| troubling, What was right? What
should she do? She began to have bad
nights, long nights when sleep came
slowly and when it did come was filled
with frightening dreams.
| She was married to Tommy and
| living in one of his mines. And the
mine was filled with gold. 1t shone so
that it made her eyes ache and she
cried because of the terrible glitter of
| the gold. And outside she could hear
| voice calling her and begging her to
come out And she cried to that voice
| II don't know how to get outr' And
| then somebody chuckled and she could
| hear them walking away. forever and
forever, And she couldn't get out of
| the mine to follow,
| And then again she dreamed that
she was running away from Tommy
| and she ran into a circus of animals
a nd they came around her and stopped
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