New Britain herald., 1927-02-05

l anu WILAAu WdS du Olu-10SllOuct gold brooch set with three large | diamonds. They were cut in ar l old-fashioned way that did not show up their glitter. but they were
 very nice, nevertheless. My aunt left me these. My father just sent them to me-" Bob- bic said. "I'll probably never wear them-but they may come in handy some time."
 Why don't you wear them?" He asked the question carelessly, as he turned the car and started off toward the west.
 Robbie shrugged her shoulders. "Oh. I don't know. l don't like dia- monds. They're so showy. like pearls"
 Most women are crazy mad about diamonds"
 i "I'm not" Bobibe said. "I. like nice things-but things that aren't showy. Now, you take Monica. She loves wonderful things. but her kind of things isn't my kind. She wants things that show up. Flashy things"
 Gus laughed, showing his square. white teeth.
 "Cat!" he called her. "slamming 1 your best friend!'
 She's not my best friend and I'm not slamming her! think she's i q wonderful-looking thing without being the least bit pretty" Robbie defended herself. I'm not jealous of her."
 | You don't ned to be. She and I are simply old friends-I like to her her say funny things" Mac Cloud answered soberly. T like different girls for different things
 What do you like me for?" Bob- lie hadn't wanted to say that. but it was said before she could stop herself.
 Gus MacCloud put out his hand and it closed over hers on the seat l between them.
 1 Everything" he said very quiet | ly. His ice-blue eyes left the road | and met hers for just a second. The look in them made Robbie feel | as if he had touched her in a swift 1 caress.
 They sped on toward the ocean, and the keen sea air came in to- ward them, lifting their hair and blowing it to wildness. The two 'heads-the mans sandy one and the girls raw-gold one-were close together.
 the ocean, and watched the sun slowly sink into the blue Pacific. Tar below them was the ocean, and beside it the wide motor road that curves along the shore toward Ocean Park and Venice.
 Heavenly up here. isn't it?" MacCloud's voice was very low. T never know how tired I am-how sick of all the noise and hurly- burly-until I get to some quiet place like this-with someone like you"
 Someone like me?" Robbie was hurt.
 You. l meant" the man an- swered. Don't start to argue and fuss. Be yourself. You're the only woman l ever knew who could sat isfy me just by shutting up and being sweet"
 He drew her close to him.
 'If I were the marrying kind you're the kind of girl I'd marry" he said after a minute, and Bob- bie's heart sank.
 She had mo- definite thought of marrying Gus MacCloud, but she had been playing with the idea Q little bit.
 'I'd never marry anybody" he added. I don't believe in people marrying when they're in the busi- ness you and I are in. There are too many jealousies and separa- tions and things like that"
 Robbie was silent. How he talks" she told herself furiously. AS if I had asked him to marry ne or something"
 You're perfectly right!" she said aloud, and her voice was as smooth as piece of velvet. That's the way I have it figured out. There was man back home who wanted me to stay there and marry him. But I told him l never would while there was any chance of my mak- ing good in pictures"
 And suppose you don't make good?" the man beside her asked. What will you do then? Go back 1 and marry him?"
 Robbie looked straight into his eyes and lied. Why. of course!" she said.
 They sat perfectly still for a minute or two. MacCloud was looking thoughtfully out at the water and when he turned his eyes to Robbie they were not ice-blue but more like blue flame.
 T wouldn't let you do it!" he told her deliberately and slowly. And slowly and deliberately he pulled her so close to him that she could scarcely breathe. She could feel her breath coming quickly and jerkily.
 She put a quick little hand up against his cheek, pulled his head down to hers with the other one and kissed him. A long kiss that left both of them breathless and | confused.
 "Oh, I didn't mean to do that!" she gasped. She really hadn't It l was as if unseen wires had made | her pull his face down to hers.
 "Why not?"
 II don't know-only if you're not l going to marry and I'm not going 1 to marry, we haven't any business making love. have we?"
 MacCloud never answered that | question. He was the kind of man | who knew when to keep his mouth |