Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-29

again? II she told him that she loved
him. wouldn't ne leave her sobbing on
the dock at Liverpool while ne saiicc
away to Rio?
Linda ran TO the writing room and
dashed off note. her hand shaking as
she wrote:
1t was nothing but game. Let's
remember it that way"
She scrawled Linda" beneath 1t.
sealed 1t and stuck it against the lamp
on the table. He'll meet it. instead OF
me she said her cheeks blazing. and
it'll tell him that there's one girl his
millions couldn't knock over.
For hours she tossed in restless mis-
cry, then arose dressed and went back
to the deck. Only a few loiterers lin
gered in the chairs. and they paid her
no heed as she sought the darkest, most
sheltered corner She had Just settled
herself in il when Pats voice. gay and
bithe as ever. startled her.
I've waited lust five hours" he TOLD
her "btrt it's worth it
Il didn't come out to meet YOU"
You didn't say you wouldn't"
I'm saying it now"
Its too late. You're here. and I'm
here" He leaned close. his nearnc>S
gripping her. What's the answer.
Linda"
! Il wrote ii 10 YOU"
Wrote it9 When"
Tonight. I left 1t for you in the
writing room"
Il didn't get it. Linda. don't vo,i
love me at ail9"
Love-" She tried TO laugh. but the
sound came miserably strangled. Do
you usually buy It reaoy-made?"
4 don't know what you mean" he
said. solemnly L know that / love
you. and I've hopcd-I guess I've ever.
prayed the best know how-thar you d
love me. / haven't such an awful lot
TO offer any girl, but what I've got is
all yours. Linda. dear. Ill work for
you. and taxi care % you. / suppose
you think this is pretty swift. Maybe
1t is, but I've been waiting ever sine
grew up 20 find YOU, and I'd be a
foo. II didn't know you WHEN I did.
Haven't any chance? Is there soma
one else"
Not with me. I haven't specialized
in men the way YOU have in giI Is"
Specialized? GiriS?" He puzzled over
her indictment Il don't run after
girls I've worked TOO hard IN bother.
tor one thing Then I've alwaTS Known
that no one can eat his cake and have
! IT, and l kept holding out for Sou-
That's honest. That's what I've means
f 10 ME. PLAYING square"
do you tell that 10 srslF g,Vl?"
I never told Ii 10 any g.ri ossorc.
because I've never loved any other
girl
You liar"
Swiftly ne drew away from her his
face as cloude6 With shocked. hurt
amusement as If she had struck him
! oh. If you feel that way" he said
and walked of from her
Z For an instant she yearueG 10 cali him
back. 10 tell him that she did not be-
lieve the tale OF his reckless phllandsr-
ms. but her own grief In the kn0v'le<se
forbade captulation
: Il don't care" she told herself -.
don't care" and Sobocd TIL dawn
showed the gullS and cormorantS cir
cling ou' from the dark mountains O.;
The Irish coast
NFTTH the valiant effort OF q hopeless
w misery that knows II mus; face for
ward. she pulled herself up from the
slough Of deSpono before the tcrcoUi>.
steamed into the MerSey She WAS wan
with SORROW and SleepleSSne<S. however .
Swallowed sister OF the bravely adyen-
turing Linda who had set out from New
! York, when from her deck char she
gaged on the thickeninS forest q. r2$t>
OF the ships Of the seven seas The
! TWO Portuguese having diseSteG Have
lock Ellis regarded her with aNsl<ttral
attrnt!on as ShS stared towSyd shore