The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-20
THIS HAS HAPPENED


JERRY RAY thinks love n q
deluslOn and decides 20 MARRY for
money. Her vacation plans nre
spoiled by the loss Of her savlng.s
md nothing remains bWt TO g0
caMpInE With her roonmate
her to ALESrER CARSTAIRS
when he crashes his airplane into
their camp. Her heart responds u
DAN HARVEY. his pilot. hut
Atester il struck by her beauty
mud shOwers attentions upon her.
snE poverty and illness slrength-
ems Jcrry's determination TO try
to marry wealth.
Unable Ia buy a new gown for
the biE party Alester has imvited
her to. Jerry ytelds to the tempts.
intending to slip II bnck next
morning: Al the party the dress
10 ruined.
Jerry !. In panic who's she
realizes her predicnment. she
confessen "a the manager. who dis.
charges her. She seeks another
job. and 10 surprised one evening
when Dan calls ON her. lie tnkes
her driving aud proposes 10 her.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIX
TERRY was amazed at her own
feelings. She wanted. rashly
and without thought OF conse.
quence. to throw herself into Dams
arms and cling to him forever. In
a moment they would say good.by
at her door. She couldn't bear
that. knowing he was never com.
ing back again.
She closed her eyes while the
swift surge OF emotional abandon.
ment coursed through her being. 1t
couldn't be. her brain signaled to
pounding heart and tingling nerves.
She mustn't touch him. This was
only a passing fear-something
that she would get over soon.
Shed never been Indifferent to
partings OF final nature. People
had sometimes thought her callous
and cold because she preferred to
avoid tender scenes. She didn't
like to say good-by to anyone who
was at all dear to her. That
was 1t. she liked Dan Harvey.
liked him more than she wanted
to. but It couldn't be love. It
couldn't be love because he hadn't
made her forget all the world for
him.
Hadn't she heard q fine about
the world being well lost for love!
Well. she didn't feel that way
about Dan Harvey. She could see
q background behind his proposal
Girls in love didn't see beyond the
ecstasy Of their lovers kisses. she
remembered.
Dan had kissed her. and she had
thought OF the danger his love was
to her ambition.
She opened Ter eyes, the i'm
pulse to surrender vauquished. Oar
helped her out to the sidewalk and
she ran on ahead OF him up to TIL
old stoop. He did not follow i'm
mediately.
CHE turned. with her hand Of
- the doorkn6b. She hoped b,
couldn't SEQ that her eyes wer'
flled with tears.
''Good-by." she called. and turne,
the knob. The door Was locked
She had hoped this would 50 on,
Of those times when It wasn't. 6h
lost time In fumbling In her bal
z Tor the key.
Dan was beside her before sh
found It. He took It and let hi
fingers linger on hers. And he say
the tears In her eyes. But b
thought them tears Of anger o
humiliation. She was a proud II,
tie beggar. he told himself. H
must have gone pretty deep whe
he intimated that Alester Carstalr
wouldn't stoop to her level for
wife.
Alester would call It STOPPING
he amended. TO him Jerry VA
thu highest-placed girl In th
world. He had . mental feelin
Of looking upward whenever b
thought Of her. except when he r.
membered her avowed intentio