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

when they parted. and then recall
each other with increasing vaguencSs
For you're not going To be foo
about him. Linda" she warned her
self.
She glowed with pleasure. however
when he came TO luncheon at the
table with the two Portuguese
Isn't this luck?" he demanded
brazenly, although she had seen him ii
earnest and apparently fruitful CONVEX.
sation with the dining room steward
Il breakfaSted early, and so l didni
know this was your table. too"
/ He beamed upon their companions
They can eat peas with their fingers
stand no English" he said bowme
sweetly TO the Portuguese lady.
This is almost rs good as a two
some" he told Linda.
~ Ks
MOT until the fourth day ont did
she see how deity he had cut hel
away from association with any one
else. The two Portuguese we're still
reading Havelock Ellis. The blondinec
young woman was busy. with little
affair OF her own, a tall, pale. weary
looking young man who had taken owe,
! hours in detected silence while the
blondined lady regarded him witt
j Scornful amusement. The Scot had
harnacled himself into a chair In The
smoking room. The middle aged man
with spectacleS had made himself g
! floating buoy with his Ware. shoal!'
OF ship gossip. but he never succeeded
in breaking between Pat and Linda
! long enough TO ring his bell OF warning
! The other men. rangy EngliShmen
! Stocky WelShmen. genial Irishmen. Z
few voluble Frenchmen. preoccupied
! Americans, most of them elderly. might
/ as we'll have been on another boat fol
all their proximity meant to Linda
/ Those OF the women who noticed her a
all raised eyebrows of displeaSure upor
her constant association with Pat, ant
left the two Of them exquiSitely isolated
except for the nominal table com
partnership Of the two Portuguese.
Linda accepted the situation.
He's the incest thing on board. a
that" she declared with greater We
hemence than the assertion demanded
10 the star-eyed Linda of the stateroon
mirror. What if you don't know hi
other name? He doesn't know yours
He wouldn't look up the list any NOR
than you would. He plays fair. Be
sides. it'll all be over in couple o
days."
Appreciation OF how fleeting tn
hours of those would be Sept her tina
evening near to Pat, dancing strolling
sitting with him in their sheltered cor
ner of the nearly deserted deck unit
after the moon had sunk into western
waters.
4 ought to go she said.
Don't" he pleaded
But"
He put his hand on her own. "Don't
Linda" he said. I've got to tell yo'
something"
What" Her voice quivered.
Il guess YOU know. by this time"
u don't know-anything'
"You ought TO. I've been telling yo,
every way I knew since l met you"
Telling me-what?"
That love vol"
OH
Didn't you know it?"
II suppose I did"
Linda"
"Ye-es?"
Don't YOU love me--a little?"
L don't know"
oh"
The disappointment in his tone wen
through her. fraught as IL was witt
emotion real and poignant, vibrant will
longing that went far beyond tn
bounds OF the CAV game OF filtration
she had PLAYED with him. For mo
ment il swept her out upon tide O
such depth and power that she strllg
gieu in panic against its immensely
finding her wav back In shore In
rising anger against the implication O
rerroach in his gaze.
IL thought YOU were only play
ing" she said weakly.
Il don't play this way" His voic
was grim
But you don't even know my othe
name"
What II ! don't? It's not girl
other name a fellow loves Is 1t? Your
Linda. and love YOU. Do you thin
you might love me" he asked with tn
irony of hurt pride. III you knew m
other name? Its"
Il don't want 10 know It," she halte'
him You've no right 10 talk like thi
To me. could have found out YOU
name from the purser any time II
wanted to know IT, couldn't /? But
didn't because ] loved the game "
were playing. desert island on bi
boat And now you've spoiled 1t all"
Desperately she Was sparring for tim
against the food OF pity for him tina
surged within her heart. against tn
. appalling realization that she wanted I
tell him that she loved him. 1t couldn
he true she tried 10 reason. that she
fallen I'm love With a man she didn
really know All the cautions Of Mid
dleiown. Of civilization tuggcd her TO
ward negat on. but the yearning i
Pats eyes was dragging her 10 him.
Il don't see. he said how tellin
YOU the truth that made IL a happ
game could sDoil Il Don't YOU see tha
we've loved the game because We love
. each nther2"
II haven't said love you"