Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
THE DUCK AND THE DOVE0@@y
By hez Haynes Euvin

"All right. I refuse to accept any
besides this shop?'
We'll, I've mother for one thing"
II don't blame you for Dragging about
your mother. Still, lots of other girls
have mothers. too"
But have a very special mother"
Duck was stiff now. We've lived TO-
gether always We have never been
separated, except when have made
little visit somewhere. We love each
other so much that-well, it's sometime
you couldn't tell man. He wouldn't
Understand it. But to separate mother
from me would be like-oh, I don't
know what it would be like"
! "Of course, every girl has" Dan
was beginning.
I'm not every girl" Duck interrupted.
Dan tried to speak, but her raised
voice talked him down. You cans pos
sibly know what the intimacy between
mother like mine and daughter like
me can be. For years we have been
living for Little House. There has not
been day that We haven't talked about
1t. There hasn't been week we haven't
planned for it. There hasn't been a
month we haven't saved for it. Do you
suppose a girl can smash in a moment
a dream that has been Is years in the
making? I couldn't. No, l can't marry
you, Dan. shall never marry any one"
Dan was not listening to her. His
gaze had gone far away, and apparent
lv his thoughts had followed. Little
House" he repeated. $50 you prefer
the dream of little house to me?"
Duck pulled herself together. yes"
she declared Il do
! The door opened and some customers
crowded in.
"Good-by .then!" Dan said. He
dashed out Of the shop
Duck made the best single sale she
had made in the two months of her
business existence. Her early morning
tourists bought and bought. 1t was
strange, Duck reflected once, that she
could be so business like, so chatty.
Afterward, she could recall nothing they
had said.
AS usual, Have you had good morn
ing?" Dove asked when Duck came
home to lunch that afternoon.
The best I've had yet" Duck an
swered. Something in Ducks voice
brought her mothers gaze upon her.
You're gaining steadily, Duck" Dove
commented. There's no question about
that"
"Quack, quack" Duck suggested,
YEARLY.
Goo cool" Dove concurred, mystified.
And then sudden thrust of suspicion
tore her. Had Duck refused Dan?
WHEN Dan Edison rang the bell of the
w Tillotson apartment that evening,
1t was with mingled sense of conf
dence and trepidation.
Shirley opened the door; a Shirley
holding herself straight and tense
against the faded colors Of a charming
little living room.
Il don't suppose you were expecting
me this evening, Shirley?" he managed
to throw off casually.
mo"
II hope you have the good sense, Mrs.
| TlllotSon," Dan continued, shaking
night"
Il dol" Mrs. Tillotson, deliberately
he knew, was producing this gay note.
I'm fact, want you expert advice on
my latest masterpiece. It's a combina-
ton, you see, of pink verbena and love-
in-a-mist"
Dan bent over her painting table.
Its lovely!" he declared You ought
to have show of these things I am
sure we could manage it at our Offices
sometime, If you could only get enough
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"Oh how important that makes me
feel! Thank you. with all my heart.
But don't think Of it any further This
is case where the idea thrills me quite
as much as the reality"
X X X
DUCK, eyes still averted, was fussing
with her account books. Now and
then, Dan shot glance at her. 1t
could not penetrate her aloofneSs.
II came here this evening" ladies'"
he began, with an air of brightness, ito
offer you novel evenings entertain
ment. I'm going to tell you story"
At this, Duck turned her wan look
up to him. Was she more beautiful.
Dap wondered, when she was CAV and
brilliant, changed at the behest of each
emotion by the warm colors that
Swirled in and out of her white skin:
or now, when she was so palpably dis
trait, and her hair, tumultuous and
thick, further exaggerated her color
lessness with the deep shadows it
dropped?
tits story" he went on resolutely,
"of the House than Dan Built, of the
original Daniel Edison, who came to this
country in 1641. Have ever told you