Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-29
You Meet Such Nice People
By Mary SynOn

and. catching It's import, he rushed
into error.
But YOU do" he eXulted, not having
| wisdom enough to understand that 1t
was the pathos OF his lack Of surety
! that had allied to aid him,
Il do not"
| you do!'
/ Il know more about that than you
! do. don't II"
You think 1t over, and you'll find
! I'm right"
Il won't think 1t over
oh YES. YOU will. Ycull think about
/ it all night, and all day tomorrow, and
| tomorrow night you'll come right back
here, and you'll say Pat, love you.
And I'll SAY"
Il will not" She arose angrily Il
never in my life threw myself at any
mans head. and l won't begin with
YOU"
She ran down the deck, but paused
10 look back. She saw that he wasnt
! following her, and she hesitated br-
tween relief and regret.
Il might have known he didn't mean
it," she Sobbed. and sped to her state
room.
Ii. throught the night she tossed
in restless indccision. At o'clock
she hated him. AT she was sorry
for him. At q she loved him At 5
she had determined never TO see him
again. At 6 she fell asleep in the GER
tanty that she had lost him by sheer
folly and that she would never love
any other man. AT 8 she awoke with
the resolve to treat him coldly. At
fa;I n NJ q table
she felt that she must see him before
another hour had passed.
She Sauntered around the deck, but
there was no sign OF Pat anywhere.
Reluctantly she went TO her own chair
and fell asleep
She awoke to find the hlondined
!adys pale friend regarding her with
interest.
/ You're really pretty" he said, and
I don't wonder that the fellow from
/ HouStons gone loco about you. 1
! hadn't noticed you before. he went on:
/ as if his neglect OF beauty demanded
some apology. because, every other
time came this way my fiancee was
! here
Your fiancee?" She caught at the
circumstance to cover her embarraSS-
ment at his frankness.
/ We'll. I don't know what else to call
her" he said. She was really my
fiancee about five years ago. before we
ouarreled. Even If we happened to
] meet bv chance. this way. it's kind oil
i like old times. Maybe you've noticed
how she bawls me out"
Il hadn't" A.,
well you've been pretty much tied
UP with the fellow from Houston.
/ rs he from HouSton?
Good heavens" exclaimed the man
! what does he talk about, II he doesn
talk about HIMSELF
ME" Linda said demurely. AND
arose 10 start another search for inc
fellow from Houston.
She toured the deck once more, slow
| ing down as she came near Pats chaf
He wasn't there, but, in the chair neX'
to his, the one she had been wont 10
take, sat. bolt upright, tall woman
| Of a forbdding outline vaguely familiar
! 10 Linda Before she had time 10
define the reason for the familiarity
| the big woman turned
For one seismic moment the Nortn
| Atlantic seemed TO be sweeping IN upon
| til, girl. Then Miss Menken," she
pasped. and "Linda." the big woman
trumpeted.
"Whsre-Nh here did you come from9'
Linda asked stupidity, wnen she mao
disen,angled herself from an ardent
embrace.
'Middletown," Miss Menken chuckIed.
/ But"
did they make row about your
coming off day earlier. too
No Linda said lodging the truth
thai no one in authority could row
about her coming since no one In
authority knew OF II before she left,
They didn't? Well the board
made q riot about Miss Vinor and my
self leaving / had 10 go down myself
TO a meeting of the school management
committee and explain that we'd hac
arrangements made for nearly year
70 get of on this boat. SO that we'd
be In time for the Birmingham musical
, festival / explained that We had every
/ reason 10 believe that we'd be dis
missed on the seventeenth instead oi
on the twenty-third The committee
granted us permission. but insisted thar
We mention our plans 10 no one In the
school but Mr. Lowrie. That's why
you didn't know II, Linda.
She waited for Linda's explanation
OF her own presence, but Linda stooc
mute. stricken.
we might have come together
Miss Menken said.
Yes" Linda told her. and wondered
II she should have said no. Where's
Miss Vinor?" she managed to inquire
not from politencss. but from rising
fear that two witnesses against heI
would be more convincing than one.
sHarriet will be- up for luncheon
She'll be so surprised To see YOU. IT.
almost as II you'd fallen from the
sky"
Linda saw that she was already
registering as the FIRST event In her col
leagues Journey
Miss Menken swept aside a magazine
from Pats chair. sit down. she bade
I.inda
I'm come back Linda parted