Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-10-31
A Fudge Sauce
Romance
By JANE OSBORN
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N UNCAN HODGES was not partlc.
- ularly sensitive. Soft music made
him feel neither sad nor sentimental.
The fragrance OF sweet flowers on
spring day did not fill him with
poetic longings. He felt no special
thrill at the sight OF the rosy glow of
sunrise. His friend. Charles Cornwall,
told him that whenever he CHANGED 10
get Whit of that particular brand
of expensive perfume used by the girl
to whom he had once been engaged,
he felt a queer. depressing sort of
thrill. Duncan Hodges had listened
poltely-maybe other men were like
that. but Duncan couldn't under
stand 1t.
He had seen Dora Claire that after
noon They were going to mas
querade dance together In a week and
they had been shopping to get their
things
you're going to look too wonder
full for words. Duncan" cooed the lit
e.. us So ia. -
"oins W 'ooh p,e'g ny sou
seIi ~ tna' 'P"'''" s'" ~
'eieu 0unc""
10 you rea.iy thi,ih so,Duhc"n
she uskeu. "onuer Wuelnei you
mean IT, men say such nice .hines-
but when you know they say the same
thlhgs TO ail tne girls they SNOWY
doesn't count LOT tnuch' Dora
signeu' II was sign tnut went lliore
or less directiy 10 0uhchhs heart.
Ihey Waikeu Oh step OF tWo UNI
duncan nurrieuiy reminded himself
tnat Dora was supposedly something
OF nirt' anu ti'"' u n"u even oeeh
hihteu that 'he reaso" sue nuu NC
cepted his own auuresses Ior tue pust
months was because OF ms soou Jop'
ana NOT iheohs'derhhle priVuie fortune
oti'l' sue was "ice sh', Ie,n"ps 'ue
lehuer ieeiihss NJ ""u npou' us "eul'
were us ,,iutte' Vi '"c' 'oNe-pei
naps lie re"iS "iu cure a sre"' ue'''
'or Dor"-
swear never say thihgs 10 girls
JUST TO say them' duncan was oegih'
nlng' When say you are the pref,
Iles' siri III our cro"u ! "'e"" az
lhis was soou oesihhihs' ineS
were passing popular chhuy s'ore77
that was tne emu Oh roniance az 'e"s'
50 iar us Doru a'u Duiiv"i' were eo'.
eerheu. por up 'lo'n '"e o"seu'enI
out from 'he shop tnere call'e 'ie en-
uicing irusrance Vi iuuse suuee' Du''-
can 'ooh 1"o vi tiiee s"ou "ni"s
ahu-p1eSto cii"ns' .l"e'e came We
tore hlm--petweeh MN anu Dorh
seeiheu-the lnase vi iranA'iaseu
girl WIN reuuish h''irn ie" lreeAies
eyes tla' were merry ''""R" ho'
eAac''y oe"utiiu'' WIS June WIZ
nam.
gu uiuiIt hi'ish Wh"' you were
saying s"iu Doi"'
duncan shld thaI ne was gong 10
ask Dora 10 drop INTO the coniectlOn'
cry shop ana nave some tea or some
thing' Ana All the tlme thnt they sal
there vis-a'vls duncan COL WINS OF
fudge sauce ana win every VIM
thoughts OF Jane 'obham became
more ana more vivid
Back In his rooms that night Dun
can sal thinking OF Jaiie--Jane, the
girl he had liked so well four or i've
years ago when he was a student at
co-educatlonal college. He hadn't had
much money to spend then, but quite
often he took Jane to the sweet shop
and treated her to chocolate fudge
sundae. He had never annlyzed the
matter but now he knew that some
where In his mind the smell OF hot
fudge sauce was Intricately mixed up
with thoughts OF Jane Cobham--and
both seemed very pleasant. He re
membered that he had once Intended
to ask Jane II she would moi marry
him
Duncan went through with the mas.
querade. Dora scolded him for his
indifference. Then she began flirting
with some of the other men thought
she was furnishing him, perhaps. And
all the time he was figuring out how
he could get away from his job long
enough to run out to the college town
VIII Jane Gotham Ilved--the daugh-
ter OF very much under.pnid pro-
fessor.
Duncan arrived one afternoon and
went straight to the old Gotham
house, looking for all the world as II
had four years before lie rang the
front doorbel and Jane answered
She seemed q little embarrassed, but
she didn't look o day older than when
he saw her last. In fact, to Duncan
there seemed to be n softness and
sweetness about her that had never
been observable before. Duncan
thought that was perhaps because she
was engaged SO as soon as they had
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