Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-28
DANCING JUDITH
At44A 81 COPALlE STANTON and HEATH HOSkEN
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Dun1ont went on. He talked me-
chanically now, like q man In q
trance. They don't think shell
die. She could have saved herself
easily enough, as the fireproof cur
tain was lowered TO shut off the
stage. but she saw an old ma and
jumped down from the stage 10
help him. She vas caught in the
crowd"
Don't Bastien, don'tl" said Tony
Leigh in q voice that positively
ached. "Judy-Judy caught In a
panicky crowd-tiny little Judy!"
Then everybody began TO talk at
once. Emotion loosened aIl their
tongues but Alan's. Alan continued
TO sit there. looking like q man
who has ceased to live.
Chummy was very quiet. All her
faculties we're taken up In school,
ing herself 50 that Alan should not
know. She had seen that he still
loved Judy. and he must not know
1t.
1t began to be intolerable to
Chummy that Steyne should Just
sit there, saying nothing, doing
nothing. The other men did not
appear to notice him. She felt
angry in a dull kind OF way. Some
one must notice him soon. and
must realize that his life had
come to a full stop because Judy
had been nearly burned to death.
She touched his shoulder.
Alan. it's very hot in here. This
news has upset us all SO much.
Shall we 60 outsider"
He looked at her quietly. II was
as II his mind returned from an
immensely long journey. There
was no awkwardness, no hesitation,
In his voice.
1T Is dreadful news, Chummy",
he said. II know how you are feel
ing. Yes-I think well 60"
He rose to his feet, giving him
self a shake. He Joined a group or
men, took a paper from one or
them, and read the dispatch about
the fire at the theater.
1T was just like Judy, wasn't
IT," ne said. ito try to save the old
MANI"
His voice sounded almost indiffer-
ent. His friends looked at him
askance; but Chummy knew that
ne was not indifferent. He was sim
ply not there among them in the
Cafe Turc. His real self was miles
away, with Judy on her bed of
pain.
The little crowd thought and
talked OF nothing else but Judy
during the next three weeks. II
was mid September, but there was
no talk OF marriage between Chum-
my and Steyne; and the others
found this quite natural-especial-
ly Dumond. How could anybody
think OF getting married while
Judy was lying III in a foreign
country?
They were all waiting In a state
o. suspended animation until Judy
canE back.
She came in the fourth week OF
September, and ii was Bruce Gid
cons yacht that brought her. All
her artist friends. with their vivid
imaginations, were glad. for once.
that she had a rich man to help
her.
She was brought back TO New
York 70 a nursing home, and for a
few days nobody could Q her. Ii
was reported that she had been
very well cared for after the fire.
having made a host friends, and
being nursed devotsdly in the
house OF the foremost citizen OF
the town. At her departure she
had been feted like a national
heroine. Crowds had collected all
along the route Of the motor
ambulance. and had cheered and
shouted for the little dancer who
had risked her life for an unknown
old man.
Chummy was the first to see her.
Judy asked for Chummy, and went
on asking for her until the doctor
gave way.
Chummy made her way through
a roomful OF flowers. She still had
that curious sense Of net being able
to feel anything.
Judy was not in bed. She was In
q big chair. heaped with pillows.
She was pathetically small-a little
broken bundle, wrapped In great
bandages. He face was untouched.
but frightfully thin and white. and
her eyes preternaturally
bright with fever and pain; but she