The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-25
by Julia CIef-Addanls

with the halting words.
 Well, all is serene for the mo ment. You won't let me dowr again, I'm confident of that; no now that you've tackled the mos; difficult part of the scheme, tht Old man himself" She returned to the dressing table, powdered hastily, and combed her hair. Ut: most extraordinarily fortunate tha' ne should have taken a liking to you. Perhaps you remind him o! his long dead wife or something.
 Jenny was jared by the laugh.
 Perhaps he likes me because like him." she said Yes, like him very much. Why shouldn't lI?"
 Only because everyone has al- ways found his absolutely unen- durablel1
 Then it's no wonder he is Lonely.'
 Amazed, Georgie dropped the comb. picked it up, bumped heI head on the corner of the table and knocked over a chair.
 "Georgie, truly Eddie can't stand any noise. You'll see for yourself n a minute how appalling nerv- ous he is"
 Georgie righted the chair and sat down on it.
 What did you say, Jen?"
 At a loss, Jenny repeated it.
 Are you telling me that Eddie is actually in this apartment? Ac- tualy in the kitchen? That he was really there when you told the Old Man"
 of course he was really there Of course he's there now! What in the world makes you think he shouldn't be?"
 Because late last night I rang up the hospital and said I would take a car down and fetch hin during the morning. But sht spoke mechanically, her attention concentrated on Jenny. Then - then-you see, I thought you wert just bluffing the Old Man, jus posing as an anxious wife. And al the while you weren't acting at all: You were really anxious, really an gry?"
 Jenny slipped off the bed She felt faintly, that contraction of the heart that she had endured out side. in the hall; the desolatine fear chat Georgie was changed to- wards her. No, not that!
 GO in and see him now she urged. She took the key from her pocket and laid it on Georgie's knee. He has been longing for you. longing and longing All the more because the idea of seeing anyone else simply terrifies him I'm hoping he's asleep. But if you wake him and say you're only go ing away for a little while anc that yopn never leave him, once you're home again, you'll begin tc cure him. as no one else can. You'll see, dearest, that it is so."
 Georgie smiled faintly. Tht strangeness went from her eyes she leaned to Jenny and kissed her lightly on the cheek. And agail Jenny felt that they had come close together in spite of-Scme' thing.
 You're a quaint, solemn littlt creature, and I'm a fool No, won't wake him; it's far bette that I should slip away and the you should tell him I couldn' stop. Georgie jumped up, and, a. though her movement was sig. nal, there was knock on the out CT door. That's the Old Man valet, Mace, sent to tell me tt hurry up. I can't stand the man he's like a mole; but he's raithel a power in his own way. Let mt pass, honey, what's the matter?
 Jenny could not clearly say wha was the matter She found her self with her back to the door barring Georgie's way out.
 "You simply can't go withou seeing Eddie. You can't. Perhap you don't understand what yol mean to him. He needs you. He been counting the minutes. Be cause he's asleep it doesn't meal that he isn't waiting for you he's only sleepy because they hat Ito give him something to get hin here quietly. Even Gill will tel you that Eddie was so thankful to get home"
 Georgie's face was set. Sh hurled words back at Jenny a though they were stones to hur her.
 And you object to being callet childish. You poor, silly child, vol talk about my never leaving Eddi urill tynt, tall ,,,a y>lao ce