The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-12

W0ut0 come, xOOtlen tO uelloVe nt would have a way of knowing sht was there.
 Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday increased her feverisl longing. She questioned Ton, about the last time he had beer there. Surely he would come again She considered and then discarded the notion of calling Symes to asl his help. Ellen knew in some deer and secret way that Larry would come again to Dreamland. Sh' knew, that she was waiting for him Friday morning she read in tht society columns that Larry liar rowgate was to sail for Europe with his mother in four days He would be gone so soon and sht had no way to hold him. A dozer times that day she started toward times she restrained herself. As the hours dragged by Filler thought that she would die of sheer was dropping and tried to dose hei with a favored tonic but Ellen re. fused to be dosed.
  Sick with misery she went again hope of Larry tonight. If he were ailing it meant no hope at all. She was restless, impatient and an. noyed with her partners. unable tc keep her eyes from straying over didn't Larry come!
 Ga1E i c1n xry I.fv,n IL len was not dancing and did not see him coming up the stairs. She caught sight of him when he stop ped at the ticket booth. His back was toward her. The girl did not move but sat very still as one ir the presence of 8 miracle. In her heart was a sense of exquisite peace.
 He turned. She started from her chair, greeting on her lips room with eager eyes. Their trembling, confused, almost deliri- ously excited girl did not under stand. It seemed to her that Larry flushed and then the warmth left her and she went icy cold.
 
 her. Without sign of recogni- .tion he strolied to Tony's. table She heard him laugh as he asked irony to dance with him.
 For a long time Ellen remained seated. The room buzzed with voices. Even the chatter of traffic and the faint, faraway noises of the street seemed only to accen- tuate the gaiety of the dance floor They were happy, the little 'danc- ing girls in their fiifnsy frocks eager and expectant, excited as they laughed up into the eyes of their partners. Ellen knew that mood. She remembered when she too had been as jubilant.
 Its all finished" she thought impersonally, almost as if she were thinking of another girl. Its ali finished between Larry as if 1t had never happened"
 He was here in this very room and he had not spoken to. her He had turned away indifferently to dance with another girl. Ellen meant nothing to him, had never meant anything to him. The fact
 
 that meant nothing either.
 "He's forgotten me-" she told herself in endless and bewildered pain. I'm no more to him than a girl he might have met on a ferry boat ride I'm nothing to him and Tv thought of nothing except him for months"
 She clenched her hands then and bit her lips, determined not to cry here in this noisy ballroom. be. fore all these people. She tried to think that some of the other girls about her had suffered as she was suffering. She tried to tell her. self that the pain in her heart could not last. No pain lasted for ever. If she raised her head 1t might be better. But she knew that with her slightest movements the tears would come in torrents. She continued to sit, head bent, like a girl made of marble.
 Someone dropped into tht chair opposite. For the moment Ellen was blind and deaf. She heard Larry's voice. He was sitting across the table from her in the place he had so often occupied. As always her hurt pride could not resist him.
 "Larry," she whispered.
 He leaned toward her and caught her clenched hands. He was laughing excitedly as if he himself did not know why he laughed. His eyes were bright as the girls. !.
 "It's wonderful to see you again" :" he exclaimed over and over on long. uneven breaths. His eyes clung to hers.
 Ellen struggled to free her hands. Pride returned and with 1t came anger at this man who had hurt her So cruelty. Larry on1v pressed her hands more tightly. He would not let her go.
 Aren't you glad to see me?"
 II saw you when you came in" she reminded him in a colorless tone.
 "Good God, Ellen," he cried breathIessly, "What do you think I'm made of? Do you think I could talk to you. dance with you, pass the time of day with you, re- membering you'd thrown me over for another man?"
 A wave of color flooded her face. She might have known it was his jealousy and hurt that made him want to wound heS. so cruelty.
 But now I've got you back" Larry was saying exultantly. Irony told me you hadn't" He interrupted himself and looked straight into her eyes.
 "Tell me yourself, Ellen," he commanded her. '"Tell me you didn't get married"