The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-07
CHAPTER 31. HAGGLING OVER MARRIAGE

T do love you, Georgie nut tered It was as though she. were protesting them both, by saying it.
 Jenny was sure you did" agreed Eddie. He seemed to accept Jen- ny as an authority on the matter and for once Georgie felt to twinge of jealousy. She was relieved to find him so-so simple. No half truths ever with Eddie. Black or white, yes or no; take it or leave it.
 "It's simply and solely matter of money" she blurted out. You may say that we shanit have very much less, even if you can't fly any more. But supposing that lt- tie bit less just turns being hard up into being downright poor? Suppose it means that we can never take any risk or meet any adventure? We wouldn't go on loving, Ed. I've seen big money at close quarters and I know what it can do."
 Tt can't buy happiness.
 MO, but it can buy freedom"
 of a kind"
 Its the kind I mean then
 What are you trying to tell me, girl?'
 That I love you. That I'll give up my job to make a home for you, bnt not yet"
 'When?"
 When my savings are enough to make the difference between slavery and freedom. I mean a reasonable freedom, Ed I'm not thinking any more of dinners and dances. I swear I'm not. I'm not thinking of the kind of life that will keep us in love with each other, I-I want to be kept in love with you, always"
 Eddie was looking anxiously at her. For all his simplicity. for all his take-it-or-leave-it direct ness, he was looking at her as though he understood her better than she dared to understand her self.
 'sWhat-what is it, Ed dear?"
 He reused himself and turned abruptly away.
 Its nothing-I was just think ing about what you've said About what I suppose you'd call your point of view =. I'd better be getting started along, I think"
 Back to the crazy little room of yours?" Georgie laughed 'shak- fly. q don't see whyl Jenny can lodge there, if she doesn't want to stay at hotel, and you can have your room here, as we had planned at first. I've squared Gill and if people think you married the other Miss Revell, well, Jenny doesn't really mind. It's a very convenient thing for them to think" i" She came close to him as he stood with one hand on the door; she slipped her white strong arms up his shoulders
 Don't go," she whispered
 His arms went around her and he held her for "a moment in the embrace she loved; roughly keep ing her against him when she would have moved away, roughly kissing her lips and her closed eyes. She was deaf to the hurry ing stammer of the little clock; time was eternity, anyway, and all the old thrill and the old longing were flooding back into her heart.
 Then Eddie pushed her away and she saw again the strange, considering look that wasn't a bit like Eddie.
 I'm going" he said, "and never you mind where Let's call it Mexico, and let's say I shall be there for year. At the end of the year, I'll be back from where ever it is-say, Mexfco-and we'll see what all this saving and work ing of yours has led to. It's what we should have done if I hadn't gone through that windshield and it's what we'll do now"
 She had won, all along the line! Or-or hadn't she?
 "No, but Eddie, we were to have been together here for a week be- fore you went away; That's why