The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-25
CHAPTER 20. RIJIEETNGi

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 I'm just remembering that I was supposed to have got married ye1.erday-that's what MT. Match ing meant, of course Jenny said. That what he did when he was 24 and day"
 Doesn't matter" answered Geor- gie. I'm not being jealous now honestly-but I don't think he believes you married Ed at all. He thinks-he knows, somehow, i. was me"
 But then"
 He knows it was l. CThink III have to take special grammar course gaain. Remind me, will you, when I get back?) But he's con tent to accept our statement that it was you, provided the statement is sufficiently watertight. When he used to say to me-Dont le, me hear of your getting married he meant it quite literally. And We won't let him hear it. That 5 that"
 Georgie's old energy had return ed to her. She swept Jenny out of the way and began to burrow in the huge wardrobe for her suitcase.
 Its only for few days, this trip, though I expect It'll be fo@ longer than Wednesday, None 0, that lingerie. It's all new. l, oughtnt to be, but it is" She laughed without merriment. NY rousseau, Jen Wasn't I fool? I haven't even tried it on yet. Haven't had the heart"
 Jenny could not find anything to say. She watched the quicl, hands fielding and packing. They shook suddenly and stopped.
 You think I really don't care much for Eddie, don't you Jenr'
 T think you love him but-in your own way Jenny said.
 But you think I love my job more, Well, that isn't so I'd choose Ed. now, before my job. I realized it when I was being married to him. I knew it wasn't solemn ceremony, exactly, but it was solemn to me wish now that t had been in a church in stead of in that dusty old office. felt that I needed blessing I should have liked someone- sounds sloppy, doesn't ito bless us both"
 Jennys mind went back to the dry words that had declared Geor- gie to be Eddie's wife. She tried to remember them-and all she remembered was that from where she stood in the dingy room she had seen a little quiet garden and bed of snapdragon and a green bench empty under the trees.
 T blessed you both in my heart, Georgie."
 T know it, lanbie. I am all ways reckoning on you" But again Georgie paused in her task and sat back to peer up at her cousin, perched upon the gor- geous new bed. Except this morn ing at the hotel, Jennie. What happened? Where were you? They couldn't find you anywhere and you knew how desperately import ant it was that you should see the Old Man at 10. I told him you were the sort of dreamy child who probably thought he meant ten at night; but I'm pretty sure he didn't believe that, either. Any way, he insisted on coming here and seeing you for himself But what happened that you weren't at the hoter
 Ut was selfish. wanted day to myself" Jenny gripped the lace of the coverlet and tried to say that she had wanted to spend the day-had hoped and dreamed that she was going to spend the day with the man who loved Georgie and who meant nothing to Geor- gie at all. But the words lay like bitter aloes upon her lips and would not be uttered I'm ter ribly sorry. I can't explain" Georgie pressed down the lid of the suitcase and clicked the locks shut. She seemed to be satisfied