The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11
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Hastily susan said. I've got so much work to do I'm going to have q sandwich sent up." Ray departed Cautiously Waring gazed at Susan.
 "The boss must have been feeling better" he hazarded. Susan res turend his look with utmost cam dor.
 "No. he wasn't really" she ex- plained. He looks miserable. But he was SO nice. He told Simon to walt and had all these gathered for me. It was sweet of him, wasn't it?"
 .Waring agreed gravely. keeping his thoughts to himself. He had learned several things in the last month or SO about this girl. Cynic that he was. he had discovered that Susan was to be taken at her face value. What she said she meant and what she seemed to be she was. It was startling but true. Jack Warlng had not understood that at first. Now he was n little ashamed of his earlier attitude.
 Susan began to wish Waring would go. He made her nervous. sitting there drumming on the desk with his well manicurec fingers and eyeing her with that speculn- tive gaze. She put away her hat. thrust the flowers Into an umbrella stand and filpped open her desk. The man smiled wryly, recognizing signs of dismissal.
 Sorry you're so busy" he said smoothly. "I wanted to tell you about meeting an old friend of yours"
 susan had slipped q sheet of pa- per into the machine. Her eyes, in- tent on her work. raised to his for an instant.
 "old friend of mine? Really? Who is he?"
 "Listen to her." the man teased. "For all you know 1t might have been q girl"
 Susan laughed, embarrassed. 'T know" she said, but there was something about the way you said lt that made me think"
 "It's all right" he told her. Ut was man and he was very much interested 10 know what you were doing"
 susan waited for him to go on. She thought impatIcntly that no was being rather silly. Why 50 much secrecy?
 Don't you want me to tell you about itT" Waring was laughing at her openly now and tho girl lifted her great, luminous eyes to his own in wohdermcnt. Quietly she said, "Yes, very much. Please go On."
 
 She was scarcely prepared for the name he uttered nor could she restrain the warm color that flood. cd her checks.
 Ut was young Bob Dunbnr," Jack Waring said And he was ask
 Bob Dunbnr?" As in dream she answered.
 "Yes. The old man wants some sort of Elizabcthan shack out at Half-Dny you know. and Hcnth told mo Co run over and give him n line on it"
 NO. didn't know" Outwardly Susan was com mposcd but that throb of hcr blood told tho talc.
 "He's q handsome devil. isn't hc?" pursued Waring. "Whcred you meet him 2"
 She kept her fingers steady on the keys.
 "At business school. Ifo was taking the c0urgc-.-some whim of his fnthcr's. Ycs. He's very nicc."
 "Vcry nice. Very nIce." Tho fu. tile, foolish words m0ckcd her. As if Hho hadn't been dreaming of Robert Dunbnr's image for months As if every llneamcnt of his splon- did young face weren't burnt on her brain. Very nice, iDdeedi, lM
 sho forced herself to say with desperate calm, He's to Do mar ried. I believer"
 "1 don't know about that" said Warlng with infinite carclessness. "All tho girls in that crowd are after him. l suppose. He has every. thlng---rnoncy---looks---nice disposl- ton. Two heard he's q bit wild. Now you would be exactly tho sort of girl for that young man. You have brains and you're rather easy on tho eyes yoursclf."
 She moved her shoulders imDa- tientiy. Why couldn't the man leave? Her voice sounded heavy nB lend ns she answered. Susan said, "Ab. but you see, no doesn't want mo-"
 She would have given great 'deal to have tho words back. In q panic she wondered If she had given herself away.
 (TO Be COntiDued)