Evening star., 1933-10-21

//@ o you mind my stopping
- here for a while, and chat
ting about-well, about
anything you'd care to chat
about?" How like a boy
Jeffrey Randall was, small boy asking
for a piece of bread and jam. Sue S
gaze shifted from the sea to his asking
ewes. She must be firm, make him
| understand. -,
It shan't mind" she said, "if you will
dismiss the idea that what happened
last night; my leaping toward the rail-,
| was deliberate. I don't suppose you
can realize how important small item
| like a coat can be in the life OF
person. The coat tried to save repre-
sented the savings Of an entire Summer
of pretty hard work. It is a symbol OF
all the things I've wanted-and missed
having. I may never have another as
smart-at least not for long time.
You see, it is something more than a
coat-it is a dream come true
She watched the humor in his eyes
turn to bewilderment, to gravity.
He said: I'm sorry. Muffed the sit
uation completely. You must think me
all kinds of fool I might have known
that girl like you-only didn't know
you then-I didn't even know you were
the girl I annoyed on the boat train.
I'd made up my mind to get acquainted,
though, the minute saw you IN the
compartment. Had q hard time sup
pressing a desire to choke that porter
who let you know you were in the
wrong pew
Sue turned away. Resentment rising
in her again. People who occupied
whole compartments could be cockSure
of what they wanted, what they would
do. Her kind were puppets, juggling on
a string.
DO you always get what you make
up your mind to have?' A breath OF
ice in the question.
| ice or was ignoring it. II hoped this
would be one of the rare breaks-that
somehow or other I'd come to know
YOU. I'm an awful duffer with Fate,
though. I had to sprain your ankle
| to make good. Maybe you'll be gener-
GUS enough to forgive me-"
| Establishments. She must not listen
to them. She was another bauble ne
had not been able to snatch. Because
she hung herself high, he was deter
mined to reach her. Private compart-
ments Specially selected strawberries
in private storerooms Girls on boat
trains. She was one bauble he would
not reach. He'd made up his mind
had he? Then she would unmake II
for him. He had saved her life, she
had thanked him for the service. anc
there was an end to 1t.
There's nothing to forgive" SUI
drawing into the farthest corner OF thl
deck chair. "Oh-oh!" moan escaped
her. She had twisted her ankle. Tit
pain was white-hot dart through hel
body, into her brain. Her lips paled
The sea was blur.
"Sue-steady Relax-if you can
Jeffrey was on his feet, lifting hel
steamer rug, aware that it had become
an unbearable weight. Now the paiI
was subsiding.
"All right" Sue managed, between
stiff lips. Il seem to have made tn
wrong move"
The distress in Jeffrey's eyes, th'
rugged lines in his jaw above q tenset
throat! Sue wanted to cry. Her ex'
perience of last night had been mor'
of a shock than she supposed. Sh!
felt wretchedly weak and Intellectual
This man could feel. He wanted to b.
kind. And she had been barking a
him like a cantankerous pup.
please don't move" he said. It wa
more OF an order than q request. "Shal
fetch your companion-the woman
who is travelling with you?"
''Motty?" Sue shaking NEGATIVE