Evening star., 1934-02-18
TON E. MATTHEWS
Illustrated by II. G. Skremda.

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THE next morning the reveille gng ham
mered Camille into Bills ears; ne steamed
down his throat with breakfast coffee: hA.e Of
warm green gown crept across his plotting sheet
In navigation and obscured the problem: and
her bronze nun Of saucy head noated before
him when he swung into line for parade. Even
at the command eyes right he found himself
muttezing. @Tn ten . mani" He sroaned
Hangover" inquired Hal sympetheticaW
aWorse," said BIN. .That femme dragged
for you"
On his mind? BIN wondered. No: n his
blood. and leading the red corpuscles . marry
chase. In his Me-or was she? He had sd
good-by. At noon he phoned her.
He got date, and another. He told her
Annapolis wasn't 90 far from Baltimore, and
they proved IT, For three weeks dates followed
in feverish succession. Through Il ~, Bun had
. feeling that . ship was sinking somewhere
and that stethoscope would nnd y more
could never be % completely sunk, he knew,
q BIN Nicholas would II he didn't ct . certain
little bronze haired shipmate who deax Gal-
vanic tngles with thousand-watt eyes and
made him Ike t.
IN SUNDAY afternoon after the third we'd,
they we're having dinner as ltt,s sids
tabse in hotel near the academy. Thsre was
green again below the bronze hair. and pulled
out trims at the shoulders. And even aeFua The
table she vas giving Bin that funny hot-3nd-
cold sensation that made him slad pulses had
10 be felt and not seen.
tn ank elafelen And ua,aslnrnnar,s yikIaoank evan
. glance ia their direction = nsat 1T q b1ind
nytng. BIN and Camille accomplished i With
out effort. Gazing at each other acEu0 The
table they leaned closer and presently bsgAn
to laugh.
shalily, -thas I didn't think could b dpue.-
Hef eyes krksd behind lAshas That lad svi-
IDENTIFY forgotten 70 stop growing I've thought
Of THAI too" She said softly
Oamiiles lips trembsed . htt1e. Ihe cd slnk-
ing ship feeling climbed up n Dau aoain and
got IN some hefty punches around Tie heart.
dream, Bin, but There ere leagues md
tathoms and knots and vhAtnoh between u,
and anchors n The. way"
.Anchors can be veashsd- h sd heay1H.
and eeeaes can ne. sf'ppeo. s0egeeeeo -
mine, "and ~ can sttn oet und6 Way."
@You mean leave the aneher. q the hot-
I would Aap my nns feebly and get them
caught In Situations And besides thAt, II
did slip my cable, I'd Be out Of water into the
trying pan, and the free lodging houses and
NO."
AYOu forgot my two mjllious,s said Camille.
.And ycu forget the two ysafs before Jon
get Il, during which we could seaxve vezy
thoroughly. Besides. don't want 70 Be -
dog"
sYou couldn't be-" abe said simply. 'Dst
there must be something 70 d. "a the Out-
sade Let's take . chance on IT.
sBut I've rot sure thing now 2 he cbjected,
md added hopefully. ~there an wofse thinGD
than being . Navy. wife. Camille
sYes9 seme one tried 70 think q = eneel E
think they had TO put him away. Too had
wanted to know the answer" 5s. -sssss 81
sWe'd be happy" said Bill but his heaft haA-
touched bottom and caught nuke in the mud
"of course" !" she agreed dryly. We could
write 10 each other, and re each other once
In . WHILE too, couldn't we3. And there's
Of this talked into me from dad, cf cogRse;
he kept me away from naval men - much
as he could. and the two million revert 10
charity n marry into the Navy be1cre
set IT.. ~ 5.sE
.oh.~ said Bill. his mouth stayed spsn.
-oh.. he said again, "bsing NAVY VIE
would be rather hard On youls ,sg sn
Her eyes grew suddenly shiny and said tlet
be had slapped her. "You think that's ~. H6r
voice vas tremulously husky.
He melted, but then shedow stopped n
millel You hare, too7. m
She pulled herself together. Hello Ray.
Bill don't believe you've met my guardian.
NJ. Gardner, lG1dshipmAn Nicholas"
BIN aruse TO shake hands and his vague
Sision os gray haired Old guardian took onp
@ IT, chin. ~. Gardner vas dask and abo1t
-, sleek and urbane.
he turned 10 Canine. I'm going bAck -
Baltimre tonight IA my ear. Can't we ride to-