The Coolidge examiner., 1934-04-13

Break. please :" Tom said, look
Ing dark and handsome hand
somer. perhaps, because be was ut
ierly unaware OF his velvet brown
eyes. the lu1exible chin line. the
not too damaging wave In ebony
hair
Then she looked up. her gaze all
blue and misty like the gentians OF
her senator-father's native state.
She didn't look away as Tom
slipped an arm about her waist and
glIded her across the floor. In a Sc
rIes OF Intricate steps.
She just stared into his eyes as
though she had never before seen
him. which he remembered sudden
". was only too truel
The way his heart had jerked be-
meath the brass buttons OF his dress
uniform why confound It
all he had known her an con
OF nights such as this
Il didn't see you at the White
House reception tonlghtl" he whls-
pered to the golden curls nestled on
his breast You're so lovely,
would have remembered"
"Flatterer
The voice was a southern melody.
Toms dark brows shot together.
Il say, you aren't engaged, mar
rled, or-anythlng -
100000 !"
"Swell-elegantl You know
I've got a hunch that
you and I ="
But In the next instant Janice was
In the arms OF Hungary's colorful
Count Condos. and Tom. curslng the
cutting system" OF washlngton's
country clubs, weayed his way to
the stag line
He stood there. inches taller than
any OF the others. his eyes on the
floating grace OF tiny figure In an
odd colored magenta dress.
"rd like to knock JanIce's teeth
out or ring her nose" he wished
truculently. "Just TO warn these
mugs that It's 'hands-ofr' ="
Then the color famed beneath
the gold-edged collar and the veins
In his neck became vivid welts.
SIX times he watched diplomats.
navy and army officers "cut" on
Janice In quick successionl
Six times he watched. with alb
surd Jealousy. her shadow-lit eyes
turn adoringly upon their rapt
faces just the same as she
had smiled upon him So-o-o-o-ol
A filrt! welll Let her. But not
with Tom Holloway!
lie would march down the walks
OF life to dotage and false teeth be-
fore she could make" him.
He crossed the ballroom, with the
Impressive strides OF four years at
Annapolis. beating Stan to Janice
by split second.
You're n filrt" he began, offer.
ing no exegis.
That's lousy thing TO ber'
"Oh-h-h-h" !" The heart break OF
the world was concentrated In that
tiny word.
Il hate a fiirtl II half OF these
men weren't foreign. they'd see
through you" he continued. with
scorn.
Il just cut In to tell you that
no girl like you viii ever get any
where with a fellow like me be-
cause :"
Because - she prodded.
But the reason was as lost as
the lost chord. for Count Condos
Break. please" relieved Tom OF |
Janice before the words could es-
cape his lips.
At the midnight supper. seated at |
a table directly across from Janice, |
Tom listened with depraved curios-
lty TO bits Of her conversation with |
Stan and Count Condos. /,
He had a sudden prurlent desire
to know everything about her. even
10 the make OF her bath soap
Intimate, revealing little things!
He learned among other facts
that she was tired OF the Capital,
that she was returning home at
dawn.
Two thousand miles away!
Gosh :" Not that he cared, OF
coursel
With mounting indignation he
watched her lift her I'ye-been-sav-
Ing-som -time-for-you eyes to Stan
and then to Count Condos; he
her stare at dozens of West
Point men who peppered the crys-
tai reflected whiteness that is the
Chevy Chase clubs dining hall.
But when she turned her lovely,
gistful gaze on him. a look as in
innate as a kiss, he deliberately.
sneered.
The mouth that so many debu-
.antes had sighed over. turned down
IN one corner. curved viclously at
.he other. in a silent execration OF
her.
Janice's eyes widened and her
ips circled into another wounded
'oh :"