The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-01
SYNOPSIS


 \ JANE TERRY comes to New
 home town, Marburg, and espe-
 ciRlly AMY JACKSON that she
 ca make Q success of her life.
 Amy has been her best friend
 until HOWARD JACKSON broke
 tho engagement Jane had forced
 upon him and married Amy.
 In New York Jane obtains
 position in Q real estate office
 and soon Is making a large in-
 come. She has a affair with
 ROGER THORPE, married, but
 tires of him. When he offers to
 bear the expense of their child
 she contemptuously dismisses
 him. him. Amy takes the baby,
 named NANCY, promising never
 to reveal It's parentage.
 When America enters the
 World War Howard enlists in
 the aviation corps and goes to a
 training camp in Texas. His
 mother comes to stay with Amy
 and little Nancy. Amy cOnfldes to
 MARY JACKSON that she is ex-
 pecting a child of her own.
 Howard comes home for the
 Christmas holidays.
 CHAPTER XXXII
 They talked, Mary Jackson de- elared, every minute but never seemed to be tired. If Amy was in the kitchen, Howard was there, too in the nearest chair, watching her when he was not allowed to help, and this last did not happen often. He was no house. e-husband, skillful with dishmop and egg-beater. Cup handles came off when he touched them. If he moved his elbows the nearest dish magically slid off the table to the floor, and if he opened the oven door he was certain to be burnt.
 q don't know why you should be trusted with a airplane," said Amy, "I always understood they were fragile You're the perfect geologist with his hammer when you get into the kitchen"
 Its your distrust in my ability that cramps my style. You think I'm going to break something, so of course I do. Power of sugges- tion."
 "Ah, yes-the greater intellect COilIEOlS lIlo leSSeT.
 Not at all. It's sheer brute force acting on extreme sensitiv- ity."
 He would follow her, laughing, through the rest of the house, in- sisting that the dust could wait, that books needn't be put back on the shelves, that neatness was vice of deadly grip and fatal re- suits. Mary Jackson, busy, too, listened and smiled and sometimes joined in the argument, always, complained Howard, taking Amy's part. This houseful of tidy wom- en!" he lamented, what can one poor man do against them! Even Nancy puts her toys away"
 Nancy cooked her head hope fully at this "I won't put a thing away if you don't want me to-" she offered.
 This nonsense banter went on so long as there was anybody within earshot. Alone, they were serious enough, and silent, too, holding to each other as if to fend off the coming separation. When they did talk it was often about the child that was coming, his future and theirs, always leaving unsaid the one phrase on which the future hung: When the wars over.'
 They did not have a great deal of time alone for from that first night on every soul in Marburg seemed to want to see Howard, the college students and the younger men of the town. All the faculty wanted him for dinners or luncheons. He was their only air officer and that was a power- full appeal to the imagination. The local papers begged him to "tell us something about the Aviation Corps" The various clubs and com- implored him to speak. Small boys haunted the house to catch glimpses of him. He was and feted as much as he would permit; far more than he enjoyed.
 But he refused every invitation possible for him to refuse and when he had to accept he would come rushing home to Amy, angry at the wasted time. They were sure of only one hour together edCH udy, anu that they kept Jeal- ously, no matter how much he was pressed to give it elsewhere, the hour when she was accustom- ed to take her twilight walk. Now he walked with her slowly. She held his arm. They wrapt them selves in isolation. Sometimes they forgot even to speak to people they knew who passed on the path, but no one was offended. A glance at them excused them. As the end of